By Karen Stokes, The Milwaukee Courier Residents of the city of Milwaukee motivated the community with various initiatives to “get out the vote” in the 2014 midterm elections. This has been a tight race for months but Scott Walker defeated Mary Burke, 52 percent to 47 percent. According to the Milwaukee Election Commission, approximately 66 […]

By Karen Stokes, The Milwaukee Courier One week before the midterm elections President Barack Obama shared the stage with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke in front of a cheering, energized crowd of approximately 3500 with 300 in an overflow area at North Division High School, 1101 W. Center St. in the central city of Milwaukee. […]

By James H. Hall, Jr., President of NAACP Milwaukee Branch The NAACP Milwaukee Branch is pleased with the action that Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn took last week to discharge the officer, Christopher Manney, for violating procedures in connection with the tragic shooting of Dontre Hamilton. We have advocated that the department should aggressively rid […]

By Karen Stokes, The Milwaukee Courier Wisconsin voters will no longer be required to provide a photo ID to vote in the November 4 election. The United States Supreme Court voted six to three, to block the implementation of the law requiring voters to show a photo ID. Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and […]

By Karen Stokes, The Milwaukee Courier Dr. Darienne Driver 36, is the first woman and one of the youngest individuals to be named Superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS). Driver is the fourth African American superintendent of MPS. She is following Dr. Gregory Thornton who resigned as Superintendent in June to take the position of […]

By Rod Ritcherson, UMOS Dora Zúñiga, Chief Executive Officer for Big Brother Big Sisters of Dane County, will be honored as the 2014 UMOS Hispanic Woman of the Year at the 34th Annual UMOS Hispanic Awards Banquet Saturday, Oct. 11 at a dinner and reception at the Italian Conference Center, 631 E. Chicago in Milwaukee. […]

By Taki S. Raton The solid cast iron sign measures 10 ¼ inches long, stands 4 ¾ inches tall, has some paint loss and rust with a hole on each side for hanging. Posted some 80 years later on July 11, 2011 by DecorativeMetalWare.com, on eBay the sign sold at auction for $6.50. “In the […]

By Karen Stokes, The Milwaukee Courier On Tuesday, Nov. 4 when you head to the polls, you’re going to need your photo ID. On Sept. 12, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved an injunction blocking the state of Wisconsin from implementing voter ID laws that require voters to show photo identification in order to […]

By The Milwaukee Courier On Friday, September 12, a distinguished panel of guests and academics gathered at the Helen Bader Foundation in downtown Milwaukee to discuss the economic and social issues faced by incarcerated men and women in the state of Wisconsin. The panel included Kalan Haywood, founder and president of Vangard Group; Leroy Maclin, […]

By The Milwaukee Courier I rise today to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act. Our nation has certainly come a long way in the advancing the rights of women. Just a few weeks ago, our country celebrated Women’s Equality Day, a date commemorating the passage of the 19th Amendment to the […]