By Lindsey Gapen & Elizabeth Stephens March 27, 2015 Vel Phillips Airing for the first time last February, Director and Producer Robert Trondson’s Wisconsin Public Television documentary “Vel Phillips: Dream Big Dreams” tells the incredible life story of one of the most iconic civil rights leaders in Wisconsin’s history. Velvalia “Vel” […]
A Celebration of Women’s History Month
By Brianna Rae March 27, 2015 Beginning as International Women’s Day in 1911 and eventually becoming Women’s History Week by 1982, the designation of March as Women’s History Month became nationally recognized in 1987. Since then, it has continued its legacy of bringing the focus on women’s immense contributions to culture and society […]
Little League Star Mo’ne Davis Named AP’s 2014 Female Athlete Of The Year
By Rob Maaddi March 27, 2015 Mo’ne Davis PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — No one in the sports world had heard of the 2014 Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year until August. That's when 13-year-old Mo'ne Davis became an instant celebrity as she took the mound in the Little League […]
Preparing for 2016 Campaign, Hillary Clinton Embracing Obama
By Julie Pace & Ken Thomas, Associated Press March 27, 2015 (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) “Candidates that get all tangled up trying align with or separate from their party or their president have a very poor track record of success.” WASHINGTON, D.C. (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Rather than keeping him at […]
Male Nurses Scarce but Make More Money Than Women RNS: Study
By Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer March 27, 2015 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Even in an occupation that women overwhelmingly dominate, they still earn less than men, a study of nurses found. The gender gap for registered nurses' salaries amounts to a little over $5,000 yearly on average and it […]
Starbucks Baristas Stop Writing ‘Race Together’ on Cups
By Candice Choi & Tom Krisher, Associated Press March 27, 2015 (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) NEW YORK, NEW YORK (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Starbucks baristas will no longer write "Race Together" on customers' cups starting Sunday, ending a visible component of the company's diversity and racial inequality campaign that had sparked widespread criticism in […]
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Voting Rights Legislation
By Aubrey Koski March 20, 2015 Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of president Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 speech urging Congress to enact voting rights legislation. President Johnson’s speech, delivered before Congress on March 15, 1965, culminated in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the nation’s hallmark Civil Rights legislative […]
Police Deny Using Excessive Force in Ferguson Suspect Arrest
By Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press March 20, 2015 CLAYTON, MISSOURI (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — A spokesman says allegations that St. Louis County police used excessive force when arresting a man accused of shooting two officers in Ferguson are “completely false.” Defense attorney Jerryl Christmas on Monday suggested police may have roughed up […]
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine of ‘Gong Show’ Fame Dies
(REUTERS) — Eugene Patton, the stage hand who earned fame as "Gene Gene The Dancing Machine" on the quirky talent romp "The Gong Show," has died at the age of 82 after suffering from diabetes, his family said. At what were supposed to be spontaneous moments in the show launched in the 1970s that […]
Racism, Hazing, Nude Photos & Vandalism Rock U.S. College Fraternities
March 20, 2015 The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is seen at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, in this March 9, 2015 (File photo by Reuters) (REUTERS) — Cases of racism, hazing, nude photos and vandalism rocked U.S. college fraternities this week, with one of the country's biggest groups pledging on […]
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