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Storytelling Used to Educate Vulnerable Children and Families about Trafficking

August 31, 2019

By Shamim Sarif Around the world – and close to home – as many as four million people each year are trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation. Sadly, about 50% of those are children. Now, Headwaters Relief Organization, an international non-profit disaster relief organization, is teaming with me to raise funds to educate communities […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Book Reviews, Human Trafficking, Shamim Sarif, The Athena Protocol

Butterfield Introduces ‘BRIDGE Act’ to Push STEM Education, Employment

August 31, 2019

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The United States will need an estimated 1 million more STEM professionals by 2022 to keep up with workforce demands, according to U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.). To help meet that need Butterfield has introduced HR 1586, which would amend the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Organization […]

Popular Interests In This Article: BRIDGE Act of 2019, G.K. Butterfield, Stacy M. Brown

Sen. Tammy Baldwin Met with the Water Council and Wisconsin Manufacturers in Milwaukee to Discuss Emerging Water Technology

August 24, 2019

By Nyesha Stone Earlier this week, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin sat down with the Water Council and Wisconsin manufactures to discuss innovative solutions pertaining to Wisconsin’s drinking water. “We have significant water challenges across the state…and the type of innovation that can come from these types of partnerships are quite amazing,” said Baldwin. According to […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Nyesha Stone, Tammy Baldwin, Water Council

‘Weeping Time’ Author, Historian Anne C. Bailey Discusses Slave Auctions and her Involvement in NY Times’ 1619 Project

August 24, 2019

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Binghamton University Historian Anne C. Bailey has studied slavery and the plight of African Americans for quite some time. She has read books about the history of slavery and watched the 1970s television mini-series, “Roots,” the story of author Alex Haley’s enslaved ancestors. As commemorations of the […]

Popular Interests In This Article: 1619 Project, Anne C. Bailey, Stacy M. Brown, The Weeping Time

Hip-Hop Week Milwaukee is Back in its Second Year, Aug 19-25

August 24, 2019

By Nyesha Stone All week long, Milwaukee has been on a mission: to celebrate hip-hop. Milwaukee is the first city in the country to dedicate an entire week to honoring hip-hop. Put on by Ald. Khalif Rainey, the city has been flooding with different events tailored to hip-hop all week long. Rainey appeared on the […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Hip-Hop Week, Khalif Rainey, Nyesha Stone

Pension Contributions Among Challenges Raised During Preliminary Budget Hearing

August 24, 2019

By Karen Stokes The City of Milwaukee held the 2020 Preliminary Budget Hearing on Thursday, Aug.15 at the Zeidler Municipal Building. The purpose of the public meeting was to discuss the approximately $1.3 billion 2020 City of Milwaukee budget. Mayor Tom Barrett, Finance and Personnel Committee chair Alderwoman Milele Coggs and budget director Dennis Yaccarino […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Karen Stokes, Milele A. Coggs, Milwaukee City Budget, Tom Barrett

Confidence is Key: Larry Bull Levels Up on Sophomore Album, “The Paper Route”

August 24, 2019

By Dylan Deprey Extra!! Extra!! Read all about it!! Larry Bull’s “The Paper Route” is out! The Milwaukee rapper’s sophomore album is more than double entendre. “The Paper Route” is a witty play on a small-time job, and the actual race for riches, but it also lays out a lesson for what can happen when […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Battle Rappers, Dylan Deprey, Larry Bull, The Paper Route

Cory Booker Talks Gun Violence Causes and Reform with Elected Leaders at “Milwaukee Rise” Rally

August 17, 2019

By Mrinal Gokhale The issue of gun control has been controversial in the United States for years, but especially lately when two mass shootings took place this month. On Sunday, August 11, presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) discussed his experiences and solutions for gun violence at Sherman Phoenix, 3536 W. Fond Du Lac Ave. […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Cory Booker, Khary Penebaker, Mandela Barnes, Milwaukee Rise, Mrinal Gokhale, Rallies

Milwaukee DNC 2020 Host Committee Announced New Hire for Diversity Inclusion

August 17, 2019

By Nyesha Stone With the Democratic National Convention being less than a year away, a lot of local businesses are still wondering how they can get involved. As the president of the local organizing committee for the 2020 DNC, Liz Gilbert has repeatedly stated that the host committee is committed to making sure the DNC […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Democratic National Convention, Lafayette Crump, Nyesha Stone

Three Day Event Planned to Commemorate First African Landing in Virginia

August 17, 2019

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia In August 1619, more than 20 Africans landed at Old Point Comfort, the present-day Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., and were forced into labor as slaves. That was the beginning of the slave trade in America. This month, 400 years after that humiliating and disgraceful day, the […]

Popular Interests In This Article: First African Landing, Stacy M. Brown

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