UW-Madison’s American Indian Student Organization Wunk Sheek will host the 47th On Wisconsin Annual Spring Powwow (OWASP) April 2-3 at the Alliant Energy Center Arena. This event will be free and open to the public. The On Wisconsin Annual Spring Powwow provides an opportunity to learn outside of the classroom and participate in a contemporary […]
NFTE Turns Inner-City Youths into Black Entrepreneurs, Despite Persistent Challenges
by Curtis Bunn Urban News Service “My ethnicity has been empowering and encouraging for my community,” she says. “I am the first African-American balloon artist that most children in the region have seen, especially inner-city African- American children. Oftentimes, people will book me because of my color and age. Sometimes, I am even hired to […]
Was it Civil Rights or a Movement?
by Avis Thomas-Lester Urban News Service They fought for integration, equal education and voter registration. There were Freedom Rides, a march on Washington and mayhem on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. There were sit-ins, brutal attacks and stands against violence. In the end, freedom was achieved – at least in part. “There is no question that […]
Moving the Needle for Low Income Kids of Color
by Michael Johnson CEO of Boys & Girls Club of Dane County Every year the Wisconsin Hope Lab conducts a world class evaluation on our partnership with MMSD through the AVID/TOPS Program Their evaluation of AVID/ TOPS which is a partnership with Boys & Girls Club and MMSD. The evaluation revealed positive, and in some […]
Serve Your Community by Serving as an Election Official
The City of Madison Clerk’s Office will be holding a special Election Official Hiring Fair on March 24 from 5-7pm at the Urban League, 2222 S Park St #200. There will be a brief presentation and a mock polling place set up so that prospective applicants can see what tasks they would be performing on […]
New Online Zine Brown Girl Lifted a Place for Intersectional Feminist Voices
By Brianna Rae “Brown girl seeks solidarity in a digital world,” reads the first post on Brown Girl Lifted, a new blog that seeks to be “a celebration of the layered movement that is intersectional feminism — the delicious cake of solidarity that feeds us all.” The blog’s founder, Aarushi Agni, is a recent UW-Madison […]
GSAFE’s New Course Offers a Creative Approach To Learning, Addresses School-to-Prison Pipeline
by Jacklin Bolduan Antonio Mims is a senior at Madison West High School. He has been a part of GSAFE’s Foundations of Leadership (FOL) course since his sophomore year. GSAFE, the Gay Straight Alliance for Safe Schools, functions statewide to provide a multitude of programming, leadership opportunities, resources, and advocacy for Wisconsin’s LGBTQ youth and […]
Where is Today’s Madam C.J. Walker?
‘Let’s Keep Our Entrepreneurial Gene Thriving!’ by Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist Women entrepreneurs have a powerful role model when they consider Madam C.J. Walker. One of our nation’s first female self-made millionaires, her story of combining herbs to develop and manufacture a hair pomade, of empowering tens of thousands of women as sales […]
100 Black Men Create Program to Tackle Chronic Absenteeism
Project SOAR Will Mentor 300 Students in the Madison Metropolitan School District The 100 Black Men of Madison announced its new initiative, Project SOAR, which stands for Student Opportunities, Access and Readiness. Project SOAR is a comprehensive program to lower truancy rates and raise high school graduation rates. The program involves one-on-one mentoring, career exploration […]
President Obama Commends Milwaukee for Winning Healthy Communities Challenge
Citizens Mobilized Over 38,000 People to Sign Up for Obamacare by Mrinal Gokhale The Milwaukee Courier Last Thursday, President Barack Obama congratulated Milwaukee for winning his Healthy Communities Challenge at the Bruce Guadalupe Community School. The White House Healthy Communities Challenge was designed to help communities lacking health insurance sign up for Obamacare. Milwaukee defeated […]
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