by Freddie Allen NNPA News Wire Senior Correspondent Minority and low-income students are less likely to have consistent access to effective teachers between preschool and the third grade than students from high-income households, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Washington, D.C-based think tank. Rachel Herzfeldt-Kamprath, a researcher at […]
Shattering the Stigma: Mother of Murder-Suicide Perpetrator Speaks Out
By: Dr. Jasmine Zapata, MD This month marks the 1 year anniversary of a tragic event that gripped the hearts of Wisconsinites and others around the nation. On January 2, 2015, Morgan Faye Slaight, age 27, shot her two young sons, Jaxon and Joseph, as well as herself in the head. One son, Jaxon, died […]
Local health care providers improve Dane County’s health with more than office visits and prescription pads
Caring for the Community Getting and staying healthy takes a lot of work. For some area residents, it’s more than just planning healthy meals and fitting in the recommended daily exercise. Unemployment, lack of transportation, lack of financial stability and more can make it nearly impossible for some to access the health care they need […]
Foreclosure Crisis Still Hammers Black Americans
By Avis Thomas Lester Urban News Service Affluence is no antidote to foreclosure. In Prince George’s County, Maryland — one of the United States’ wealthiest majority-black jurisdictions — the foreclosure crisis has hammered several solidly middle-class communities. These include Perrywood, a neighborhood of two-story homes near the county seat in Upper Marlboro; Marleigh in Bowie, […]
New Partnership To Support Mental Health of College Students of Color
The JED Foundation (JED) and the Steve Fund, two leading mental health organizations that focus on the well-being of young people of color, announced a joint plan to provide colleges and universities with practices for improving support for the mental health and emotional well-being of America’s college students of color. The announcement is accompanied by […]
Michigan Poisons Poor to Save a Few Bucks
By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. NNPA News Wire Columnist Flint, Michigan is impoverished. The auto plants have closed. Forty percent of the city’s 100,000 residents live below the poverty level. It is majority minority. It’s been in fiscal crisis since 2011, with the state taking over budgetary control and a state-appointed “emergency manager” driving policy […]
Director of Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Visits Madison in February
Tuesday, February 9 at 6:30 at Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin St. In the late 1960s, as change was coming to America — as cities were burning, Vietnam was exploding, and disputes raged over equality and civil rights — a new revolutionary culture was emerging seeking to drastically transform the system. The Black Panther Party […]
CFPB Cracks Down on Illegal Debt Collections
By Charlene Crowell NNPA News Wire Columnist As holiday revelers toasted the season, a key federal regulator took two steps to ensure that 2016 would bring an important change for consumers harassed by illegal debt collector actions. On December 16 and its third action against a large national payday lender, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau […]
King Holiday Events
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?” Each year, Americans across the country answer that question by coming together on the King Holiday to serve their neighbors and communities. The MLK Day of Service is a part of United We Serve, the […]
Pocan Invites Ald. Samba Baldeh, Local Muslim Community Leader, to State of the Union Address
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-02) announced today that he will bring Madison Ald. Samba Baldeh as his guest to next week’s State of the Union Address to show solidarity with the American-Muslim community at a time of escalating bigotry and discrimination. Rep. Pocan joins other Members of Congress, including Reps. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz […]
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