Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidates Discuss Equal Protection For Minorities, Women by Chuck Quirmbach Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Rebecca Bradley and JoAnne Kloppenburg made their case for votes on Saturday at the Community Brainstorming Conference, a monthly forum held in a church basement on Milwaukee’s predominantly African- American north side. Forum organizers asked Bradley, an incumbent […]
Historic Black Press Week Captivates D.C.
by Stacy M. Brown NNPA News Wire Contributing Writer Publishers and leaders from the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), a trade group of more than 200 Black-owned media companies, and from the 400-plus member National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP) recently held a historic three-day summit in Washington, D.C. that featured an all-star roster of […]
Japanese Internment Camp Survivors Decry Presidential Campaign Rhetoric
Speakers Warn Central Wisconsin Students Not To Let History Repeat Itself by Glen Moberg An acclaimed central Wisconsin school history program took a political turn this past week when survivors of World War II Japanese-American internment camps warned students about the rhetoric in this year’s presidential campaign. The Walk in Their Shoes program brought the […]
Two Men and a Truck® Seeking Donations for Movers for Moms®
Essential Care Item Drive April 5 – May 5 Items to benefit women in shelter in Dane and Rock Counties Each year shortly before Mother’s Day, TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® hosts its annual Movers for Moms® donation drive as a way of honoring not just our own moms but all moms. Essential care items […]
‘Here And Now’: Cuban-American Offers Perspectives On Normalized Relations
Lucia Nuñez Talks Implications Of Growing Contact With Cuba by Scott Gordon Wisconsin has about 3,564 residents of Cuban descent, about 0.1 percent of the state’s population, according to a 2014 estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau. However, thousands more than that passed through the state and stayed at Fort McCoy via the 1980 Mariel […]
Overture Center for the Arts 16/17 Season Announced
MADISON, Wis. – Overture announced its 2016/17 Broadway and Overture Presents season, which brings more than 100 performances to downtown Madison. The Broadway season: • Twelve years after it premiered in Madison, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera is back in Cameron Mackintosh’s new production and tour, which launched in 2013. The show […]
Veterans and Consumers of Color often Targeted for Fraud
by Charlene Crowell NNPA News Wire Columnist Although the former Corinthian Colleges, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit colleges, closed its doors last year, many of the problems incurred by its former students persist. The now-defunct college is the only questionable actor among for-profit colleges. To date, investigations, and lawsuits have focused on a […]
47th Annual ‘On Wisconsin Spring Powwow’ April 2-3
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 […]
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