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 […]
Survey: 1 In 4 Companies Hopes To Hire In Wisconsin In Next 3 Months
Manpower Group Says Milwaukee, Madison Lead The Way In Expected Hiring by Chuck Quirmbach A statewide hiring forecast shows a slightly brighter jobs picture in Wisconsin over the next three months than for the nation as a whole. Milwaukee-based Manpower Group said 26 percent of Wisconsin companies interviewed expect to add jobs during the second […]
Carl Matthews’ Civil Rights Legacy Set
by Todd Luck Special to the NNPA News Wire from The Winston-Salem Chronicle WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Carl Wesley Matthews, the leader of the local lunch counter protest in 1960 that became the state’s first victory for the sit-in movement, passed away on Friday, Feb. 26. A service for Matthews was held Thursday, March 3 at […]
Yoni Ki Baat Showcases Voices & Performances of Women of Color
Event takes places Thursday, March 31 – Saturday, April 2 by Brianna Rae Originally started in the Bay Area in 2003 by an organization called the South Asian Sisters, Yoni Ki Baat (‘Talk of the Vagina,’ roughly translated from Hindi) started on the UW-Madison campus a couple of years ago by Madison’s own South Asian […]
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