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Overture Center for the Arts 16/17 Season Announced

April 1, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Beautiful - The Carole King Musical, Broadway Shows, Cabaret, Jersey Boys, Overture Center for the Arts, Phantom of the Opera, The Book of Mormon, The Illusionists

Veterans and Consumers of Color often Targeted for Fraud

April 1, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Charlene Crowell, Department of Veterans Affairs, Pell Grants, Student Loans, Title IV

47th Annual ‘On Wisconsin Spring Powwow’ April 2-3

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: On Wisconsin Annual Spring Powwwow, Powwow, UW-Madison, Wunk Sheek

NFTE Turns Inner-City Youths into Black Entrepreneurs, Despite Persistent Challenges

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Curtis Bunn, Entrepreneurship, Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship, NFTE

Was it Civil Rights or a Movement?

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Avis Thomas Lester, Civil Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Montogmery Bus Boycott

Moving the Needle for Low Income Kids of Color

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: AVID TOPS Program, Boys and Girls Club, Michael Johnson

Serve Your Community by Serving as an Election Official

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Election Officials, Job Openings

New Online Zine Brown Girl Lifted a Place for Intersectional Feminist Voices

March 18, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Aarushi Agni, Brianna Rae, Brown Girl Lifted

GSAFE’s New Course Offers a Creative Approach To Learning, Addresses School-to-Prison Pipeline

March 11, 2016

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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ali Muldrow, GSAFE, Jacklin Bolduan, LGBTQ Community, LGBTQ Rights, Social Justice, The New Narrative Project

Where is Today’s Madam C.J. Walker?

March 11, 2016

‘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 […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Entrepreneurship, Julianne Malveaux, Madame C.J. Walker

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