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Family & Reading Connections Programs Help Children of Incarcerated Parents

November 13, 2015

Family Connections and Reading Connections are programs run by Madison Urban Ministry that work to help children maintain contacts with family members who are incarcerated. Both programs are funded by donations and grants and are free to people making use of them and work to help maintain connections so a prison sentence doesn’t mean an […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Family Connections, Madison Area Urban Ministry, Reading Connections, Taycheedah Correctional Institution

Milwaukee’s African-American Arts Scene Gets Boost From New Partnership

November 13, 2015

Milwaukee Rep Offers Residency To Bronzeville Arts Ensemble by KP Whaley Many African-American-led theaters around the country are struggling to stay afloat so the recent announcement that the Milwaukee Repertory Theater offered residency to the Bronzeville Arts Ensemble for their next season couldn’t come at a better time. “We’re at a crisis point, I do […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Bronzville Arts Ensemble, KP Whaley, Malkia Stampley, Milwaukee Repertory Theater

County Approves Purchase of Property for Day Resource Center

November 13, 2015

The Dane County Board of Supervisors approved the purchase of a property for use as a daytime shelter and resource center for the homeless in the 1300 block of East Washington Avenue. By a 30-4 vote, the County Board approved spending $1.4 million to buy properties at 1314, 1316, 1318 and 1326 East Washington Avenue […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Dane County Board of Supervisors, Daytime Shelter, Homelessness, Resource Center

2015 Will Become The Most Productive Year for Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County

November 13, 2015

by Michael Johnson CEO of BGC Dane County In 2015 the Club graduated 113 seniors; more than 70% are students of color and all were accepted into college. BGC now has the largest public/private partnership in both the Madison and Verona School Districts with more than 1500 students enrolled in their college prep programs. UW […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Boys and Girls Club, Boys and Girls Club of Dane County BGCDC, Michael Johnson

ObamaCare Improves Health of Black America

November 13, 2015

by Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Black Americans continue to face serious disparities in education, employment, and in economic development. While over 45 million Black Americans have made some type of progress during the past seven years of the Obama Administration, there is still much more to be done to end the vast racial […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Affordable Care Act ACA, Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., Health Insurance, Obamacare

Black Churches Show Support for Obama’s Environment Plan

November 13, 2015

by Savannah Harris Special to the NNPA News Wire from HU News Service WASHINGTON – Leaders of the nation’s major Black churches — representing nearly 13 million African-American members — presented over 10,000 pastors’ signatures to Congressional Black Caucus members in support of President Obama’s Clean Power Plan. The leaders said they are making the […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Churches, Congressional Black Caucus CBC, Environmental Justice, George Battle, Samuel C. Tolbert Jr., Savannah Harris, Timothy Tee Boddie

Contemporary Dance Confronts Love and Liberation in Marley’s Music and Homophobia in Jamaican/West Indian Culture

November 13, 2015

Choreographers Chris Walker and Kevin Ormsby will tour “FACING Home: Love & Redemption,” a contemporary dance concert that investigates the global impact of Bob Marley’s music—its expression of humanity’s struggle and inspiration toward love, redemption and hope—and the active, deep-rooted homophobia in Jamaican/West Indian Culture. The tour opens in Wisconsin at the Margaret H’Doubler Performance […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Dance, Facing Home, Performances, Performing Arts

Inuit Throat Singer Tanya Tagaq to Offer this Season’s Most Unique Performance

November 13, 2015

This season’s most unique performance is about to land at the Wisconsin Union Theater Saturday, November 21, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. in the Fredric March Play Circle, when Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq shares her incomparable performance, set to the 1922 film Nanook of the North, with the Madison community. Tanya Tagaq picked up an […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Concerts, Performances, Tanya Tagaq

Can I Kick It? Yes UCAN!

November 6, 2015

Madison’s 6th Annual Hip Hop Awards to Take Place This Saturday by Rob Franklin Hip Hop and it don’t stop. The 6th Annual Madison Hip Hop Awards will take place on Saturday, November 7th at The BarrymoreTheatre. The event is sponsored by the Urban Community Arts Network (UCAN). The awards show is an effort made […]

Popular Interests In This Article: EMCC Madison Breakers, Hip Hop Awards, Hip-Hop, Rob Franklin, Urban Community Arts Network UCAN

EXCEPT WHERE INDICATED, THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED ON THIS PAGE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THOSE OF THE MADISON TIMES

Blackonomics: Black Media Ownership is in a Drought

November 6, 2015

by James Clingman NNPA Columnist In war, one of the first things the enemy does is destroy his adversary’s ability to communicate within its ranks. Chaos likely ensues if a fighting force cannot communicate internally. Individual soldiers end up doing their own thing, left to their own devices; they make decisions based on their individual […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Media Ownership, Black Owned Media, Blackonomics, James Clingman

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