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 […]
Contemporary Dance Confronts Love and Liberation in Marley’s Music and Homophobia in Jamaican/West Indian Culture
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 […]
Inuit Throat Singer Tanya Tagaq to Offer this Season’s Most Unique Performance
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 […]
Can I Kick It? Yes UCAN!
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 […]
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Blackonomics: Black Media Ownership is in a Drought
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 […]
Wei LAB Sponsors 4th Annual International Colloquium on Black Males in Education
Wisconsin’s Equity & Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) and the Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male (BNRC) at the Ohio State University sponsored the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education (ICBME) in Kingston, Jamaica, October 6–9, 2015. ICBME had record attendance as scholars, students, practitioners, policymakers and global citizens gathered to disseminate […]
Pakistani-Lebanese-Halal Family Food Meets Campus Culture at “Madistan”
by Aarushi Agni The corner of Gorham and Bassett is known for being a hub of student living. On game days it is not uncommon to catch students wearing all red, jovially jaunting in the direction of Camp Randall or the nearest sports bar. Here, “Madistan” (pronounced mad-is-th-ah-n), a Mediterranean/Pakistani/Halal restaurant, has made its unlikely […]
Grant Will Work To Improve The Health Of People Released From Prison
By Gilman Halsted A group that advocates for overhauling the state’s prison system has received a $1 million grant to improve the health of former inmates after they’re released. The five-year grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program will link the 160 churches in the WISDOM network with public health experts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison […]
EXCLUSIVE: Russell Simmons Speaks Out on RushCard Glitch
by Stacy M. Brown NNPA Contributing Writer Russell Simmons hasn’t slept much since news broke in mid-October that users of his RushCard couldn’t access their own money and were locked out of their accounts, due to a computer glitch, leaving some unable to make rent payments, pay utility bills or buy groceries for their families. […]
America Nears Sweeping Reform of a Criminal Justice System that Has Decimated Black Communities
by Nick Chiles Urban News Service When a new inmate steps behind the walls of a prison in Georgia, the entirety of his or her criminal record and mental state is fed into a complex algorithm called the Next Generation Assessment. The NGA just might be the future of America’s criminal justice system. This algorithm […]
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