March 27, 2015 Help create a beautiful new garden in our neighborhood! A rain garden is a planting of native grasses and flowers that can brighten up any outdoor space and help keep our lakes and streams clean. The Catholic Multicultural Center and Badger Rock Middle School, in collaboration with UW-Arboretum Earth […]
Starbucks Baristas Stop Writing ‘Race Together’ on Cups
By Candice Choi & Tom Krisher, Associated Press March 27, 2015 (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) NEW YORK, NEW YORK (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — Starbucks baristas will no longer write "Race Together" on customers' cups starting Sunday, ending a visible component of the company's diversity and racial inequality campaign that had sparked widespread criticism in […]
TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® to Celebrate Mothers with Annual Movers for Moms® Donation Drive
March 27, 2015 Items to benefit clients of YWCA in Madison and Rock County As families across the nation anticipate Mother’s Day this May with brunches and flowers, many women in the US will be spending the day in homeless shelters, many as a result of domestic abuse. To make […]
Over 1,000 Gather for Tony Robinson Funeral, Autopsy Released
By Elizabeth Stephens March 20, 2015 Uncle Turin Carter, centre, and pallbearers wheel the casket of Tony Terrell Robinson, Jr. during his funeral at Madison East High School. (Photo by Reuters) Anthony “Tony” Robinson Jr., the unarmed biracial teen shot and killed by a Madison Police officer a little over a week […]
Gov. Scott Walker Signs Right-to-Work Law, Mixed Reactions Result
By Lindsey Gapen March 20, 2015 A crowd of about 200 people and union members gather in frigid temperatures in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin February 23, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Brendan O'brien) Gov. Scott Walker signed a right-to-work law last week at an invitation-only ceremony at Badger Meter north of Milwaukee, effectively ending mandatory […]
Black Men Run: A Culture of Brotherhood, Unity & Health
By Vanessa Jenkins March 20, 2015 Aaron Perry understands the importance of a healthy lifestyle and pushes his fellow African-American brothers to do the same. In 1989, Perry was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 29. In 2004, he took control of his disease and 362 days later became the World’s first […]
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Voting Rights Legislation
By Aubrey Koski March 20, 2015 Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of president Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1965 speech urging Congress to enact voting rights legislation. President Johnson’s speech, delivered before Congress on March 15, 1965, culminated in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the nation’s hallmark Civil Rights legislative […]
Police Deny Using Excessive Force in Ferguson Suspect Arrest
By Alan Scher Zagier, Associated Press March 20, 2015 CLAYTON, MISSOURI (ASSOCIATED PRESS) — A spokesman says allegations that St. Louis County police used excessive force when arresting a man accused of shooting two officers in Ferguson are “completely false.” Defense attorney Jerryl Christmas on Monday suggested police may have roughed up […]
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine of ‘Gong Show’ Fame Dies
(REUTERS) — Eugene Patton, the stage hand who earned fame as "Gene Gene The Dancing Machine" on the quirky talent romp "The Gong Show," has died at the age of 82 after suffering from diabetes, his family said. At what were supposed to be spontaneous moments in the show launched in the 1970s that […]
Racism, Hazing, Nude Photos & Vandalism Rock U.S. College Fraternities
March 20, 2015 The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is seen at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, in this March 9, 2015 (File photo by Reuters) (REUTERS) — Cases of racism, hazing, nude photos and vandalism rocked U.S. college fraternities this week, with one of the country's biggest groups pledging on […]
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