By Toni Morrissey, UW Hospitals and Clinics MADISON — The University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics emergency department this year is one of only 17 recipients of a prestigious award from the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA).The emergency department is among those receiving the Lantern Award that recognizes emergency departments that have demonstrated exceptional and innovative […]
U.S. reaction to new immigrant influx could violate international law
By Michelle Tullo WASHINGTON (IPS) — Rights advocates and lawmakers are expressing increased concern over the United States’ handling of the sudden influx of tens of thousands of undocumented child and female migrants from Central America.Last week, President Barack Obama announced that military bases would be converted to detention centres to house the nearly 50,000 […]
Looking to Africa’s LDCs to learn how to save the lives of millions of mothers and their babies
By Nqabomzi Bikitsha JOHANNESBURG (IPS) — Every year, three million newborn babies and almost 6.6 million children under five die globally, but if the rest of the world looked towards the examples of two of Africa’s least-developed countries (LDCs), Rwanda and Ethiopia, they would perhaps be able to save these children.At the 2014 Partners’ Forum […]
Hip-Hop in the Heartland Annual Summer Training Institute provides innovative tools for reaching diverse youth
MADISON — The 9th Annual Hip-Hop in the Heartland Educator and Community Leader Training Institute will be held July 7-11 at the Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St., on the UW-Madison campus.Hosted by the UW-Madison Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) in partnership with Urban Word NYC, participants will be immersed in instruction on dynamic workshops […]
Climate change can change one’s well-being
By Jazelle Hunt, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — For most of the nearly 30 years since Dr. Nicole Brodie’s asthma diagnosis, the athlete and Army veteran has been able to maintain an uninterrupted life, continuing to teach elementary school, coach a children’s team, and remain active. She was partly able to do this by moving […]
Hispanics now make up Wisconsin’s largest minority group
By Kevin Crowe and Robert Gebelhoff of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Hispanics are now the largest minority group in Wisconsin, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.People who identified as Hispanic make up 6.34% of the population, compared to 6.26% for African-American, the next largest minority group."It happened earlier than I thought," […]
Rights groups call for Congress to act on the voting
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) —One year after the United States Supreme Court gutted a key section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, “the right to vote for all is under grave threat,” says Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of […]
Pepsi Cola’s Volunteer of the Month
By Pepsi Cola of Madison
Working to revitalize South Madison Child Development Inc.
Interview with Kaleem Caire Working to revitalize South Madison Child Development Inc. by A. David Dahmer A child from a low-income family hears an average of 8 million fewer words per year than a child from a wealthier family. That’s more than 32 million fewer words by the time the child turns four. This […]
President Obama acts to ease student loan debt
By Freddie Allen, NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGNTON (NNPA) — From 2003 to 2014, student debt in America skyrocketed from $250 million to $1.2 trillion, surpassing credit card debt. As more students, especially Blacks students, rely on grants and loans to get through college, President Barack Obama has stepped up with a series of executive orders […]
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