By Jazelle Hunt, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — The relationship between melanin and vitamin D — the nutrient that sunlight provides — may explain why African American, Caribbean, and men of African ancestry have the highest rates of prostate cancer than anyone in the world, according to a new study.The study by a team of […]
City of Madison Community Development Division seeks proposals for 2015-2016 Funding
Lack of vitamin D linked to prostrate cancer in blacks
Resilience Center Community Health and Wellness Fair: Building a healthy community
Resilience Center Community Health and Wellness Fair: Building a healthy community by A. David Dahmer The second annual Resilience Center Community Health and Wellness Fair will be held this Saturday, May 10, and is a chance for the community to not only learn about how to live healthy lives, but to learn about all of […]
Jerome Dillard named new County Jail Re-entry Coordinator
MADISON — Dane County has hired Jerome Dillard to serve as its new Jail Re-entry Coordinator, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced May 5. Parisi included the creation of the new position, located in the county’s Department of Human Services, in his 2014 budget to better connect individuals transitioning from the criminal justice system back […]
Four decades of service at City Hall
MADISON — A retirement party was held at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center May 1 for Wanda Fullmore, who has worked in City Hall for five different mayors —– Paul Soglin, Joe Sensenbrenner, Joel Skornicka, Sue Bauman, and Dave Cieslewicz. Since 1975, Fullmore was the first person you'd see or talk to if […]
From Detroit to LA, NAACP prez has history of ‘selling out’
By Zenobia Jeffries, Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen Leon Jenkins, the Los Angeles branch NAACP president who awarded LA Clippers basketball team owner Donald Sterling with a Lifetime Achievement award among other commendations, lived, worked and won notoriety in Detroit.Jenkins was a 36th District Court judge between 1984 and 1987. During that […]
UW Odyssey Program graduation set for May 7
Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney announces re-election campaign
By Dane County Media MADISON — Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney, who was overwhelmingly elected to a second term in 2010 with 71% of the vote, has announced he is seeking re-election this November 2014.“Working together, we’ve improved public safety, cracked down on drunken driving, and eliminated overcrowding in the jail,” Mahoney said. “But there […]
Where guns and gangs meet orange velour
By Kim-Jenna Jurriaans NEW YORK (IPS) — It’s four o’clock on a sunny afternoon in Harlem and 19-year-old Solideen Rann is spread out on a plush hand-me-down couch inside an old glass-and-aluminum storefront on Malcolm X Boulevard.His body language is making no effort to conceal he’s only reluctantly participating in a conversation with Dedric […]
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