MADISON – Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and City of Madison Mayor Paul Soglin announced Jan. 14 the recipients of the combined City-County Humanitarian Award honoring the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The award winners, selected by the City-County Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, are community members who reflect the values of […]
New voting machines rolling out next month
By Scott McDonell MADISON — Starting in the spring primaries on February 18, your vote will be not only counted, but saved — in the form of a digital photo of your anonymous ballot — for verification in the event of a recount, thanks to new voting machines being funded in part by the Dane […]
Gates conceals real story of “gaming” Obama on Afghan War
By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON (IPS) — Criticism in the memoirs of former secretary of defense Robert M. Gates of President Barack Obama’s lack of commitment to the Afghan War strategy of his administration has generated a Washington debate about whether Obama was sufficiently supportive of the war.But the Gates account omits two crucial historical facts […]
Next step in Uruguay: Competitive, quality marijuana
By Inés Acosta MONTEVIDEO (IPS) — Uruguay, about to become the first country in the world where the state will fully regulate production, sale and distribution of marijuana, will spend the next few months selecting a good quality strain of the crop that can be sold at a price similar to current illegal prices.Uruguayan President […]
FIRST ANNUAL DREAM WEE: Edgewood to hold week-long celebration of MLK
MADISON —The Office of Diversity & Inclusion and the Center for Diversity & Inclusion at Edgewood College is pleased to announce Edgewood’s inaugural DREAM Week — a week-long celebration of the life, legacy and achievements of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Edgewood College is excited to announce the following events occurring on campus next week: 1. […]
Change comes when change is demanded
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. The 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s declaration of a war on poverty brought long overdue attention to his commitment. Today, with one in five children in America still raised in poverty, an accounting is vital as part of a renewed commitment.But largely absent from the debate around the war on […]
MLK: Militant of the 21st Century
By Lee A. Daniels Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hasn’t been this alive since 1968.He’s no longer that visually distant, two-dimensional figure, limited to speaking a single sentence taken out of context and shorn of its true meaning. Instead, the honest scholarship and media commentary considering what King faced and what he did have broken […]
BLACK WOMEN’S WELLNESS TOWN HALL MEETING Part II: Perceived orientation, quality of life
By Anita J. Martin Part 2 of 2[The Madison Times continues its coverage on the Dec. 14 Black Women’s Wellness Town Hall Meeting, which took place at the Urban League of Greater Madison. —Ed.] As the afternoon progressed, a Black woman that works in academia talked about that sense of feeling that you have to […]
Andrew J. Young, colleague and friend to MLK, to keynote 2014 King Holiday Observance
MADISON — The Madison/Dane County King Coalition is pleased to announce that the 29th annual City of Madison & Dane County observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday will feature Andrew J. Young as keynote speaker.Young is a civil rights activist, politician, diplomat, and pastor from Georgia. As executive director of the South Christian […]
Preserving Nelson Mandela’s legacy
By George E. Curry, NNPA Editor-in-Chief PRETORIA, South Africa (NNPA) — A month after his death, there is a bitter struggle to define —and, in many instances, re-define — the legacy of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first democratically elected president.“There is an attempt to do in his death what they could not do in life […]
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