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President-Elect Biden Nominates Miguel Cardona for Education Secretary Campaign Continues to Live up to Diversity Promise

January 2, 2021

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia On Wednesday, Dec. 23, President-elect Joe Biden selected Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona as his nominee for education secretary. Cardona’s nomination delivers on Biden’s campaign pledge to appoint an individual with public school experience, following President Donald Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, who championed private […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Education Secretary, Joe Biden, Miguel Cardona, Stacy M. Brown

Chytania Brown is Back Home at Employ Milwaukee as the CEO

January 2, 2021

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz March 16, 2020 is a day that will go down in history. For the United States, it will be remembered as the day when the coronavirus quarantine began, but for Chytania Brown it will also go down as the day she returned home to Employ Milwaukee. Brown’s journey with Employ Milwaukee began […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Chytania Brown, Earn and Learn, Employ Milwaukee

African American Community Hesitant to Get COVID-19 Vaccine

December 26, 2020

By Karen Stokes COVID-19 has ravaged the world for months and has changed our lives, forever. The virus has ended the lives of more than 317,000 Americans so far. Two vaccines are now available. Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, which was authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday, Dec. 18. […]

Popular Interests In This Article: COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccine, Dr. Anthony Linn, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, Karen Stokes

Black Woman, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, Developed the Scientific Approach to the Coronavirus Vaccine

December 26, 2020

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading infectious disease doctor and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, addressed the African American community’s fears of accepting the new coronavirus vaccine. “To my African American brothers and sisters … this vaccine that you’re going to […]

Popular Interests In This Article: COVID-19, COVID-19 Vaccine, Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, Stacy M. Brown

Contest Allows Students to Pitch Ideas on Improving Educational Outcomes for Black Males

December 26, 2020

By Sam Woods Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. Do you have an idea for how to improve high school education? You might be able to get paid to make that idea […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Amir Williams, Black and Latino Male Achievement Department, David Castillo, Design Your Future, Milwaukee Public Schools MPS, Sam Woods

FACT

December 26, 2020

FACT (Wisconsin’s youth-led tobacco prevention program) the Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network and Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention and Poverty Network would like to acknowledge and thank Acting Fire Chief  for his continued support of tobacco prevention efforts in Milwaukee. Chief Lipski, who recently assumed the helm of the Milwaukee Fire Department, has served as a […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Aaron Lipski, Milwaukee Fire Department, Wisconsin African American Tobacco Prevention Network

LL Coogi’s Top Tier Battle Mentality Meets Meticulous Work Ethic in Nine Project Run with “Cold March 4” Release

December 19, 2020

By Dylan Deprey As 2020 winds down, some artists have thrown in the towel on this asterisk of a year—not LL Coogi. When large stage battle rap events were put on hold due to travel and capacity restrictions, the local battle rapper decided it was time to focus on music, collaborations and building his own […]

Popular Interests In This Article: 93OG Music Group, Album Releases, Battle Rappers, Cold March 4, Dylan Deprey, LL Coogi, Rap Music

In the Spirit of the Season, One Local Girl Gives Back

December 19, 2020

By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Earlier this week, Khamila Vazquez, a third grader at Rocketship Southside Community Prep, visited Children’s Wisconsin, not because she was sick but because she was making a special delivery. Khamila, along with her parents Magda De Osio and Sal Vazquez, were dropping off toys at Children’s Wisconsin for hospitalized children. As a […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Ana Martinez-Ortiz, Childrens Hospital, Khamila Vazquez, Magda De Osio, Meningitis

Back to the Moon: NASA Names Artemis Team Astronauts

December 19, 2020

By Hayley Crandall Last week, NASA announced its selection for the Artemis Team, a group that work under the Artemis program whose aim is to send the first woman and next man to the moon in 2024. “We are incredibly grateful for the president and vice president’s support of the Artemis program, as well as […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Artemis Team, Astronauts, Hayley Crandall, Kayla Barron, NASA

Milwaukee Organizations Join DJ Jazzy Jeff and Local Music Influencers, for the Hip Hop and Health Virtual Event

December 12, 2020

The event is designed to inform and entertain Milwaukee while providing an experience of health empowerment. To promote the importance of health information in the Black and Brown community and beyond as we close the year, Milwaukee organizations are coming together to host “Hip Hop and Health”—a live, virtual panel event moderated by Carrie “Noni […]

Popular Interests In This Article: COVID-19, DJ Bizzon, DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJ Snack Daddy, Hip Hop and Health

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