• Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
UMOJA Magazine
  • News
  • Podcast
  • About
    • About
    • UMOJA Team
    • Submissions
    • Covers
    • N-Word
    • Privacy Policy
  • Subscribe
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Current Edition
  • Issue Archive
Select Page
Recognizing Excellence at Women in Focus’ Annual ‘I Have a Dream’ Scholarship Gala

Recognizing Excellence at Women in Focus’ Annual ‘I Have a Dream’ Scholarship Gala

by Yvette L. Craig | February 14, 2023 | Community Profile & Events

Sitting was optional. It seems nearly everyone who attended this year’s Women in Focus 37th “I Have a Dream” Scholarship Ball and Silent Auction held beaming conversations, took numerous selfies, or shook their groove thing on the dance floor. Many did all three. The...
Rosa Thompson’s Black Girl Magic: 

Rosa Thompson’s Black Girl Magic: 

by Biana Speed | February 14, 2023 | Community Profile & Events

A Program That Celebrates and Empowers Black Girls to Be Exceptional If they [Black girls] can feel comfortable in their own skin at an age where they’re growing so much, then that sets them up for success in all other areas.” Rosa Thompson is a Madison native,...
39th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth Recognition Breakfast Award Winners

39th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth Recognition Breakfast Award Winners

by UMOJA Staff | February 14, 2023 | Community Profile & Events

Badger Ridge Middle School Bassirou SeckaDeonte PhilipsNaomi LoydNuhanin GuntaRiley HansonWilliam TurnerDeandre SmithJahmall WardKairi SorensonRenia BuckleySamantha Garcia SierraYustin Cortez Black Hawk Middle School Bineta NdoyeChristabel OlubiJacquelyn BoakaiNaomi...
Urban League of Greater Madison’s MLK Youth Recognition Honors Student Demonstrating Leadership, Intelligence and Community Engagement

Urban League of Greater Madison’s MLK Youth Recognition Honors Student Demonstrating Leadership, Intelligence and Community Engagement

by UMOJA Staff | February 14, 2023 | Community Profile & Events

Nearly 500 youth, their families and community leaders visited the Urban League of Greater Madison for the 39th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth Recognition Breakfast in a COVID-safe event. One of the oldest and most well attended family observations of the King...
Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington Descendant Finds His Ancestral Calling

Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington Descendant Finds His Ancestral Calling

by Yvette L. Craig | February 14, 2023 | Community Profile & Events

Celebration of 160th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation Watch Event His hands have touched the hands that have touched Frederick Douglass. Kenneth B. Morris Jr.  is just one person removed from slavery and from the force of character that overcame that...
« Older Entries

Civil Rights 2023

Community Profile & Events

Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington Descendant Finds His Ancestral Calling


Community Profile & Events

Urban League of Greater Madison’s MLK Youth Recognition Honors Student Demonstrating Leadership, Intelligence and Community Engagement


Community Profile & Events

39th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth Recognition Breakfast Award Winners


Cover Artwork

Civil Rights 2023 — Let Freedom Ring


Publishers Note

UMOJA Publisher/Editor: A Journalist’s Silent Unsung Civil Rights Era ContributionUMOJA Publisher/Editor:


Feature

Dr. Jonathan Overby: 


Community Profile & Events

Rosa Thompson’s Black Girl Magic: 


Community Profile & Events

Recognizing Excellence at Women in Focus’ Annual ‘I Have a Dream’ Scholarship Gala


Feature

Donzaleigh Abernathy Shares Memories of Two Civil Rights Pillars She Loved and Shared with the World


Feature

Drucilla Byars: 


Civil Rights Through the Arts

The Artist and His Audacity to Paint


Civil Rights Through the Arts

Dr. Ed Holmes: 


Community Profile & Events

Gospel Carols Still Going Strong


Freedom Songs

Songs of Freedom, Social Justice, Civil Rights and Hope


Freedom Songs

FREEDOM SONGS


Freedom Songs

My Country Tis of Thee. Sweet Land of Liberty, of Thee We Sing…?


UMOJA Shorts

UMOJA Shorts — Civil Rights 2023


Community Profile & Events

Urban League of Greater Madison Young Professionals 10th Anniversary:


  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress