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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
