by Yvette L. Craig | February 12, 2020 | Community Profile & Events
Music and singing were critical in inspiring, mobilizing and giving voice to the civil rights movement. The anthems were the soul of the movement. Like freedom fighters at a peaceful rally for justice, hundreds gathered in the rotunda at the Wisconsin State Capitol to...
by Yvette L. Craig | February 12, 2020 | Community Profile & Events
Two Black Madisonians Honored in Governor’s Office Some 20 years ago Fabu Phillis Carter toured the halls of Wisconsin’s Capitol building with Sunday school tots in tow. The majestic granite structure unveils a lavishly decorated rotunda, hand-carved furniture...
by Representative Shelia Stubbs | February 12, 2020 | Community Profile & Events
Census Day is April 1 This is an important year for one of the most basic functions of the constitution. We’re not talking about voting in local elections this spring or the presidential election this fall. We’re talking about the U.S. census. The U.S. census is a...
by Yvette L. Craig | February 12, 2020 | Community Profile & Events
It seems racial profiling is becoming a part of daily life and new legislation has been introduced that would make biased and false crime reporting a punishable offense in Wisconsin. Elevated risk of unnecessary law enforcement encounters saturate news outlets and...
by Yvette L. Craig | February 12, 2020 | Feature
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. This epic story about a young woman’s journey of love and triumph was later adapted into a film and musical of the same...
