by Daniel Sims | November 14, 2019 | Community Profile & Events
The Dane County Branch of the NAACP celebrated its sixth annual Freedom Fund Dinner on Saturday, Sept. 28 at the Madison Concourse Hotel & Governor’s Club. The dinner highlighted the work the local branch has accomplished in the last year, while setting the stage...
by Yvette L. Craig | November 14, 2019 | Community Profile & Events
It’s not every Friday night that stilt walkers, spoken word artists and community service awards take place at the same event. But on a windy autumn night in October, all three, came together as the Urban League of Greater Madison celebrated another year of providing...
by Yvette L. Craig | November 14, 2019 | Feature
The 2020 Democratic National Convention will be in Milwaukee this summer, bringing an estimated 50,000 people set to descend on a city. Two-thousand events are expected to take place in southeast Wisconsin including meetings, rallies, meals and social events. Selected...
by Yvette L. Craig | November 14, 2019 | Feature
by Whitelaw Reid | November 14, 2019 | Feature
During presidential campaigns, politics is a major topic in African American common spaces such as barbershops, salons, churches, neighborhoods, and now, Black Twitter. Social media can, in many cases, sway Black voters’ decision of who to back on their ballots. This...
