by UMOJA Staff | March 30, 2021 | UMOJA Shorts
Vernon Jordan, Civil Rights Leader and D.C. Power Broker, Dies at 85 Mr. Jordan, who was selected to head the National Urban League while still in his 30s, counseled presidents and business leaders. The New York Times Vernon E. Jordan Jr., the civil rights leader and...
by Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison | March 30, 2021 | Community Profile & Events
Named Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2021-2022 The Wisconsin Poet Laureate Commission has selected Dasha Kelly Hamilton of Milwaukee to serve as the Wisconsin Poet Laureate for 2021–2022. The Wisconsin Poet Laureate plays a crucial role in keeping the arts accessible and...
by Robert Wynn | March 30, 2021 | Community Profile & Events
There’s nothing like a pandemic to unearth festering disparities on multiple levels. While we were already aware of the wealth gap, the education gap, the health care gap, and the incarceration gap, the pandemic highlighted and exacerbated all of these, and then...
by Yvette L. Craig | March 30, 2021 | Community Profile & Events
Sean T. Frazier Dr. Jerlando F. L. Jackson A year of brazen social upheaval and demands for racial justice wasn’t enough to rattle the status quo. The Associated Press found the number of Black head coaches in the 130-member Football Bowl Subdivision has dipped...
by By Valeria Davis | March 30, 2021 | Community Profile & Events
Shenikqua Bouges, MD, assistant professor, Geriatrics and Gerontology. Photo courtesy of UW-Madison Dr. Shenikqua Bouges chose to bypass lucrative clinical practice options to pursue dementia research and academic teaching that will impact and create meaningful change...
