By Henry Hamilton III Ever since Milwaukee Branch NAACP president Jerry Ann Hamilton won the November 2008 NAACP election, she and other volunteers have been hounded by a small group of individuals determined to disrupt the organization and throw the organization off its civil rights agenda. These individuals have resorted to interrupting branch meetings, publicly [...]

Sen. Spencer Coggs’ bill making Juneteenth Day, or June 19th, a legal holiday in Wisconsin, was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Doyle in Milwaukee before a huge crowd of supporters at the Northcott Neighborhood House. Rep. Tamara Grigsby was the Assembly author of the bill. “Passage of the Juneteenth Bill has been a long [...]