By Cassandra Lans The Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s Black Caucus on Wednesday called on Governor Scott Walker to denounce the outrageous comments about the Kwanzaa holiday celebration made by his key ally and top Republican Sen. Glenn Grothman. Grothman, who made headlines when he attacked the legitimacy of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in [...]

Wisconsinites this week were once again subjected to the misinformed statements of a state senator who used a press release to attack the African American tradition of the celebration of Kwanzaa. While his opinions and the motivations behind them are his own, I would like to correct some of the senator’s factual misconceptions. Kwanzaa is [...]

Sen. Spencer Coggs denounced attempts by Republicans in the Legislature to make 11th hour changes to the governing structure of the Milwaukee Area Technical College that would substitute local control for state control and gut minority and other citizen representation on the MATC Board. “In the waning days of the Legislature’s two-year session, Republicans, led [...]

By State Representative, Leon D. Young State Senator Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) has a very arrogant and annoying habit of putting his two cents where they don’t belong especially when it comes to issues that impact Milwaukee and its Black community. The self-appointed inquisitor of the Black community is at it again. This time he [...]