Career Youth Development, Inc. (CYD) will hold its 40th Annual Image Awards dinner and program on Friday, Oct. 22 at 7:00pm at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 333 W. Kilbourn Ave. This year CYD will honor the Honorable Vel Phillips as their Woman of the Year and Mr. Reuben Harpole as their Man of the Year. [...]

“Accomplished with the support of people across the state,” Coggs says Sen. Spencer Coggs’ Progressive legislative agenda of educating children, protecting toddlers in day care centers, bolstering the rights of workers, providing justice for the under-privileged and enacting landmark legislation recognizing key individuals and events in the Civil Rights Movement met with success as the [...]

In a ceremony held last Wednesday in the Governor’s personal office quarters, Gov. Doyle put his pen to a bill authored by state Sen. Spencer Coggs that designates a portion of Interstate 43 in Milwaukee as the “Jeannetta Simpson-Robinson Memorial Highway.” The bill signing took place in the Governor’s stately personal office at the Capitol [...]

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 [...]

MADISON – The state Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed Sen. Spencer Coggs’ bill making a portion of Interstate 43 in Milwaukee the “Jeannetta Simpson-Robinson Memorial Highway.” Looking on from above the Senate floor were Charles “Butch” Walton, son of Jeannetta Robinson, Ms. Robinson’s grandchildren, and a busload of other supporters from Career Youth Development (CYD), [...]