By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The good news about the sequestration debate is that it reminds people about the vital role government plays in our lives. The bad news is that it will hurt Blacks more than other groups. “Part of what has been interesting about the conversation about sequestration is [...]

Wisconsin State Representative Coggs has announced there will be two town hall meetings on Thursday, May 17, 2012 at the Clinton Rose Senior Center, 3045 N. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Milwaukee, WI 53212, 12PM – 2PM; and Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at the Department of Natural Resources, 2300 N. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, [...]

MADISON – Representative Leon D. Young (D-Milwaukee) denounced Governor Walker’s failure to respond to an invitation to a roundtable discussion in Milwaukee to address Black male unemployment. Numerous attempts were made to engage Gov. Walker and his staff in coordinating a date and time to hold such a discussion. “Simply put, our request for Gov. [...]

Plans to employ 15,000 Black Men in Milwaukee Metro Area MADISON – Representative Leon D. Young (D-Milwaukee) announced plans for a new initiative to employ 15,000 African American men in the Milwaukee area in the coming years. Rep. Young plans to bring together community and business leaders, elected officials, city representatives and other partners to [...]

The American Jobs Act reflects a commitment to strengthen the recovery and help increase access to jobs for all Americans. With unemployment among African Americans at an unacceptably high rate of 16.7 percent – and 1.4 million African Americans out of work for more than six months – the President believes that inaction is not [...]

By John N. Mitchell Special to the NNPA from The Philadelphia Tribune Many in the African American community have wondered why Michael Steele remained a member of the Republican Party after he was unceremoniously dismissed as the party chair after leading a historic rout of the Democrats in 2010. Recently, before a group of African-American [...]

By Al King MICAH, (Milwaukee Inner city Congregations Allied for Hope) held a press conference and protest earlier this week at the construction site of the Westlawn Project, located at 64th and Silver Spring in Milwaukee. The purpose of the demonstration was to declare a “State of Emergency’ for Milwaukee’s Black residents. MICAH’s president Rev. [...]

By Dr. Benjamin F.Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist If there was ever the best contemporary time to advance the economic status and condition of the African American community it is now. As of May 2011, the American economy continues to steadily recover and rebound. The stock market in the United States is up and the largest [...]

For many residents of Wisconsin and Milwaukee County, the recession has dealt a double blow. They have lost both their jobs and their health insurance. A new county-level analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families (WCCF) examines the impacts of the recession on families across the state, based [...]

By Hazel Trice Edney Trice Edney News Wire WASHINGTON (TEWire) – The catastrophic earthquake that killed more than 230,000 in Haiti last January, President Obama’s historic health care bill, and the deaths of civil rights stalwarts Dr. Dorothy I. Height, Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Dr. Ron Walters lead the list of top Black Press stories [...]