By State Representative, Leon D. Young Next Tuesday, May 8th, is an important date for Democrats, Independents and all fair-minded people in Wisconsin. Voters will be afforded the opportunity to go to the tolls and cast their ballots in the primary recall election for governor. There are currently four Democrats running in the recall primary. [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist The new NAACP Report Card for the first session of the 112th Congress is out and it shows that every graded Republican member of the House and Senate received an F on issues considered important to the nation’s oldest civil rights group. In the Senate, all 46 GOP senators [...]

Since Scott Walker was elected, residents of the Milwaukee community and the entire state have suffered badly. What has been seen under Walker? The worst job situation in the country. Funding for bus systems slashed. Drastic cuts to education and teachers. The end of worker rights for most government employees. A restrictive voter ID law. [...]

By Senator, Lena C. Taylor New numbers released show that Wisconsin lost 4500 jobs in March, even while the rest of the nation slowly overcomes the worst of the Great Recession. I have to ask myself, with anger and concern in my heart, why is Wisconsin lagging behind other states in job creation? We could [...]

Residents of the Milwaukee community have felt the effects of Scott Walker’s war on Wisconsin. As mayor, Tom Barrett also knows first-hand the devastating effects of Scott Walker’s ideological war and how it’s harming this city and state. Since Walker laid out his radical ideological agenda, Tom has been fighting against Walker’s initiatives and has [...]

Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “The landscape of any Tennessee Williams play is the human heart, and I have a cast of people with heart.” -Emily Mann, director of the new Broadway revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire” with an all-Black cast. Like Hollywood, Broadway has historically been reluctant to cast African Americans in mainstream [...]

By State Representative, Leon D. Young On the very day that Mitt Romney thought that he had finally turned the corner in vanquishing his last serious threat, Rick Santorum, in the primary, the ghost of Christmas past made an appearance. The apparition, in this instance, was none other than George W. Bush. Mr. Bush had [...]

By Senator, Lena C. Taylor Since becoming a mother twelve years ago, I have found a new and unexpected concern for the safety of my child and thousands of children like him. This is not to say that men or younger women cannot or do not worry about the safety of children. That said, the [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Between the drama surrounding the arrest of George Zimmerman for the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. and the White terrorists who killed two Blacks and injured five others in Tulsa, you may have missed the news about CNN Anchor Don Lemon, an African American, defending journalists [...]

By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief African Americans are more than twice as likely as non-Blacks to believe that if 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had been White, his killer would have been arrested rather than set free, according to a new USAToday/Gallup Poll. Martin was killed by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain, as he was [...]