African Americans and women have always fought to vote. There’s been a long history of preventing people of color from voting. African Americans knew that the inability to vote resulted in … [Read more...]
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Innovative Effort to Encourage Wisconsin Voting Nov. 8 Offering $10,000 in Scholarships for Creating Best Art for Social Media to Turn Out Voters
Students, other residents, are focus of competition, which runs through Oct. 14 Milwaukee – A competition to create highly effective social media graphics that encourage voting, with $10,000 in … [Read more...]
Reminder to Vote in Midterm Election
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz In a country, that according to Google has a population of 325.7 million people, making one’s voice heard can seem like a next to impossible task. That country is America. … [Read more...]
Get Out The Vote Event Sat Feb 13
Get Out the Vote Rally at the Ezekiel Gillespie Park
On October 21, from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM there was a Get Out the Vote Rally at the Ezekiel Gillespie Park located at 14th & Wright. In addition to addressing the recent Supreme Court Decision on … [Read more...]
Ezekiel Gillespie Get Out To Vote Rally On October 21
Senator Taylor: "Vote – It’s Your Voice" MILWAUKEE – Wisconsin State Senator Lena C. Taylor (D – Milwaukee) and Milwaukee Alderman Russell Stamper II will be hosting the “Ezekiel Gillespie … [Read more...]
Wisconsin voters are headed to the polls to decide a variety of primary races
By Karen Stokes For Sherman Park resident Justine Oates, voting is a family affair. “I learned as a teenager growing up in Alabama that voting was a civil right. African-Americans have … [Read more...]
Photo Gallery: President Clinton visited Milwaukee on June 1st, 2012, to attend the rally for Tom Barrett and Mahlon Mitchell.
Unity Caucus helps to bring recall race to dead heat
There is some exciting news to share with you. The effort of hundreds of volunteers from across the city including those of the Unity Caucus has made the recall race a dead heat. Respected pollster … [Read more...]
Mitchell is working to get the vote out for June 5th
Mahlon Mitchell, Democratic nominee for Lt. Gov., continues to spend afternoons canvassing with volunteers. And this week he was in the Parklawn, Lincoln Creek and Wahl Park neighborhoods, including … [Read more...]