By LaKeshia N. Myers Last week, I had the honor of attending the kickoff for “No Menthol Sunday,” The Center for Black Health & Equity’s annual call to action highlighting the detrimental … [Read more...]
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Time is Money: Exploring the 21st Century Poll Tax Levied by the Georgia G.O.P.
By LaKeshia N. Myers When I was a classroom teacher, to explain the inequity of poll taxes and other ballot-blocking measures that were used in the Jim Crow south, I would give my students the … [Read more...]
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The Referendum Was the Tip of the Iceberg: Why You Need to Care about the Teacher Shortage
By LaKeshia N. Myers During the April 2024 election, 103 school districts posed referendum questions to voters. Plainly put, school districts asked voters to pay more money to support schools; … [Read more...]
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Beyond the Dream: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
By LaKeshia N. Myers As a teacher, I have always striven to tell my students the truth. That truth often includes humanizing historical figures in order to show students that everyday people … [Read more...]
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Broadband Expansion Here in Wisconsin
By LaKeshia N. Myers Wisconsin’s students – from my hometown in Milwaukee to rural Northern Wisconsin – rely on fast, quality broadband internet to succeed. The internet is a portal that allows … [Read more...]
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Time’s Up: As the Legislative Session Ends Abruptly, There’s More Work to Be Done
By LaKeshia N. Myers Did you know the 2023-24 legislative session was over? In a mere fifteen months, the legislature has introduced, heard, and passed all of the bills for this biennium. How … [Read more...]
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Kidneys: Small But Mighty
By LaKeshia N. Myers Did you know March is National Kidney Month? Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is a serious condition that affect more than thirty million adults in the United States. According … [Read more...]
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Instead of Doing Right, They’d Rather See Us Gone
By LaKeshia N. Myers Mississippi has three public historically Black colleges—Alcorn State University (1871), Jackson State University (1877), and Mississippi Valley State University (1950). … [Read more...]
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Biden-Harris Administration Invests in Wisconsin’s Future Generation While Trump Threatens to Destroy It
By LaKeshia N. Myers Last week, First Lady Jill Biden visited Wisconsin to celebrate an exciting new investment in Wisconsin’s workforce – and future. In January, the Biden-Harris administration … [Read more...]
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Literacy: The Next Civil Rights Frontier
By LaKeshia N. Myers Wisconsin, we have a problem. A reading problem; according to Wisconsin Literacy, one in seven Wisconsin adults struggle with low literacy. Meaning they struggle to … [Read more...]
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