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  By Aaron Knapp  RACINE — As Black History Month comes to a close this week, several community leaders gathered Monday night to commemorate the accomplishments of eight African-American residents of Racine throughout history. Whether a runaway slave, a local teacher or a member of Congress, current community leaders spoke on their research or personal… Read more »

  By The Stream Team   For the first time since 1978, three Native-American tribes are able to prosecute non-Natives for domestic violence committed on tribal land.  The Pascua Yaqui in Arizona, the Tulalip in Washington, and the Umatilla in Oregon were selected earlier this month to participate in a pilot program authorized by the Violence Against Women… Read more »

  By Rep. Gwen Moore  Governor Scott Walker has done it again. He's found a way to seek the glow of the national spotlight for himself at the expense of working and middle class Wisconsin families. His latest plan: prioritize a whopping tax cut package totaling more than $500 million over education and job training, infrastructure improvements, and long-term fiscal… Read more »

   By Sari Horwitz  In WHITE EARTH NATION, Minn. — Lisa Brunner remembers the first time she saw her stepfather beat her mother. She was 4 years old, cowering under the table here on the Ojibwe reservation, when her stepfather grabbed his shotgun from the rack. She heard her mother scream, “No, David! No!” “He starts beating my mother… Read more »

  By Rep. Moore   The bottom line is that Congress needs to focus on economic recovery, growth and jobs, but the frustrating truth is the Republican-led House continues to undermine the economy by failing to extend unemployment benefits, stifling growth with an austerity agenda and shutting down the federal government. House Republicans may have adopted an… Read more »

  WOMEN’S MEDICAL PRIVACY: Voting 192 for and 221 against, the House on Tuesday defeated a bid by Democrats to prevent HR 7 (above) from violating the medical privacy of any woman, including rape and incest victims, with respect to her choice or use of a health insurance policy. The motion addressed privacy issues that could arise as insurance companies seek to… Read more »

   Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-4) released this statement following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress. “Tonight President Obama delivered a thoughtful address, outlining our nation’s priorities for 2014. From education reform and college affordability to job training and retirement security, there were many noteworthy… Read more »

  By theGrio  Who is Gwen Moore? The Wisconsin Democrat has served in the U.S. House since 2005, representing a district that includes parts of Milwaukee. Why is she on theGrio’s 100? Moore has become a leading voice in Congress on women’s issues. When the chamber was debating the Violence Against Women Act on the House floor in 2012, Moore… Read more »

  By Bill Glauber and Don Walker   Waukesha — President Barack Obama took his road tour Thursday to GE's Waukesha gas engines plant, where he touted job training, talked up a rebounding economy and contended that 2014 could be "a breakthrough year for America." "After five years of hard work, digging ourselves out of the worst… Read more »

  Congress is set to approve $9 billion in cuts to the food stamp program even as a record number of Americans live in poverty. By Erika Eichelberger  On Wednesday morning, Republicans won a years-long battle over whether to slash or spare food stamps when the House passed the farm bill, a $500 billion piece of legislation that funds nutrition and agriculture… Read more »