The stories sound too horrible toThe stories sound too horrible to be true. One woman tells of the boyfriend she loved forcing her to perform sex acts on strangers to pay for the rent. Another young girl says she was kept in abandoned warehouses and was shipped with dozens of other women in the back of trucks like cattle. News reports detail the story of a teenage girl who had her… Read more »
By Nicole Duran **Moore wades into CFPB controversy** On Wednesday the House Financial Services Committee will examine allegations of racism and sexism at the newly minted Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This comes after reports surfaced that the CFPB, and possibly all the financial-services sector's regulators, may systemically… 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 »
From the transcendent writing of Zora Neale Hurston, to the illuminating invention of Lewis Latimer, to local Wisconsin leaders like Vel Phillips and Reuben K. Harpole, Jr., African Americans have worked to improve the Milwaukee community and the nation at large. 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 »
Reprinted by Milwaukee Courier staff Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-04) joined the nation to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “I join my brothers, sisters and neighbors in honoring one of our greatest heroes and strongest advocates for peace and equality. Through nonviolence, Dr. King led the civil rights movement and inspired a… Read more »
Compiled by MCJ Staff The second six months of 2013 was about injustice, from a courtroom in Florida to the hallowed chambers of the nation’s highest court, where an iconic ruling protecting the sanctity of voting rights was stripped of its essence. The second half of the year witnessed the celebration of another iconic moment in American and Black American history,… Read more »
By Jan Uebelherr JPaul "Benji" Johnston, 6, climbed onto a 2-foot-high stool, leaned into the microphone, took a deep breath and made his case. "Why do people hurt other people? Is it because they get mad? Is it because they want something they can't have?" said Paul, the first-place winner in the kindergarten-to-second-grade… Read more »
By Ray Baker The political scene will heat up in 2014. Not only will this year bring midterm elections but also there are many interesting political battles to come. An extension of unemployment insurance is already early session drama and Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has made it a point to offer a conservative agenda in the war on poverty. Equally… Read more »
By MCJStaff The Young Democrats of America released the following statement after learning of President Nelson Mandela’s death yesterday. “Today, the Young Democrats of America pause to remember a leader whose message of freedom and equality transcends race, age or national borders,” said Atima Omara, president of the Young Democrats of… Read more »
