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Perspectives
MCJ Editorial
President Obama and new MPS superintendent face myriad of challenges
Several thoughts come to our minds on issues confronting the Black community locally and nationally. ... Read more
Obama’s Tin Ear on Bernanke---And Company
by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
resident Obama ear can’t be that tin on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. His wink and nod at the Big Banks and Wall Street’s roulette play with public monies is a big reason for record breaking home foreclosures, record breaking bank executive compensation payouts, soaring bank profits, unemployment climbing again in December, a decade high number of Americans in poverty, and Scott Brown. ... Read more
On Harry Reid's ‘Light Skinned’
Comment: W.E.B. Du Bois Was Right
by Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Columnist
(NNPA) - The problem of the twentieth century, wrote scholar-activist WEB DuBois in 1903, is the problem of the color line, the relation of the darker to the lighter races in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.” ... Read more
Signifyin’
‘Morning Magazine,’ an open forum for community discourse, will be missed
by Mikel Kwaku Osei Holt
Depending on your point of reference, the unexpected termination of WMCS radio’s Morning Magazine show this week was financially expedient, shockingly abrupt or conspiratorial. ... Read more |
Pulse of the Community
photos and question by Harry Kemp
Question of week: “What can be done to attract more business(es) to the central city?”
Jacqueline Ward: “Before attracting new businesses, we need to support, stabilize and grow the businesses that has already committed to the central city. Providing more technical assistance and less rigorous financial support.”
Pastor Louis Sibley: “Tax incentives, making land accessible. We need more affordable transportation; people are always in need of bus passes.”
Latasha Moody: “Better transportation and honest leadership.”
Troy Mosby: Give businesses the necessary tools to survive. Make the playing grounds fair for everyone.”
Community Choice: Email your responses at to the editor at editorial@communityjournal.net
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This Week's frontpage articles
Board elects new MPS superintendent
I firmly believe that Dr. Thornton’s prior experiences in large urban districts make him the right match for Milwaukee. During a special meeting held January 22, the board unanimously voted for Thornton, over two other candidates, Stacy Scott of the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland and Robert Alfaro of the Clark County Public Schools in Las Vegas. |
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MCJ Special Focus: What Does Health Mean?
by Dr. Patricia McManus
How do you think about your health, the health of your family and the health of the community? When we talk about health, we usually think of hospitals, doctors, nurses, insurance, the cost and the treatment of whatever condition, we or members of our family have. That kind of conversation is not about health, it is about sickness.
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SDC to manage W-2 application process
The Social Development Commission (SDC) will extend its support of those families in need. The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) has selected SDC to administer the Eligibility and Assessment portion of the W-2 program. SDC will receive a $16.9-million grant to manage the W-2 application process and provide services to W-2 parents. |
Standing united for ALZHEIMER’S
A luncheon program was recently held to celebrate the first anniversary of the Brentwood Church of Christ and Alzheimer’s Association’s African American Community ...
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Smallest survivors pose big problems in Haiti
by Ben Fox and Vivian Sequera, Associated Press courtesy of BlackAmericaWeb.com
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (AP) -- The smallest survivors of Haiti's catastrophic earthquake are growing into one of the biggest problems in its aftermath.
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