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	<publisher>The Madison Times</publisher>
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	<news>
	<title><![CDATA[President Obama prepares to fight for judicial nominees]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; When President Obama announced his nominees to fill vacancies at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, everyone watching knew that he was in for a fight.
A report published in March by the Alliance for Justice, an organization that promotes ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Donald Driver to highlight BBBS Annual Gala]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
People around town are excited because it was recently announced that Donald Driver, the Green Bay Packers' all-time leading wide receiver, a Super Bowl champion, and quot;Dancing with the Starsquot; winner, will be the special guest at the Big Brothers Big Sisters 2013 Annual Gala July 13 at th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A movement in memory of Trayvon Martin]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
As trial for killer of Black teen proceeds in Florida, organizers demanding justice and an end to racially based targeting of youth




While the fight for justice in the Trayvon Martin case goes forward in the legal system, another fight is waging in the streets.
Activists are challenging t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Home buyerrsquo;s education class coming to Boys amp; Girls Club]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Fewer blacks own their home now than any other racial or ethnic group which makes it even more difficult for them to achieve financial security and attain wealth. Two people who grew up a couple blocks from each other on Madison's south side want to change that with a home buyer's education cl...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on a quarter century of marriage]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

nbsp;Twenty-five years ago today life changed for me. I exchanged vows with a beautiful and smart woman whose college roommate, a mutual friend, introduced us at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 
Jackie was a popular track athlete at UW and reigning 1982 National Junior Olympics champion i...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane Countyrsquo;s youth Governance torch passed]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Concussions: More Than Just a Sports Concern]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[African American Genealogy Conference: Looking For A Home June 21-22 at Pyle Center]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;nbsp; Experience a two-day adventure into African-American genealogy, featuring internationally known genealogist, author and lecturer, Tony Burroughs.nbsp; Wisconsin Historical Society and the Madison African-American Genealogy Writing Group will host the African-American Genealogy...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Superintendent completes visits to all schools, reports on entry process]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Entry Plan Report summarizes strengths, challenges, and planning efforts



MADISON mdash; After two months on the job, Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham has released a report summarizing what shersquo;s learned during her entry process and previewi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence becomes End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; With state leaders, domestic violence victim advocates and survivors on hand, the Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic Violence (WCADV) announced its name will now be End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin at a press conference on June 17.
ldquo;Our new name aligns our identity with our miss...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Poll says many African-Americans are more unhappy]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[York-based Harris Interactive, an international market research firm and polling agency.
The agency polled more than 2,300 Americans in April using an online survey and reported that only about one-third of those polled claimed to be ldquo;very happyrdquo; with their lives, but that African-Ameri...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Washington mulls durprise Rouhani victory in Iran vote]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON D.C. mdash; The surprise victory of Hassan Rouhani in Iranrsquo;s Jun. 14 election has provoked a range of reactions here, ranging from cautious optimism about possible deacute;tente between Tehran and Washington to outright rejection of the notion that his presidency will produce any ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Juneteenth is worth celebrating]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Did you know that the official African-American holidays are: Kwanzaa, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth? What do you, and your family, do to celebrate Juneteenth? Also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, the Juneteenth holiday is an abbreviated form of ldquo;June Nineteenth.rdquo;...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks more willing to make privacy concessions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The next major showdown in Washington may not be over how best to reduce the deficit or involve another Obama cabinet appointment. Look for sparks to fly over the presidentrsquo;s constitutional prerogative to nominee federal judges and the Senatersquo;s responsibility to either confirm or rejec...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Health disparities: A function of assets, access and attitudes]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Last week, I attended a ldquo;think tankrdquo; conversation with leaders of the Rodham Institute, a newly- established center at George Washington University is dedicated to reducing health disparities in Washington, D.C.nbsp; This is an important effort because Washington is such a divided cit...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of June  19, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[June 19, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[June 12,  2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The family of Mann Scholars continues to grow, achieve]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


The Mann Scholars Ceremony was celebrated at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery Town Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus June 7.nbsp; 
ldquo;It's a thrill to welcome you all here today to celebrate our new Mann Scholars and our graduating seniors,rdquo; said Madison Metr...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New GirlTrek Midwest Rep battling black womenrsquo;s health crisis]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[   Black women are facing a health crisis in the United States. They are dying earlier at higher rates from preventable diseases like heart disease, stroke, and diabetes than any other group of women in America.  Vanika Mock knows this very well and that is why she is a woman inspired mdash; and sh...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Centrorsquo;s Fiesta will show off local performance acts and talents]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[   On June 22, Fiesta Hispana will once again be the place for people in Madison to go to celebrate the many cultures of the many countries of Latin America while bringing people together on Madison's south side. For the second year in a row, the event will be held in the large area behind Centro Hi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks optimistic about finances]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;nbsp; Members of the Black middle class are more optimistic about their finances than they were a year ago, according to a recent study by the research arm of Prudential Financial Inc.,
Prudential surveyed more than 1100 Blacks on a wide range of financial topics in Marc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Parks#039; Place/Ray Allen:  ldquo;To live in hearts we leave behind is not to dierdquo;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[



Their impact on the community was immense.nbsp; They had a successful business and a marriage that lasted four decades. They had touched so many lives that it would take pages to list the names.
Alfonso and Jan Studesville had built something special.nbsp; Special to them and special to M...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on Janet Studesville]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The words ldquo;Rest in Peacerdquo; are often said too lightlyhellip;
This community in its shock and loss, says them truly and deeply.
Jan, a courageous woman of substance mdash; sparkling smile, warm, generous, funny, hard-working, beautifulhellip; such a gift will live on.nbsp; 
We all k...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Eat, Play, Bike]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Movie Review:  ldquo;Twenty Feet From Stardomrdquo;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


They can sing a joyful noise. In pitch-perfect harmony. Never missing a beat. Yet they rarely take center stage. Why? Background singers, are the unsung heroes of music. Without them, lead singers sound hollow. Now their voices are heard, in an enlightening documentary that is as illuminating ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Heeding the messages of our ancestors]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
You would think that since the end of slavery and through the ensuing years Black people in this country would be further along in our economic evolution than we are today.nbsp; You would think there would be no need for the economic empowerment messages that other columnists and I write about on...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Experts converging on Madison for ldquo;Paths to Healing: Conference on Child Sex abuse Survivalrdquo;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;Several Wisconsin organizations have partnered to put together a one-day conference on surviving childhood sex abuse that will be held at the Sheraton Hotel in Madison on Thursday, June 20.
Sponsored by Solidarity with Child Sex Abuse Victims/Survivors, Rape Crisis Center, Wisconsin ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Literacy Network Celebrates 39 Years]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Literacy Network celebrates 39 years of service to our community this week. In that time, they have served tens of thousands of adults and families.
Literacy Network has taught reading, writing, and speaking skills to Dane County adults and families so they can achieve financial ind...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Spanish language radio station expands to Rockford]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Madisonrsquo;s ldquo;La Movidardquo; expands to North Central Illinois




MADISON mdash; On Monday, June 10, WNTA AM 1330 in Rockford began broadcasting as ldquo;La Movida,rdquo; the first and only 24/7 Spanish-language station in the Rockford region and second Spanish-language radio s...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The jury is out on obamarsquo;s fight to confirm judges]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The next major showdown in Washington may not be over how best to reduce the deficit or involve another Obama cabinet appointment. Look for sparks to fly over the presidentrsquo;s constitutional prerogative to nominee federal judges and the Senatersquo;s responsibility to either confirm or reject ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[County expands efforts to buy local, make purchasing more competitive for local businesses]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dane County has strengthened its preferred purchasing ordinance that helps area businesses compete for county contracts, expanding the countyrsquo;s overall efforts to buy local, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced today.
ldquo;By expanding our own efforts to buy local, Dan...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[African Americans Disproportionately Affected by Disasters]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON D.C. mdash; The tornado which devastated an Oklahoma town last month has once again sparked debate about emergency preparedness, particularly in the African American community where disaster readiness hasnrsquo;t always been a priority.
ldquo;Wersquo;ve seen the effects of September ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Delta Sigma Theta Sorority opens school in Haiti]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Port-au-Prince, HAITI mdash; As the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding this year, they will also be celebrating an additional accomplishment: the grand opening of their very own elementary school in Haiti on June 15th.
In collaboration with the non-profit W...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trinidad seeking to find new oil markets in China]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[TRINIDAD mdash; Fearing that the U.S. will, in the short- to medium-term, require reduced amounts of natural gas from Trinidad for its Eastern Seaboard states, the oil- and gas-rich southern Caribbean island of Trinidad is beginning to switch its focus to mainland China as it searches for new marke...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 6/12/2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[June 12, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 11, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fountain of Life Family Worship Center Dedication]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 05, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Interview with United States Congressman Mark Pocan:  Freshman legislator making waves in Washington D.C.]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


It's been an interesting first five months for freshman United States Congressman Mark Pocan. He's introduced a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to a vote, he's been featured on the wildly popular comedy show ldquo;The Colbert Report,rdquo; and he has jumped into the fray of p...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Social Justice Center celebrates 13th birthday]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


The evening of Friday, May 31st brought out the best of the community to celebrate the 13th birthday of the Social Justice Center and to present the 2013 social justice awards.nbsp; 
In 2000, the Tenant Resource Center, Madison Community Cooperative, Wisconsin Community Fund, and Citizens Ac...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[24th Annual Juneteenth Celebration: Day of positivity at Penn Park]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
What started out as a church social of about 1,500 people has blossomed into the largest family-oriented African American celebration in Dane County,nbsp; with official estimates of over 15,000 attendees yearly. The 24th annual Juneteenth Celebration, put on by the Kujichagulia-Madison Center for...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Autism often goes undetected in black kids]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Areva Martin watched her youngest child play with growing concern. Marty was almost 18 months old and he didnrsquo;t play like other kids his age. Instead of racing toy cars on a track or across the floor, Marty would organize them in lines. He did the same thing wit...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Focusing on Food Sustainability: Mentoring Positives hosts Darbo cookout]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Omega Schoolrsquo;s Little Free Library]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pepsi  Cola#039;s Volunteer  of  the Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pepsi  Cola#039;s Volunteer  of  the Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black amp; Brown Unity Fair]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[South Madison Promise Zone:  Eat, Play, Bike Community Carnival]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Every Thursday in June, the South Madison Promise Zone will host the Eat, Play, Bike Community Carnival event at the Villager Mall. 
South Madison will be part of a nation-wide movement of place making, which put simply, involves looking at, listening to, and asking questions of peo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New ACLU report: Wisconsin ranks fifth in nation for highest racial disparities]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MILWAUKEE mdash; According to a new report by the American Civil Liberties Union, Blacks were arrested for marijuana possession at six times the rate of whites in Wisconsin in 2010, despite comparable marijuana usage rates.
The report, Marijuana in Black and White: Billions of Dollars Wasted on ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Homebuyers class coming to Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;Two kids who grew up a couple of blocks from the South Madison Neighborhood Center, or the Boys amp; girls Club as it is called now, are coming together as adults to help strengthen their community. On Saturday, June 25, they are hosting a class to help people become homeowners and r...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison County kicks off summer concert series]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

MADISON mdash;nbsp; Plan on a packed rooftop when Madison County comes to perform at Monona Terrace this summer.nbsp; Come to the Monona Terrace Rooftopnbsp; Thursday, June 13, 7 p.m. as the 2013 season of Concerts on the Rooftop kicks off with Madisonrsquo;s most popular country band. 
Ma...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The State of equality and Justice in America: The anatomy of the Modern Day Drum Major]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

nbsp;On April 9, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached a message that was strikingly applicable to the lives of modern day civil rights leaders and leaders of America's future. 
In the pulpit of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta only five days before he was assassinated, Dr. Kin...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW Study: Public health insurance boosts outpatient care, cuts hospital admissions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp; MADISON mdash; Expanded public health insurance coverage increases access to outpatient care and markedly reduces hospitalizations, new research by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers find. Dr. Thomas DeLeire, director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs, and colleagues...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Congressional Gold Medal Bill to honor the ldquo;Four Little Girlsrdquo;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON D.C. mdash; Congresswoman Sewell and Congressman Spencer Bachus (AL-06) introduced the bill along with the entire Alabama delegation and Alabama natives Rep. John Lewis (GA-05) and Rep. Sanford Bishop (GA-02).
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved H.R. 360 on May 9.nbsp; Senator Richard...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ethiopia diverts Nile River for giant dam, raising fears in Egypt, Sudan]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ADDIS ABABAnbsp; (GIN) ndash; Ethiopian government officials this week celebrated the diversion of the Blue Nile river for what theyrsquo;ve dubbed the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which is expected to provide hydroelectricity for Ethiopia and neighboring countries by 2015.
But downstream nat...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nigerian Assembly bans same sex marriage, imposes long jail sentences]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ldquo;If thatrsquo;s the scope, there will be serious issues,rdquo; Chidi Odinkalu, the chairman of Nigeriarsquo;s National Human Rights Commission said.
Western human rights groups abroad were quick to cry foul. This bill makes discrimination against LGBTI people the law of the land,rdquo; sa...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[is the recovery stumbling or soaring?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Although the overall unemployment rate still exceeds 7 percent, and the official Black unemployment rate is greater than 13 percent, there are some who insist that there is a robust economic recovery in progress.nbsp; Indeed, we were declared ldquo;post recessionrdquo; in 2011, based on the def...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Cavemen keep sexism alive]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Women serve in almost every high-powered job in the United States: CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, Senators, university presidents, race car drivers and even astronauts. Yet, there are some male bozos who think women should be treated as inferior beings.
Conservative blogger and Fox contributor Er...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama not singing lsquo;You Have a Friendrsquo;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 6/5/2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[June 5, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 04, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Wisconsinrsquo;s only Latino legislator fighting for working families]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


While Latinos are the fastest-growing population in Wisconsin and the United States, there is amazingly only one Latino in the entire Wisconsin state Legislature.
nbsp;ldquo;Being the only Latino in the Legislature, I feel strongly that I'm a representative for all of Wisconsin's Latino com...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Drum Power presents.....3rd annual Africa Night at Mills Concert Hall]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Between 150-200 Drum Power students from nine local schools will come together for the 3rd Annual Africa Night performance on Friday, May 31 at Mills Concert Hall in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Humanities Building.
ldquo;At the event you can expect some excitement and inspiration fro...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Tornado-stricken Oklahoma community rebounds]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


MOORE, Oklahoma (NNPA) mdash; Whenever high winds arise in Tornado Alley, this corridor of the state with a history of disasters, residents pay attention.nbsp; On Sunday evening beneath overcast skies there were slight gusts of wind but it would have taken another EF5 tornado, like the one l...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[YWCA honors outstanding women]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

YWCA Madison honored area's female leaders at its 2013 Women of Distinction Awards luncheon May 23 at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. 
The event was held during YWCA quot;Moxie Conference: Nerve and Know-How for Emerging Leaders.rdquo; This yearrsquo;s honorees were Betty...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[a reflection on Fountain of Lifersquo;s vision for transformational leadership]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;(Part 2 of Grand Opening Reflections)


The early lsquo;90s were very turbulent for Madison mdash;and the world.
The U.S. was riveted mdash; and divided mdash; over the April 29, 1992 acquittal of the L.A. police officers who had been charged with assault with a deadly weapon and use o...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison Meet and Eat expands in 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[After a very successful first year in the Meadowood neighborhood, Meet and Eat is expanding to the cityrsquo;s south and north side this summer Mayor Soglin announced Masy 28. 
The collective of food carts will be at the Villager Mall, 2300 S. Park Street on the cityrsquo;s Southside on Tuesdays ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Former hero cop arrested on rape charges]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA mdash; Richard Decoatsworth was one of the good guys; an officer who survived being shot in the face and still pursuing the shooter while returning fire. But that was in 2007, and now Decoatsworth remains in jail on $60 million bail. He has been charged with rape, sexual assault, posse...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama narrows scope of terror war]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON D.C. mdash; Responding to growing criticism by human rights groups and foreign governments, U.S. President Barack Obama Thursday announced potentially significant shifts in what his predecessor called the ldquo;global war on terrorrdquo;.
In a major policy address at the National Defe...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Alpha Phi Alpha Educational Scholarship Available]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Mu Eta Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of educational scholarships for graduating high school seniors attending a 4-year accredited public or private college or university. Applications are now available for students who ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[County receives national grant to reduce Racial disparities in the criminal justice system]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
American Bar Association selects Dane County as one of four national sites


MADISON mdash; Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne have today that the county has been selected to receive a $24,000 grant from the American Bar Association (ABA) to aid Da...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2013 Wisconsin Women of Color network inc. annual leadership seminar and election of board members]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; The Wisconsin Women of Color Network, Inc. will hold its Annual Leadershipnbsp; Seminar and Election of Board members on Saturday, June 8, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Atrium Community Rooms, The Villager Mall, 2300 South Park Street.
This yearrsquo;s event will feature women of...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Red Ribbon amp; White shoes Affair: An Old Tradition hellip; A New Look]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; After 25 years as one Madisonrsquo;s most anticipated evenings, Red Ribbon Affair takes on a new look in 2013. The ldquo;Red Ribbon amp; White Shoes Affairrdquo; debuts Friday, June 7, lakeside at the 
Marinerrsquo;s Inn (5339 Lighthouse Drive). The tented venue will feature ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Something New amp; Exciting Is Happening in South Madison. Come Celebrate With Us. We Want To Share This Great Moment With Our Entire Community!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Many blacks donrsquo;t like Obamarsquo;s role as lsquo;Lecturer-in-Chiefrsquo;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; The condescending, lecturer-in-chief rhetoric that President Obama reserves for Black audiences is beginning to irritate an increasing number of African-Americans, his most loyal voting bloc.
Through intermittent rain, President Obama implored Morehouse College gradu...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[in jobs, wersquo;re in a race to the bottom]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
On May 21, I had the opportunity to testify before a Congressional Progressive Caucus meeting on how federal dollars drive inequality by paying contractors who pay too many of their workers too little. The hearing was driven by a study from Amy Traub and her colleagues at Demos, a New York based t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Take a recess from closing public schools]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett has announced plans to close at least 50 schools as a cost-cutting measure. But before any other urban school system follows suit, it should take an extended recess and reflect on what has happened in the past that makes this such a foolish idea.
We...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of May 29, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[May 29, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Madison Times Presents.....Summer Calendar 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A dream comes true on Madisonrsquo;s south side]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[



Yes, dreams do come true. 
In about one year, Fountain of Life Church underwent an incredible $300,000 renovation to its facilities on Badger Road and in the process built the South Madison Center for Culture and Community (SMCCC), an amazing facility that will be a hub of activity and posi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[8th annual Latino Youth Career and College Fair:  quot;Build Your Futurequot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


More than 400 Madison-area Latino students poured into the Madison College Truax campus May 17 for the 8th annual Latino Youth Career and College Fair titled ldquo;Build Your Future.rdquo;
The event is hosted each year by the Latino Youth Career and College Fair Planning Committee and is a ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[ULGM Diversity Summit amp; Awards Luncheon: Dr. Steve Robbins drops the brain science behind open-mindedness]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Dr. Steve Robbins thesis is that while certain cultural and neuro-biological forces compel us to be closed-minded towards anything new or different, we have it in our power to overcome these influences so that we can comfortably entertain new ideas and be more accepting of those who differ fro...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Texas Southern alum Strahan receives honorary degree]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

HOUSTON (NNPA) mdash; Texas Southern University recently held its spring commencement, and one of the highlights was the presentation of an honorary doctorate of humane letters to alum Michael Strahan.
Strahan, now a TV personality, was a star football performer at TSU from 1989-1992, a ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[a reflection on Fountain of Lifersquo;s vision and staying the course]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;
When aspiring Americans take the citizenship test, they are asked, ldquo;What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens?rdquo; The correct answer? The right to vote. That is because the right to vote is not just important, it is fundamental mdash; it represents nothing less t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Parks Place/U.S. Congressperson Mark Pocan: Right to Vote amendment]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;  When aspiring Americans take the citizenship test, they are asked, ldquo;What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens?rdquo; The correct answer? The right to vote. That is because the right to vote is not just important, it is fundamental mdash; it represents nothing less tha...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Major road construction will be suspended to accommodate heavy traffic during Memorial Day weekend]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;To help holiday travelers reach their destination safely and efficiently, construction work on most major highway projects will be suspended during the three-day Memorial Day weekend, according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT). Most highway construction in work z...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New Orleans ranks second on list of booming U.S. cities]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS mdash;New Orleans once again makes a list of Americarsquo;s top cities.
A report by Bloomberg Rankings ranks the New Orleans area, inshy;cluding neighbors Metairie and Kenner, as No. 2 on a list of ldquo;Top 12 American Boomtowns.rdquo;
The list is a ranking of the fastest-growing...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nuclear Iran unlikely to tilt regional power balance mdash; report]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;WASHINGTON (IPS) mdash; A nuclear-armed Iran would not pose a fundamental threat to the United States and its regional allies like Israel and the Gulf Arab monarchies, according to a new report released here Friday by the Rand Corporation.
Entitled ldquo;Iran After the Bomb: How Would a Nuc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Charlestine Daniel wins Wright Human Rights award]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

MADISON mdash; The Equal Opportunities Commissionrsquo;s Committee has selected Charlestine ldquo;Charlierdquo; Danielnbsp; as the winner of the 2013 Reverend James C. Wright Human Rights Award. This award honors the late Rev. James C. Wright who served as executive director of the Equal Op...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Mann Scholars to be honored at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery Town Center June 7]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The 2013 Mann Scholars Ceremony will be held at the at the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery Town Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Friday, June 7, 5:30-7 p.m..
nbsp;The Mann Scholars Program's goal is to provide mentoring and educational tools to students from the Madison Metrop...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane County Casa:  2013 Stand Up mdash; and sing mdash; For Kids]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;Dane County CASA will present ldquo;2013 Stand Up mdash; and sing mdash; For Kidsrdquo; featuring Madisonrsquo;s own legendary live karaoke band, the Gomers, hosting Rockstar Gomeroke, with local celebrity and audience performances.nbsp; Stand Up mdash; and sing mdash; For Kid...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[South Madisom Promise Zone Community Night highlights sustainability]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Take Control of Diabetes]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[May 22, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fountain of Life Celebration!! Come join us May 31 through June 2nd!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 5/22/2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2013 African American Student Recognition Celebration]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 21, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Hammer with a heart:  Building community]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Just chatting with skilled crew chief Al Terry, you can really feel the heart come through in the Hammer with a Heart program that he is so passionate about. For 10 years, Terry's team has been working to improve people's homes and their lives. And, in the process, improving our community, too.nb...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Four decades of social justice]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp;
nbsp;
ldquo;If you really want to address issues, it's not enough just to provided the direct services. You have to be working on solving and addressing the root causes of the problems,rdquo; says Madison-area Urban Ministry Executive Director Linda Ketcham. ldquo;William Sloane C...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW Odyssey Project graduates 10th class of 30]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks are still majority of the wrongfully convicted]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;When a Baltimore grocery store employee fingered 26-year-old Michael Austin for the murder of a security guard in the spring of 1974, Austin didnrsquo;t even match the police sketch. The wanted suspect was less 6 feet tall and Austin was the size of a small forward in the N...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Robert L. Johnson announces a campaign to end payday lending]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[BETHESDA, MD mdash; Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies, has announced plans for an education awareness campaign designed to convince minority organizations, elected officials, and public interest groups to support his proposal to end payday lending as we know it today and ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[African American Student Recognition Program this Sunday]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; Madison Metropolitan Chapter of The Links, Inc. will sponsor its annual African American Student Recognition Program on Sunday, May 19 at Madison College, Truax Campus Gymnasium, 3550 Anderson St.nbsp; 
The recognition program for elementary students will begin at 1:30 p.m.; ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Health centers to help uninsured gain access]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) ndash; Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to provide $150 million to community health centers to assist in getting uninsured Americans prepared for the Oct. 1 opening of the Health Care Marketplace.




The 1,2000 Commu...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[South Africa:  #039;Free but not equal#039;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (NNPA) mdash; When international icon and former political prisoner Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, it marked a watershed moment for the former minority-ruled country. Mandela, the standard bearer for the African National Congress, won ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Lights......camera......action!!!  quot;The Clubquot; takes over downtown Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison B-Cycle offers free rides for Bike To Work Week]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;nbsp; The Madison B-cycle bike sharing system will be offering a range of free resources to get Madison riding during the Wisconsin Bicycle Federationrsquo;s Bike to Work Week May 13th through 17th, including free trips on B-cycle the entire week. The promotion is timed during Madis...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trouble always followed Malcolm Shabazz]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;For Malcolm Shabazz, grandson of Malcolm X, trouble seemed to come easy.
His troubles began in 1997, when at age 12 he plead guilty to setting fire to the apartment of his grandmother, Betty Shabazz, that resulted in her death in New York. As a result, young Malcolm spent f...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Rape cases highlight ldquo;colonialrdquo; police practices]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI (IPS) mdash;nbsp; Harsh police handling of public protests erupting across India over a spate of sensational rapes since December has resulted in renewed demands to reform a force that retains the repressive features of its colonial origins.
Last month a bench of the Supreme Court, ange...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Cleveland#039;s Charles Ramsey:  Hood or hero?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


When some of us saw the first video of Charles Ramsey, the colorful Black dishwasher in Cleveland who is being celebrated as a hero for rescuing three White women captives from horrid conditions in a Cleveland house, we had a flashback to Antoine Dodson, who became a flamboyant Internet sensat...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black empowerment #039;at last#039; --- or last?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[When Beyonce Knowles sang the Etta James song ldquo;At Lastrdquo; at President Barack Obamarsquo;s 2009 inauguration, the song could have had several meanings.nbsp; At last we have an African American president?nbsp; At last, the muscle of the Black vote has been flexed?nbsp; At last, there is...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black revolutionary Assata Shakur is no terrorist]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
When the FBI announced that they were placing fugitive Assata Shakur (Joanne Chesimard) on the list of most wanted terrorists and that they were offering an additional $1 million for her capture, it caught most of the world by complete surprise.nbsp; Assata has been living quietly in exile in Cub...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Class of 2013: Courage, choice and compassion]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;Raise your eyes now, and look from the place where you arehellip;for all the land that you see I will give to you.rdquo; Genesis 13: 14-15
University commencement season is a time of high hopes and great celebration. I was again reminded of that when I delivered the commencement address ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of May 15, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Tenth annual UW Odyssey Project graduates 30]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[608-TV, Club TNT and Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County present.......quot;The Clubquot; at the Overture Hall]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The Overture Hall at the Overture Center for the Arts in downtown Madison Saturday night will be the place where you can see some incredible young rising stars at the premiere of quot;The Club: What club do you want to belong to?,rdquo; a movie that has been produced by 608-TV and Club Today Not...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[ULGM event deepens the conversation on diversity amp; inclusion]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;
Record numbers of employees are planning to retire while our city and state continues to get more and more diverse.nbsp; Is Madison ready for the next generation? Are our companies, agencies, and organizations moving towards a more inclusive culture?


These are some of the i...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New book looks to get the fatherhood conversation going:  quot;Doing The Dad Thingquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


David Hart has long observed that that when fathers get together at parties and barbecues and other functions, they are very likely to talk to each other about sports, music, or current events. Meanwhile, the mothers at the very same events will be talking about the many issues around being a ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Whites six times wealthier than blacks]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Whites had an average wealth of $632,000 in 2010 while Blacks had about $98,000 and Hispanics had $110,000, according to a recent study by the Urban Institute.
ldquo;Such great wealth disparities help explain why many middle-income blacks and Hispanics havenrsquo;t see...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on my mama]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[I am the man that I am today because of my mother.


There is a reason why so many celebrated athletes stand on football turf, podiums, and gym floors and look dead into primetime cameras during their interviews and say those famous words, ldquo;Hi mom!rdquo; They recognize the sometimes invisi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Harris seeks reparation for blacks whose relatives lived in the Triangle]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; 
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Dr. Richard Harris, author of the book ldquo;Growing Up Black In South Madisonrdquo; has requested that Madison Mayor Paul Soglin conduct an investigation into the possibility that blacks living in the Triangle area were cheated by the Madison Re...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[American Family Childrenrsquo;s Hospital announces more than $600,000 raised at  Merrill Lynch Grand Gala]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; American Family Childrenrsquo;s Hospital announced today that the Madison community has raised more than $616,200 at a fundraising event sponsored by Merrill Lynch.
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; More than 600 people attended the seventh annual Gala at the University of Wisconsin G...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[More protests to come, vows N.C. NAACP]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp; WILMINGTON, N.C. mdash;Seventeen people, including eight ministers, civil rights leaders, and students, were arrested for a prayerful protest at the state legislature in Raleigh on Monday.
They promise to return again.
The activists were handcuffed and taken to jail while they sang and pra...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Syrian civil war increasinly a concern]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON mdash; Despite renewed pressure by hawks in Congress and the media, U.S. President Barack Obama appears determined to avoid sharply escalating U.S. involvement in the ongoing civil war in Syria.
While administration officials insist that all options for responding to the recent alleged ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Executive Director Kent Craig leaving Centro Hispano]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Kent Craig has informed the Centro Hispano Board of Directors that he will be leaving his position as executive director of Centro Hispano of Dane County to pursue higher education.nbsp; His last day will be June 28.
ldquo;I am extremely grateful to the board, staff, and community for the oppor...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Soul Stroll health movement will be landing in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; On June 15, the 1st annual Soul Stroll Madison will be held in conjunction with the Juneteenth Festival at Madisonrsquo;s Penn Park.
The Soul Stroll features a 1-Mile and 3-Mile Walk, which is a perfect way to get the required 30 minutes of daily physical activity. Participants can...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW Odyssey Program graduation set for May 8]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Race activists claim past to improve the future]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ASHVILLE, N.C. (NNPA) mdash; The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has awarded $75 million in grants for a 5-year project called the American Healing Initiative. But in an unusual and unexpected move, the foundation assembled some of the grantees here recently to help heal the healers.
The W.K. Kellogg Fo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Study prompt calls for policy reforms to eliminate racial wealth gaps]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; According to a new research report, Americarsquo;s racial wealth gaps will persist until public policy reforms provide every family the opportunity to build wealth.
Less than Equal: Racial Disparities in Wealth Accumulation, from the Urban Institutersquo;s Opportunity a...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks underrepresented in immigration debate]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The Senatersquo;s Gang of Eight have put together an 844-page monstrosity known as the Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act, legislation that President Obama says he ldquo;basically approvesrdquo; of.nbsp; The crafters of this essentially unreadable bill was pu...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Immigrant workers demand justice on May Day Rally at Capitol]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[May 8, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of May 8, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[El Dia De Los  Ninos]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 10, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[May 1,  2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 01, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Local events]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 01, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 5/1/2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 01, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[May 1, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 01, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[We ache for Boston ndash; and all communities]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[By Marc Morial
NNPA Columnist
nbsp;
ldquo;No more hurting people. Peace.rdquo;
- Eight-year-old Martin Richard, a victim of the Boston Marathon bombing
nbsp;
Acts of terror like the ones committed in Boston are reprehensible and without moral or logical explanation. They rock us to our cor...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Mythical Black Economy]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
nbsp;
nbsp;
By James Clingman
nbsp;
NNPA Columnist
nbsp;
Although the dictionary calls it archaic, the ldquo;management of a householdrdquo; is one of the definitions listed for the word ldquo;economy.rdquo;nbsp;nbsp; Another definition is ldquo;a saving or attempt to reduce...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Learning to teach students how to learn]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
By Julianne Malveaux
NNPA Columnist
nbsp;
African American students achieve at a different level than White students.nbsp;nbsp;Test scores are lower, as are high school and college completion rates, and the number of African Americans attending four-year institutions is falling.nbsp;T...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Madison Times is 22!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;We have every ingredient here to be successfulquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


ldquo;I definitely see myself as being a highly accessible superintendent. Every person I meet, theyrsquo;re getting my contact information,rdquo; says new Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham. ldquo;Irsquo;m easy to find and very open to hearing fr...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Sharp drop in black male enrollment in med schools]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;mdash; Fewer Black males were enrolled in the first year of medical schools last year than 32 years ago, a trend that, if left uncorrected, could hamper efforts to provide quality health care to underserved communities, according to a top officer in the American Assoc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[El Dia De Los Ninos celebrating 10 years]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
El Diacute;a de los Nintilde;os (The Day of the Children) has its roots in Latin America, although it is also celebrated in Asian and European countries. It is a worldwide celebration of the child and family. This day recognizes children, pays homage to their importance in society, and endorses ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blame a dark-skinned man]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
I donrsquo;t know where CNNrsquo;s John King got the information that a suspect in the Boston bombing was ldquo;a dark-skinned male,rdquo; but beyond apologizing, he needs to explain himself.nbsp; How many sources gave him the false tip?nbsp; If it was fewer than two, then he violated a basi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The 8th annual Multicultural Senior Health Fair to be held at the Warner Park Community Center]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;The 8th annual Multicultural Senior Health Fair will be held at the Warner Park Community Recreation Center on May 10. Local seniors could enjoy community agencies providing informational booths, free health screenings, and educational presentations.nbsp; 
The North/Eastside Senior ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on neighborliness]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[What an incredibly sad string of events that have rocked our nation in the past several weeks! 
Sadly, execution-type killings, the resurgence of white supremacy gang violence, school shootings and attacks and acts of terrorism in places like the Boston Marathon are threatening to become commonplac...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Third year of choice school data]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Statewide assessments taken by students in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) and the Parental Private School Choice Program (PPSCP) in Racine showed mixed results in mathematics and reading compared to last year, and results were lower than their local public school distri...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Tragedy in Brooklyn]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[BROOKLYN, N.Y. mdash; To the retired police officer in Brooklyn, the news was shocking, virtually impossible to comprehend.
ldquo;We were at a meeting of the Caribbean Law Enforcement Officers Association about a week ago and she was her usual quiet self,rdquo; recalled Leroy Hutchinson, a Bajan...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[More Diplomacy, Less Pressure Needed for Iran Settlement]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON mdash; The administration of President Barack Obama should put more emphasis on diplomacy in its quest for a satisfactory resolution of Iranrsquo;s nuclear program, according to a major new report released by The Iran Project.
Endorsed by nearly three dozen former top U.S. diplomatic, ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Boston Martathon#039;s media frenzy]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
I am a certified news junkie, but even I had to step away from the oversaturated media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. Anyone who has covered crimes on a smaller scale than the twin explosions in Boston knows that investigators donrsquo;t have instant answers for everything and itrsquo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2013 Urban League of Greater Madison Young Professionals National Day of Service]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Urban League of Greater Madison Young Professionals will host its first annual National Day of Service Program on April 25, 1:40 -3:20 p.m. at Badger Rock Middle School, 501 E Badger Rd. The National Day of Service Program is an annual one-day service commitment where member chap...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Free kidney health screening this weekend at ULGM]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; If you have diabetes or high blood pressure ndash; this screening is for you!nbsp; The South Madison Promise Zone and the National Kidney Foundation of Wisconsin is urging Madison - area residents to give their kidneys a well-deserved checkup.nbsp; 
On Saturday, April 27, the Nat...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The fight to protect children from guns is not over]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The United States Senatersquo;s failure to pass common sense gun safety measures mdash; the Manchin-Toomey Amendment to expand background checks to keep guns away from underage or dangerous people, and amendments to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines designed only to kill as many hu...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[State cuts to college aid exacerbates affordability issue]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) ndash; As President Obama continues to underscore the need to increase the college-educated workforce significantly by 2020, all except two states have slashed their funding for higher education.
ldquo;Cuts to state funding for higher education, since the start of the recession,...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane County Farmers#039; Market on the Square open for business!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nominations being accepted for annual Reverend James C. Wright Human Rights Award]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;nbsp;nbsp; The Department of Civil Rights-Equal Opportunities Division is seeking nominations for the seventeenth Annual Reverend James C. Wright Human Rights Award. Nominations are due on May 3 and the award will be presented at the Common Council Meeting on June 18. The award hono...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Message to Congress:  Show courage on gun safety]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;Sometimes I close my eyes and all I can remember is that awful dayhellip;But other times, I feel Benrsquo;s presence filling me with courage for what I have to dohellip;rdquo;Francine Wheeler, mother of 6-year-old Ben Wheeler, one of the 26 victims of the December 14 Sandy Hook tragedy....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pepsi  Cola#039;s Volunteer of  the Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Delta Day at the State Capitol]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of April 24, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[April 24, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Madison Times is 22!!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 28, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Award reception honors outstanding students]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Community members gathered to honor 12 outstanding youths at the Women in Focus Inc. quot;I Have a Dreamquot; Scholarship Award Reception in the Washburn Heritage Room of Regina Hall at Edgewood College April 14.
Women in Focus Inc. vice president Jan Studesville, emcee for the event, greet...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[NUL:  Blacks struggle for parity with whites]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;Blacks have fallen behind in their efforts to reach parity with Whites in several key areas since 2010, according to the National Urban Leaguersquo;s new ldquo;State of Black Americardquo; report.
Each year, the report computes an Equality Index for economics, health, ed...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[East High designated a national demonstration site]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[  Madison East High School has been designated as a national demonstration site for AVID/TOPS, a college preparatory program that has shown success raising achievement for low-income and minority students.  ldquo;Our school has been recognized for really implementing to full fidelity the best pract...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[La Mujer Latina  Conference]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Spring Harbor Middle School advances to New Orleans]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Wisconsin families face energy crises after Utility Disconnection Moratorium ends]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;nbsp; Energy Services, Inc. (ESI) and Keep Wisconsin Warm/Cool Fund have announced that now that the moratorium on utility services has ended, many Wisconsin households will face the tough choice between ldquo;eating and heatingrdquo; or neglect basic needs such as purchasing medic...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison will March for Immigrant and Workers#039; Rights on May Day]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


MADISON mdash;The Immigrant Workers Union (IWU), labor and community organizations and their allies will join the national call for immigration reform and workersrsquo; rights on Wednesday, May 1st. In Wisconsin there will be at least two rallies in coordination with hundreds of cities all a...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[African American Student Recognition Program set for May 19 at Madison College]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

MADISON mdash; The Madison Metropolitan Chapter of The Links, Inc. will sponsor its annual African American Student Recognition Program on Sunday, May 19 at Madison College, Truax Campus Gymnasium, 3550 Anderson St.nbsp; 
The recognition program for elementary students will begin at 1:30 p.m....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Springing into Summer Injuries]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Visit us at Isthmus Green Day!!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane County Executive Joe Parisi begins first full term as county executive]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dane County Executive Joe Parisi was sworn into office April 16 for his first full term as county executive. Parisi won a full term as county executive in the spring election held on April 2nd. He was first elected to the position during an April 2011 special election to serve out th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Sheriff shrugs off shocking video; calls out political foes]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS mdash; Pay no attention to that shocking video of drinking, drugging, gambling, and gun play at the House of Detention yoursquo;ve all seen in the past week. Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman investigated the matter and determined there was not enough hard evidence to sustain a lega...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Gender violence, theft land women in Cuban prisons]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[HAVANAnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; The life histories of Cuban women in prison for murdering their violent husbands or boyfriends show the need for reforms of the criminal code to take account of gender reasons as mitigating factors in sentencing.
Most (63 percent) of the nearly 4,000 Cuban women in pr...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;Obamaquot; as a prefix]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
The right wing seems determined to associate President Obama with any government program that helps people on the bottom. Thus, the term Obamacare was used to attack the health care program that President Obama fashioned and worked with Congress to approve.nbsp; While Obamacare is not perfe...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Political maneuvering over the budget]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
There has been much discussion about the big picture items in President Obamarsquo;s proposed budget for fiscal 2014. If the devil is in the details, as politicians like to say, some parts of Obamarsquo;s budget will mean hell for some needy citizens.
Before getting into the details, letrsquo;...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;I promise this time there will be changequot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
I would like every parent in this country . . . I would like them to look in the mirror.nbsp; And thatrsquo;s not a figure of speech . . . I mean, literally find a mirror in your house and look in it and look in your eyes and say, lsquo;This will never happen to me. This will never happen in my...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of April 17, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[April 17, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Centro Hispano 30th Anniversary Mixer]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;There is no health without mental healthquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ldquo;Yoursquo;re being weak! Why donrsquo;t you pull yourself together? Snap out of it! Why donrsquo;t you pull yourself up from your bootstraps?rdquo;
Sometimes thatrsquo;s the reaction people face when they admit that they are suffering from depression. Depression is a highly common medica...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Memphis center stage as world reflects on Dr. King]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

MEMPHIS mdash; A billing for the evening read: ldquo;Mountaintop Speech Commemoration.rdquo; It was a summons to gather back at Mason Temple, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his last oration ndash; often simply called ldquo;The Mountaintop Speechrdquo; mdash; on April 3, 1968....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The black unemployment rate drops for all the wrong reasons]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;There wasnrsquo;t much good news for any of the worker groups in the March jobs report, released last week. Even though, the unemployment rate fell to 7.6 percent, most economists agree that the drop is attributable to nearly half a million workers exiting the labor...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2013 Sable Flames Jones-Robinson Scholarship now available]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[24th Annual Juneteenth slated for June 15]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane County residents nominated for Community Volunteer Awards]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The United Way Community Volunteer Awards is a volunteer recognition reception honoring all the great volunteers throughout Dane County and the incredible impact they make in our community. At this event yoursquo;ll hear heartwarming stories about volunteers who are helping to make ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[19th annual 100 Black Men of Madison African American History Challenge Bowl this weekend]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The 100 Black Men of Madison will be hosting its 19th annual African American History Challenge Bowl, Saturday, April 14, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Doyle Administration Building, McDaniel's Auditorium, 545 West Dayton St.nbsp; 
This annual event is a contest for middle and high schoo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2012 graduaion rate increases from prior year]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Wisconsinrsquo;s four-year graduation rate is up one-half a percentage point for 2012 from the prior yearrsquo;s rate, continuing a trend of steady improvement in high school completion. The statersquo;s graduation rate is among the highest in the nation; tied for second in the mo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Women in Focus Inc. to host scholarship ceremony at Edgewood College April 14]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; It will be a fun afternoon of celebrating accomplishments and anticipating future success as Women in Focus (WIF) Inc. will distribute scholarships to outstanding area students at Edgewood College April 14.
nbsp; Every spring, WIF awards scholarships to minority students in the gre...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Salsa #039;N#039; Chips]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Warring with the War on Drugs]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;Ron Daniels, president of the Institute of the Black World 21st Century, declared a war on the War on Drugs last week, saying it is fine to end the failed public policy.
ldquo;The War on Drugs is a racially biased policy and strategy. It is the new Jim Crow,rdquo;
Daniel...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Moneyt talk falls on deaf ears]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Surely yoursquo;ve heard the saying, ldquo;Money Talks.rdquo;nbsp; But, have you ever wondered what is said about Black money? Obviously, understanding its power and the role it plays in this economy, money speaks loudly and clearly, and Black money speaks even louder.nbsp; But what does it s...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Covance Opportunity]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Community events]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[5th Annual UW Bioethics Symposuim]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;nbsp; Should obese people have to pay for two seats on an airplane? What should government do about Americarsquo;s expanding waistline and its love for extra-large sodas? Is obesity just a marketing scare tactic or is it really an epidemic? These are the issues that experts will dis...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks get 20 percent longer sentences than whites]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MIAMI mdash;For the first time in nearly 40 years, the number of state prisoners in the U.S. has declined. Data compiled by The Pew Center on the States indicates that as of Jan. 1, 2010, there were 1,404,053 persons under the jurisdiction of state prison authorities. The decrease, which is the fir...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Caribbean: Young computer scientists in Cuba short of opportunities]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[HAVANAnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Thousands of young Cubans are graduating in computer engineering, a sector the government decided to strengthen over the past decade. But their professional future is uncertain because of failures of organization and of internet connectivity.
ldquo;I havenrsquo;t be...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The burden of unemployment]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Unemployment rates were ldquo;little changedrdquo; in March 2013 mdash; they were either holding steady or dropping by a tenth of a percentage point or so.nbsp; The unemployment rate dropped from 7.7 to 7.6 percent representing a steady, if painstakingly slow, decrease.nbsp; This declin...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama budget breaks Social security pledge]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Even before President Obama released his budget proposal this week for the next fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, preliminary details about his plan to effectively cut Social Security cost of living increases has caused a firestorm among supporters who now feel betrayed.
Under the plan, Obama would...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of April 10, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Soul Food Junkies]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[La Mujer Latina Conference]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[



Through politics, discussions, networking, art, music, and workshops, the 17th annual La Mujer Latina Conference April 13 at the Pyle Center will once again be an important community resource. The theme this year is ldquo;Creating a Healthy Latina Environment: Physically, Mentally, Spiritua...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Diane Nash#039;s formula for the fight]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Turn to any page of history on the fight for American civil and human rights and you'll see the name Diane Nash appear prominently and often.nbsp; 
Beginning at age 22, Nash co-founded the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, and was at the forefront of the most well-known and successfu...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Youth Employment Program celebrates 20 years of  service]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[



The Youth Job Center job skills program is celebrating 20 years in Madison. The important local agency has trained over 2,000 high school-aged youth in the art of finding, securing, and keeping local paid employment and giving youngsters skills which they continue to use for a lifetime.
ld...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on old faithful friends]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


One of lifersquo;s greatest gifts is old friends.
Old friendships can be tricky to manage if not handled carefully. As we grow older and wiser there is often a need to renegotiate roles within our relationships because people mdash; and their status mdash; can change. For example, a friend...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[WWIG, Klinke Cleaners sponsor Professional Clothing Drive for YWCA Madison #039;Suited for Success#039;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Wisconsin Women in Government (WWIG) and Klinke Cleaners, in their 11th year of collaboration, are partnering together to help support the YWCA Madisonrsquo;s ldquo;Suited for Successrdquo; program. 
Suited for Success is one of several YWCA programs designed to assist women in n...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[WHEDA announces new home buyer program]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) has officially unveiled the WHEDA Tax Advantage, a Mortgage Credit Certificate Program (MCC). Under this unique program, qualifying home buyers can claim a tax credit against their federal income tax liability of up to ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison schools accepting applications for Dual Language Immersion]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Madison Metropolitan School District invites families of incoming kindergartners to submit applications for the Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program for the 2013-14 school year and to attend informational sessions about the program. Lottery applications are due by Friday, May 3....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Artful Women of Color]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[El Dia De Los Ninos]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Williams wins prestigious National Diversity Leadership Award]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The University of Wisconsin-Madisonrsquo;s Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Damon A. Williams, Ph.D., has been chosen as this yearrsquo;s recipient of the Inclusive Excellence Award for Leadership by the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[LGBT: U.S. Congress inches away from the straight and narrow]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Even as the issue of gay marriage continues to make waves in the U.S., change is inexorably arriving in the halls of power, with a record seven openly homosexual or bisexual members of the new U.S. Congress.
While still small, the number represents a significant g...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Iran: Nuclear activities go on despite sanctions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp; WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; While the U.S.-led sanctions regime on Iran has produced substantial economic hardship, analysts here are increasingly pointing out that Tehranrsquo;s controversial nuclear activities have continued unabated.
According to a study released recently by...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court determined to kill affirmative action]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
A decade after carefully ruling in two University of Michigan cases mdash; striking down the undergraduate admissions procedures and upholding those implemented by the law school ndash; the U.S. Supreme Court seems on course to strike down even the mildest form of affirmative action admissions i...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Payday lending drains nearly $1 billion from communities]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
nbsp;One of the worst ironies of the nagging economic recession is that consumers with the fewest financial resources have lost the most. Now, a new report finds that payday loans not only strip much-needed income from low-income families, but harms the economic viability of the communities...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of April 3, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[April 3, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Word is Bond Poetry Slam:  Grand Slam Championship]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 03, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[WISDOM rally draws 900 to Madison March 14]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Six Wisconsin umbrella religious groups gathered hundreds of people in Madison March 14 to support funding for Treatment Alternatives and Diversions (TAD) instead of jail or prison for nonviolent offenders. Their campaign, called 11 X 15, proposes reducing Wisconsinrsquo;s prison population b...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Soul Food Luncheon Fundraiser]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Panel discusses quot;Why Race amp; Placequot;?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Guest speakers at the UWrsquo;s ldquo;Why Race amp; Place?rdquo; forum March 15 included (l-r) Dr. Lisa Brock,nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Dr. Townsand Price-Spratlen, Dr. Becky Martinez, Kaleem Caire, Colleen Butler, and Everett Mitchell.

The Multicultural Student Center (MSC) and Institute fo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Education Chief:  Schools failing black students]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Instead of being the traditional ticket to success, many of our nationrsquo;s troubled schools hinder opportunity for upward mobility, especially for students of color, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told Black publishers in a private meeting last week.
ldquo;T...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blank recommended as UW-Madison chancellor]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


MADISON mdash; Dr. Rebecca M. Blank, Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, has been recommended as the next Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW System President Kevin P. Reilly and a special committee of the UW System Board of Regents announced their recommendation today.nbsp...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison Metropolitan Links#039; host quot;Yes I Can!quot; Conference for 8th grade girls]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

nbsp;MADISON mdash; On March 4, the Madison Metropolitan Chapter of The Links Inc. sponsored its 3rd annual quot;Yes I Can!quot; conference for 8th grade girls at American Family Insurancersquo;s Madison Corporate Campus.nbsp; These 55 quot;Girls of Promisequot; were identified by their ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[CBC offers its budget plan]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; The Congressional Black Caucus opposes a proposed House Republican budget for fiscal 2014 and instead offered an alternative budget that it said is faired to the voters the CBC represents.
Referring to the Republican plan CBC Chair Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) said i...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[South Madison Promise Zone, UW ARMS, and UW Space Place#039;s Family Science Night]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dr. Cheatham to meet with students, staff, parents, community members]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; Dr. Jennifer Cheatham plans to visit schools and neighborhoods and hear broadly from students, teachers, staff, principals, parents, and community members in her first weeks on the job. Cheatham will start on April 1 and has released plans for her first 90 days. 
ldquo;It is a tr...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. intelligence sees cyber threats eclipsing terrorism]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Cyber threats appear to have largely replaced terrorism as posing the greatest risks to U.S. national security, which also confronts major longer-term challenges from the effects of natural resource shortages and climate change, according to the latest in a series ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Latin Americans abuzz over ldquo;Latinordquo; pope]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp; BUENOS AIRESnbsp; (IPS/GIN)nbsp; mdash; The selection of a Latin American pope, who is known for his austere lifestyle and his work with the poor, has created a stir among Catholics in the region, who are confident that Pope Francis will help bolster the Vaticanrsquo;s tarnished reputat...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. and Europe, not the Catholic Church, blowing smoke]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
The selection of Argentinian cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the next leader of the Catholic Church was, in some ways, inevitable. Latin America is home to the largest Catholic population in the world, and it has been more than past time for the tradition of selecting European popes to end...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A southern governor breaks with the past]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
There are some painful things from my childhood in segregated Tuscaloosa, Ala., that I will never forget. At the top of the list is Gov. George C. Wallacersquo;s June 11, 1963 ldquo;Stand in the School House Doorrdquo; at the University of Alabama. I had just completed my sophomore year at Drui...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Small Steps Add up to Big Changes]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of March 20, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[March 20, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Meeting the Needs of Madison#039;s Latinos]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 22, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[School Board candidate Wayne Strong: Community focused]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
nbsp;
As a very active community member, a longtime coach for the Southside Raiders, and a positive mentor and role model for young people for decades and decades, Wayne Strong has spent countless hours molding young kids and being a vital resource for families who come to him for guidance...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 17, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Centro Hispano celebrates three decades]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

My, how things have changed.
When Centro Hispano of Dane County first opened its doors on March 18, 1983, it served about 3,000 Latinos in Dane County. Today, 30 years later, the number of Latinos in Dane County is somewhere between 30,000-40,000.
Thirty years ago this week, a group of communi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2013 YWCA Women of Distinction Honorees Announced]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The YWCA Madison is pleased to announce the 2013 Women of Distinction award honorees: Betty Banks, Andreal Davis, Tehmina Islam, Salli Martyniak, Becky Steinhoff, and Mona Adams Winston. 
Empowering women is a key component of the YWCA Madisonrsquo;s mission. The 2013 awards will b...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Stronger Violence Against Women Act signed into law]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;nbsp;nbsp; When Rep. Gwen Moore [D-Wisc.] stood near President Obama last Thursday as he signed the Violence Against Women Act into law, as a rape survivor, she knew the benefit of the legislation as well as well as anyone in the room.
ldquo;I am so pleased to join...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Aren#039;t we through with self-victimization yet?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[As I grow older mdash; and hopefully wiser mdash; I realize that I have fewer and fewer people in my life to blame things on. I am left to face the haunting reality that I have spent way too much time accusing other people of spoiling my success rather than celebrating and assuring my own success....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Youth Employment Program celebrates 20 years of service]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Youth Job Center (YJC) job skills program, which has trained well over 2,000 high-school aged youth in the art of finding, securing and keeping local paid employment; skills which they continue to use for a lifetime.
nbsp;Sixty percent of...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Festival will feature NYC guest artist DawN Crandell]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;Performance arts scholars of the First Wave Hip-Hop Theater Ensemble will present their solo, duo, and ensemble works as part of the 7th Annual Line Breaks Festival in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Avenue, from Wednesday, March 13- Wednesday, March 20. The nightly performances from 6 ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Civil rights icon Diane Nash to present lecture]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

nbsp;MADISON mdash;Edgewood College is pleased to welcome Diane Nash as she presents the 8th Annual Hatheway History Lecture Wednesday, March 20, 7 p.m. in Anderson Auditorium at Edgewood College.
Nash is a civil rights icon. She was a leader and champion of the civil rights movement of the 1...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Covance Volunteer Opportunity]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Michelle Alexander: quot; We#039;ve been lulled into a deep, deep sleepquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Union Directorate's Distinguished Lecture Series



Renowned civil rights attorney and advocate Michelle Alexander contended that the United Statesrsquo; system of mass incarceration functions more like a caste system than a system of crime prevention or control as she spoke to a pack...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Mayor Soglin announces appointment Of Planning Division Director]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Madison Mayor Paul Soglin has announced the appointment of Katherine Cornwell as the City of Madisonrsquo;s Planning Division Director. Ms. Cornwell currently has aprivate strategic planning consulting practice that provides development programming, proforma and market analysis, sus...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. austerity ripples outward]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Since the 2008 financial crisis, and most recently with the broad federal spending cuts beginning Mar. 1, experts have warned that an austerity-minded political system could bring about dramatic changes in the U.S. foreign aid model.
A significant part of this con...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Venezuela: Chavez invigorated the left in Latin America]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[CARACASnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Part of the legacy left by Venezuelan President Hugo Chaacute;vez, who died Tuesday, was his determined struggle for the integration of Latin America independent of the standards and models of the industrialized North, and for the reinvigoration of left-wing radicali...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[America#039;s racial wealth gap triples over 25 years]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
As long as most of us can remember, Black communities have taught and believed that a college education is the key to social and economic advancement. But according to a new research and policy brief by Brandeis University scholars, that long-held belief is only one of several factors affecting Bl...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Keep Section Voting Rights Act 5]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;I risked my life defending that right. If we are ever to actualize the true meaning of equality, effective measures such as the Voting Rights Act are still a necessary requirement of democracy.rdquo;nbsp; 
mdash;Georgia U.S. Rep. John Lewis
In commemoration of the 48th anniversary of ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black unemployment has not improved]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
When unemployment numbers were released on Friday, commentators reacted joyfully.nbsp; Alan Krueger, who heads the White House Council of Economic Advisors, described the creation of 247,000 jobs as a victory because the predictions were that the economy would only generate 170,000 jobs.nbsp; Un...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of March 13, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[March 13, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[First Annual Harriet Tubman Walk]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 15, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Rosa Parks honored by Congress with full-length statue]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; As Black History Month came to a close last week, a Civil Rights icon made history once again in the halls of the U.S. Capitol.
Last Wednesday, in a ceremony hosted by President Obama and members of Congress, Rosa Parks became the first black woman to have her full-l...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Artist in Residence Faisal Abdu#039;Allah:  quot;FauHausquot; explores sensiotics]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


ldquo;Therersquo;s an interesting article about Noble Peace Prize winners and that 80 percent of them had arts backgrounds,rdquo; says Faisal Abdursquo;Allah, the Arts Institute and the Department of Art Historyrsquo;s Spring 2013 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence at the University of...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Multicultural Explosion Step Show]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court Justice equates black voting rights with #039;racial entitlements#039;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;In the oral arguments last week before the Supreme Court to determine whether a key section of the Voting Rights Act should be upheld, Justice Antonin Scalia referred to the provision as ldquo;perpetuation of racial entitlement.rdquo;


It was the kind of comment that c...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Parks#039; Place/Gwen Moore:  Commemorating Women#039;s History Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;With more women than ever before serving in the 113th U.S. Congress, Womenrsquo;s History Month can be a time to reflect on the women who inspired so many of us to join public service, and on those who have shattered glass ceilings in other fields such as science, technology, engineering and ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Edgewood College Multicultural Explosion]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[MMSD partnership with Boys amp; Girls Club shows continued gains in closing achievement gap]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Independent assessment shows progress for low-income students and students of color


MADISON mdash; Students in the Madison Metropolitan School Districtrsquo;s Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) and the Boys amp; Girls Clubrsquo;s Teens of Promise (TOPS) programs (www.av...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;Growing up Black in South  Madisonquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Women in Focus to host quot;I have a Dreamquot; Scholarships  reception]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash;nbsp; On Sunday, April 14, Women In Focus, Inc. will recognize twelve high school students chosen to receive 2013 ldquo;I Have a Dreamrdquo; Scholarships. 
The award reception will take place at 2 p.m. in the Washburn Heritage Room of Regina Hall, Edgewood College.nbsp; Sch...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dr. Seuss Day celebrated at Chavez Elementary]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin highlights health benefits throughout Endometriosis Awareness Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Endometriosis is a leading cause of infertility in women mdash; but it can be managed effectively with hormonal birth control mdash; which Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is highlighting throughout March, Endometriosis Awareness Month. 
ldquo;Birth control is basic health care,r...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. activists converge on high court for challenge to voting rights]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA, Georgianbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash;The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday in a challenge to the constitutionality of key sections of the historic Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965.
Numerous organizations are rallying in support of the VRA. Activists across the nation, includin...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Cuba: A post-Castro future comes into focus]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[HAVANAnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; The Cuban National Assembly, the parliament, has just passed a historic milestone: the visible turning point when one momentous and complex phase in the life of the country begins to come to a close, and a door opens on a future that, however hard to predict, will in m...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Republicans advance discredited #039;entitlement#039; lies]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Even after the White House and Congress stagger to reach a last-minute deal to avert yet another budget crisis, there is a fundamental difference in approach between the Obama administration and House Republicans. And those two stark approaches to governing goes to the type of society we wan...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ending violence against women]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
March is the official month to ldquo;discussrdquo; women and it could not arrive too soon.nbsp; What is sad about both Black History Month (February) and International Womenrsquo;s Month (March) is that too many of us think that those are the only legitimate times of the year to discuss the is...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Mrs. Rosa Parks---before and after the bus]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Our minds fasten on that single moment on the bus mdash; Mrs. Parks alone in that seat, clutching her purse, staring out a window, waiting to be arrested. That moment tells us something about how change happens, or doesnrsquo;t happen . . . We so often spend our lives as if in a fog, accepting i...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of March 6, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[March 6, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Men Who  Cook]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 07, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;If she can walk for freedom, we can walk for better healthquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[




ldquo;If Harriet Tubman can walk for freedom, then we can walk for better health,rdquo; says Marilyn Ruffin. ldquo;We can do this. We need to keep each other accountable and not become another statistic.rdquo;nbsp; 
The walking revolution is set to begin on March 10. Thousands of gir...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Phitness Plus Fun amp; Wellness Fair]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Eating healthy and getting in shape with quot;Coach Woodquot;



Haywood Simmons, a former Wisconsin Badger and NFL football player, has turned his passion for sports, nutrition, fitness, and personal improvement into a lifetime calling.
Three years ago, he created Phitness Plus with the miss...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Some students have become #039;numb#039; to violence]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Many of the students at Harvard School of Excellence in the Inglewood neighborhood on Chicagorsquo;s South Side are the same age as the 20 first- and second-graders who were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School.


Aisha McCarthy, the principal of Harvard School, ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin case:  One year later]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Family raises money for foundation



Feb. 26 will mark one year since then-17-year-old Travyon Martin was gunned down by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch coordinator in a gated community of Sanford, Fla.
Martin was visiting family in the area and was walking back from the store when, des...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Parks#039; Place:  School board ldquo;racerdquo; highlights the disconnect between the two Madisons]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

nbsp;
Sarah Manski dropping out of the Madison Metropolitan School District school board race less than 48 hours after winning the primary was another swift kick in the gut to Madisonrsquo;s minority population. Manskirsquo;s husband was admitted to a sociology PhD program in Californi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW Carbone Cancer Center presents Strike against cancer]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
MADISON mdash;Bowlers from across southern Wisconsin plan to ldquo;pinrdquo; colorectal cancer by participating in the twelfth annual Bowlinrsquo; for Colons fundraiser on Sunday, March 3.
All proceeds benefit colon cancer research at the UW Carbone Cancer Center.nbsp; More than $200,0...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks with thyroid cancer fare worse than whites]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Blacks have fewer incidences of thyroid cancer but have a more advanced form of the disease once they receive a diagnosis mdash; and are more likely to die from it.
The mortality rate is probably due to an access to care issues. It has been found that Blacks had a 1 percent higher mortality rate...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Health tips for African Americans]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

You don't have to stop eating chocolate cake or start running marathons to improve your health. Making small but steady changes in your eating and activity habits -- over time -- may help you lose weight if you need to, feel better, and improve your health.
The information below can help you st...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The New University of Wisconsin-Extension Center for Inclusive and Engaged Leadership]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;Because todayrsquo;s persistent and complex issues of climate change, social inequality and economic health will require a new type of leader to address and resolve them, the University of Wisconsin-Extension has created a new resource to help shape future leaders.nbsp; 
The Center...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Audition for ROARrrr the play open to the public]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Edgewood College Theater Department is pleased to announce that the public is invited to try out for one of the 22 roles in the highly acclaimed childrenrsquo;s musical ROARrrr written by Chuck Taylor and directed by Susan Nanning-Sorenson.nbsp; The play is written for a multicultu...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Delta of the Year:  Terri Strong]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County:   Hearts for Helping]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Task force to clean up Madison-area lakes]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;nbsp; Dane County Executive Joe Parisi has signed a county resolution Feb. 25 authorizing creation of a new task force to help coordinate and oversee the important work that's underway to reduce phosphorus pollution in the Yahara Chain of Lakes.
The task force, originally introduced...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S.-health: Major audit urges devolution of U.S. AIDS program]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash;nbsp; A major audit of the United Statesrsquo; flagship global anti-HIV/AIDS program, prepared for the U.S. Congress, notes ldquo;remarkable progressrdquo; over the past decade. However, it also warns of insufficient monitoring and urges a stepped-up process of ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Israel: Released prisoners re-arrested under new order]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;OCCUPIED EAST JERUSALEMnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; The release of over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in late 2011 set off scenes of jubilation throughout the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jerusalem, as families joyously welcomed their loved ones homes after months and years apart.
But for many of thes...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[More meteors coming our way]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
We should not have been as surprised as we were. The 10-ton, 55-feet meteor that struck Russia on Friday, February 15 unleashed 500 kilotons of energy ndash;nbsp; at least 30 times that unleashed at Hiroshima in 1945.nbsp; More than a thousand people were injured and heavy damage was done in th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[What killed President Kennedy and Trayvon Martin?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
February 26 will mark one year since 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was killed by a gun wielded by self-appointed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman after he saw Trayvon walking home from a 7-Eleven with a bag of Skittles and bottle of Arizona iced tea.
Black children, youths, and families know f...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Turning the clock back on voting rights]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;Shelby County, Ala. is suing the Justice Department because they think that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (and its reauthorization in 1982 and 2006) is unfair.nbsp; The facts: The small city of Calera redistricted its boundaries in a way that the sole African American councilman ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pepsi-Cola#039;s Volunteer of  the Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2/27/2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[February 27, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 27, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County:  Hearts for Helping]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


The Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane Countyrsquo;s 4th Annual Hearts for Helping Wine and Cheese Tasting Event will be held Friday, Feb. 22 at Madison Concourse Hotel. 
ldquo;Irsquo;m really excited about this event,rdquo; says Michael Johnson, president and CEO of the Boys amp; Girls Club....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Sickle Cell Awareness Blood Drive:  Getting into the donation habit]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


For the second consecutive year, the American Red Cross is joining with the Urban League of Greater Madison and Morgridge Center for Public Service to help raise awareness about the need for a diverse blood supply. Community members are encouraged to donate blood at one of two upcoming Sickle ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[White House Aide:  quot;Obama hasn#039;t abandoned Blacksquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; President Obama has launched initiatives and backed legislation that have significantly helped African-Americans throughout his time in office even though there is a perception in some quarters that the nationrsquo;s first Black president hasnrsquo;t done as muc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Betting wrong on gentrification in Chicago]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


CHICAGO mdash; Three days after his State of The Union address, President Obama visited Chicago to talk about gun violence. The presidentrsquo;s attention to the problem was appreciated by people like Bob Bennett, who has seen the value of his home in a South Side neighborhood plummet as a r...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Become an everyday hero by giving blood during Red Cross Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Blood donors are everyday heroes who help save lives. During March, Red Cross Month, the American Red Cross recognizes these lifesavers, thanks them for their generosity and encourages others to join their ranks.
March was first proclaimed Red Cross Month in 1943 by former President...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;The Librarian and the Banjoquot;quot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Documentary tells the story of the woman who helped preserve African musical culture

nbsp;
It was not the story of the banjo that intrigued Madison filmmaker Jim Carrier, but the story of the woman who documented and preserved the banjo's origins, helping to preserve African and African America...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[WABM#039;s 5th annual Black Men#039;s Initiative Forum:  You Have The Right To Remain Educated]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The 5th annual Black Men's Initiative Forum- quot;You Have the Right to Remain Educated - The Black Male Interaction with the American Legal Systemrdquo; will be hosted by the Wisconsin Association of Black Men (WABM) this weekend.

WABM is returning with its 5th Annual Black Men...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Madison Links to present... quot;Yes, I Canquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Former Zoo Director James Hubing to be recognized]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; James Hubing, former director of the Henry VilasZoo, will be recognized with a dedication of the Treatment Room in the new Animal Health Center. 
The Henry Vilas Zoo gives sincere thanks to the John E. Wall family for its generous $150,000 donation to sponsor the Treatment Room in t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Climate change added to U.S. government ldquo;high riskrdquo; list]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash;nbsp; For the first time, a U.S. government auditor has added climate change to a list of issues that pose the greatest financial risk to the government and country. It is also warning that Washington is markedly unprepared to deal with the scope of the problem.
T...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[India: Activists demand effective laws against child labor]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[NEW DELHInbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash;After one of the six males under trial for the rape and subsequent death of a 23-year-old woman was deemed an adolescent and therefore entitled to leniency, juvenile rights activists have found themselves pitted against irate members of the public demanding death sen...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Protecting our most precious resource]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
As President Obama closed his State of the Union speech on February 12, after listing all of his other policy proposals for the nationrsquo;s future, he said: ldquo;Of course, what Irsquo;ve said tonight matters little if we donrsquo;t come together to protect our most precious resource mdash...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Lil Wayne insults the memory of Emmett Till]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 was a watershed moment, marking the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement. While visiting relatives near Money, Miss., the Chicago native was murdered for allegedly whistling at a White woman. The brutal act was intended to send an unmist...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[State of the Union on point]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
I was among the 33.5 million people who sat riveted to their televisions, parsing every second of the State of the Union address.nbsp; I was stunned to learn, through a Washington Post article by Lisa De Moraes, that viewership was less substantial for this address than last yearrsquo;s 38 milli...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Heed your heart#039;s warning signs]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 2/20/2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[MAC presents....#039;Emancipation, Freedom, Justice and Equality#039;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 20, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[JP Hair Design#039;s quot;Behind the Chairquot;:  Bringing the barbershop conversation right to your home (or smartphone)]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


The barbershop can be a tremendous information hub. Itrsquo;s a place where people can gather and have their voices heard and their opinions validated. Itrsquo;s a place to pontificate and to debate and sometimes just to listen. Thanks to the Internet and JP Hair Design, part of that barbers...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[3rd  Annual Carter Fuller Memory Screening Day]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

Many people dismiss the warning signs of Alzheimer's disease because they believe that the symptoms are a part of normal aging. Unfortunately, they are too often diagnosed too late and miss the opportunity to get the best care possible.nbsp; This is of even greater concern for African Ame...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Loss of promising black teen renews questions about continued problems of urban violence]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


CHICAGOnbsp; mdash; By all accounts, Hadiya Pendleton had everything going for her.
She was an honor roll student at King College Prep High School on Chicagorsquo;s South Side. She was a majorette in the schoolrsquo;s marching band that, just a week earlier, participated in President Bara...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on encouraging our youth with history]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[I am not convinced that there is a single savior who can fix the achievement gap alone. And though I am happy mdash; and nervous mdash; to see what bold steps will be taken in the near future with our new superintendent; I feel that entire community needs to be involved mdash; parents, pastors, m...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Community partnership helps provide pathway for success]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The Commencement of the Caminos Career Pathways Nursing Assistant Class of 2012 took place Saturday, Feb. 9 at Centro Hispano of Dane County on Madisonrsquo;s south side.
Family and community members gathered to see nine graduates honored at the ceremony for a program that was a partnership betw...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fun and Wellness Fair February 16 and 17]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Magic Johnson still scoring points after HIV diagnosis]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; There was a lot of laughter in Howard University Hospitalrsquo;s Tower Auditorium as Erwin ldquo;Magicrdquo; Johnson addressed a crowd of hospital staff and community members on National Black AIDS Day. Although, the topic was no laughing matter.
It has been 22 ye...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ray Kamalay to speak on history of slavery and music]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Free lecture, concert February 21 at Goodman South Madison Library



On Feb. 21, Ray Kamalay will be in Madison to speak about ldquo;World Slavery: The Haitian Revolution and the Rise of American Music,rdquo; a talk he will intersperse with performances of musical selections. Kamalay, a lifel...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2013 WWOCN Artful Women of Color Arts and Crafts Exhibit]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Wisconsin Women of Color Network, Inc. (WWOCN) will celebrate Womenrsquo;s History Month on Saturday, March 23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.nbsp; at Madison College, 1701 Wright Street.nbsp; The main event is the Artful Women of Color Arts and Crafts Exhibit which is open to the public.
Th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Schools of Hope is reaping success in closing racial achievement gap]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The United Way of Dane County and the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) has announced that new data show that the Schools of Hope (SOH) program is showing success in closing gaps in student achievement. The new data shows several areas of achievement in the program which in...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison Public Library---Find it at your local library]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Kids, readers, movie fans, job seekers, video gamers and even Lego builders have found what makes them happy at their local library branch. Madison Public Library (MPL) is one of the library networks that make up the South Central Library System (SCLS), a total of 54 branches in seven Wisconsi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW Experts say more focus needed on breast cancer prevention]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The federal government should make breast cancer prevention a priority and place funding for prevention at the same level as other types of research, says a sweeping new report issued by scientists and breast cancer experts. 
The report emphasizes that more resources should be direc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S.: ldquo;Divestmentrdquo; movement gaining momentum]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash;nbsp; A months-old national campaign to convince U.S. colleges, universities and city governments to withdraw investments from the worldrsquo;s largest oil and gas companies has seen some notable initial successes.
Last week, a city supervisor in San Francisco in...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Cuba: Fidel Castro votes to ldquo;update Cuban socialist modelrdquo;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;HAVANAnbsp; (IPS/GIN)nbsp; mdash;Among millions of people flocking to the polls in Cuba to vote in general elections was the unexpected figure of former president Fidel Castro, making a surprise public appearance in what was interpreted as a reaffirmation of his support for the government...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Killing black teens---literally]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The death of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old honor student at King College Prep High School on Chicagorsquo;s South Side is finally receiving the national attention that it deserves. An honor student and majorette in her schoolrsquo;s marching band, Hadiya had recently participated in President ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Whole Foods and Whole Fools]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
There is a Whole Foods store about three blocks from my home, and around the corner from my gym.nbsp; I am enamored by the displays of produce, the red peppers contrasting the yellow ones, the kale, chard, and collard glistening from their morning sprinkle. I love the way the fish gleams back at ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[February 13, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 2/13/2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Read Your Heart Out]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 14, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Board of Education Selects Dr. Jennifer Cheatham as Superintendent]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
The Madison Metropolitan Board of Education announced today that it has selected Dr. Jennifer Cheatham as Superintendent of Schools, pending successful contract negotiations.
ldquo;Jennifer Cheatham is a visionary leader with an excellent track record on narrowing the achievement gap,rdqu...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 08, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;Read Your Heart Out Dayrdquo; expands to 15 Madison-area schools]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


In honor of National African American Parent Involvement Day, quot;Read Your Heart Outquot; Day will take place on Friday, Feb. 8 at 15 schools throughout the Madison Metropolitan School District.
For the past 8 years, Michelle Belnavis, a cultural relevance instructional resource teacher (...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pilot program increases the conversations on sustainability]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[   ldquo;The purpose of the New Green Challenge is to engage households of color into a conversation about sustainability,rdquo; says Annette Miller, Emerging Markets and Community Development Manager for Madison Gas amp; Electric. ldquo;My goal is to create awareness in the African American and...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[February 7,   National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Thursday, Feb. 7, will be observed as National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. And according to activists, there is plenty that African Americans need to observe.
There are more than 1.1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the United States, including more than $510,000...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[National Wear Red Day Photo Shoot]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Carter G. Woodson#039;s group preserves black history]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; For 97 years, the Association for the Study for African American Life and History has been commemorating the accomplishments of African Americans through Black History celebrations.
In 1915, Carter G. Woodson founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life an...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Parks Place/Kaleem Caire:  It#039;s time to cast a new vision for Greater Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;Three weeks ago, one of our Urban League board members forwarded me excepts from an article written by Paul Fanlund of The Capital Times newspaper titled, quot;Can Madison Spotlight It's Urban Problems Without Tarnishing Its Image?quot; This board member, a white male, mentioned feeling quo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2013 Community Volunteer award nominations Open]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Do you know someone whorsquo;s doing great volunteer work in Dane County? Now is the time to nominate that stellar volunteer or group of volunteers for recognition through United Way of Dane Countyrsquo;s 2013 Community Volunteer Awards, the largest local volunteer recognition even...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black History Month by the Numbers]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The U.S. Census Bureau has released the following figures about Black America to coincide with African American History Month. If found them interesting enough to share.
Population
bull; 43.9 million
The number of Blacks, either alone or in combination with one or more other races, on July 1, ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Poetic essence, celebrating Black History: The Past, Present, and Future]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pepsi Cola#039;s Volunteer of  the Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Teachers Wanted!!!  ULGM and MMSD will partner to recruit teachers]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; On Wednesday, Feb. 19, the Urban League of Greater Madison (ULGM) will partner with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) in an effort to help attract new and diverse talent to fill teaching and other certified positions within the school district. The event will be held fr...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama slammed for lack of cabinet diversity]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


WASHINGTON (NNPA) ndash; President Obama has been accused of everything from not being born in America to secretly being a Muslim. But the most surprising ndash; and accurate accusation ndash; is that the nationrsquo;s first Black president has a cabinet less diverse than that of Bill Clin...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[3rd Annual Carter Fuller Memory Screening Day]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; The Alzheimer's amp; Dementia Alliance of Wisconsin in conjunction with the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and the Madison Community Foundation will host the 3rd Annual Carter Fuller Memory Screening Day on Saturday, February 16, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Ur...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Andy North hosts trivia night for UW Carbone Cancer Center]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; Andy North wants to test your trivia knowledge and raise money for cancer research.
The two-time U.S. Open champion and ESPN golf analyst will host the UW Carbone Cancer Center Trivia Night on Friday, February 22 at 6:30 p.m. at the UW Fieldhouse.nbsp; All proceeds benefit the ca...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Finance: U.S. firms stash tens of billions in tax havens, research group finds]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash;nbsp; The research arm of the U.S. Congress is warning that U.S. corporationsrsquo; use of tax havens has risen substantially in recent years, with companies offering massively inflated profit reports from small countries with loose tax regulations.
ldquo;Ampl...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Gender: Japan values women less mdash; as it needs them more]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[TOKYOnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Despite anti-discrimination laws and a steadily growing number of employed women, Japan is falling behind the rest of the world on gender equality. Widespread discrimination persists, and has only grown more subtle over the past years.
Japan is one of the worldrsquo;s...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Embracing black history]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
One hundred and fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.nbsp; It was a flawed document that freed enslaved people in Confederate areas that he did not control. At the same time, it was a progressive document because it initiated discussion about the Thirtee...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 2/6/2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[February 6, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[February 06, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2013 International Festival]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 31, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Workers#039; Rights Center celebrates 10 years]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

The Workersrsquo; Rights Center turns 10 years old this week and Director Patrick Hickey is very excited about the progress theyrsquo;ve made over the past decade. However, he knows there is still much work to be done.
ldquo;I think wersquo;ve seen some improvements mdash; particularly bec...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[African American Student Academic Services an important resource for students]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

The African American Student Academic Services (AASAS) is an essential campus agency that provides support services to African and African American undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Karla Foster is the coordinator for AASAS, which is housed under the Center for Acade...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama makes case for immigration reform]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS mdash; President Obama is pledging to negotiate with Congress on immigration legislation, but he is also working with another group: voters.

Obama flew more than 2,000 miles Jan. 29 to make his immigration pitch, visiting a politically pivotal state with a growing Hispanic population ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks bear brunt of Great Recession wealth losses]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; The Great Recession has had its greatest impact on African Americans, who saw their net wealth decrease at a rate more than four times faster than whites, according to a recent report by United for a Fair Economy, a Boston-based research group that advocates for economic eq...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[State Patrolrsquo;s super Bowl sunday safety message]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Allowing the opposing team zero points undoubtedly would lead to victory in the Super Bowl. Like the 49ers and Ravens, the State Patrol and its law enforcement partners will strive for a shutout on Super Bowl Sunday mdash; zero deaths and injuries from traffic crashes.



ldquo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Bob Marley Birthday Bash Version 5.0]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The High Noon Saloon is hosting the 5th annual Bob Marley Birthday Bash. Version 5.0 features much more of Marleyrsquo;s music spread out over two sets by Madisonrsquo;s hard roots rock reggae ambassadors Natty Nation.
Bob Marleyrsquo;s musical and cultural influences have engend...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[First Recruit academy under new Fire Chief graduates]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;The City of Madison Fire Department graduated 20 new firefighters from its recruit academy on Jan. 18 in a ceremony at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. 
It's the first class to graduate under Fire Chief Steve Davis who has made diversity a centerpiece of the Department's re...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Notice of Intent to Appoint Madison Area Technical College District Board Members]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[young african americans have not lost appreciation for black history]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Heart amp; Soul Scholarship Dance]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Two recipients selected for first Faculty and staff equity and diversity awards]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; Gina Green-Harris and Jill Boissonault have been selected as the first recipients of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Faculty and Staff Equity and Diversity Awards. Green-Harris is an outreach specialist for the Wisconsin Alzheimerrsquo;s Institute and Center for Ur...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[CBC Member says obama disrespects blacks]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (NNPA) mdash; Rep. Alcee L. Hastings says President Obama of consistently disrespects the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), the Black Press, and graduates of historically Black colleges, key groups that were critical tonbsp; his re-election in November.


Speaking Jan. 24 ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Do you believe in miracles?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Join Madison Parks and Madison Parks Foundation as we kick off the Moonlight Movie Series with an outdoor screening of the movie ldquo;Miracle on the Icerdquo; at the Tenney Park lagoon with Mark Johnson and Bob Suter, members of the 1980 ldquo;Miracle on Icerdquo; Olympic hockey...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black Veterans Request Proclamation for Buffalo Soldier]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; In a letter to President Barack Obama, the National Coalition of Black Veterans Organizations (NCBVO) asks that during the celebration of Black History Month in February mdash; a presidential proclamation be issued that elevates legendary Buffalo Soldier Col. Char...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Cambodia: Bike makers exploit wages lower than Chinarsquo;s or Thailandrsquo;s]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[PHNOM PENHnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Cambodiarsquo;s export business is in the process of expanding due to rising wages in other parts of Asia. A business publication in the country has reported unexpected growth in the ldquo;machinery and transport equipmentrdquo; sector and speculated it was ldq...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[obama races away from the issues of race]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[When Barack Obama accepted his partyrsquo;s presidential nomination in Denver on August 28, 2008 mdash; the 45th anniversary of the March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his ldquo;I Have a Dream Speechrdquo; ndash; excitement filled the air.
Amid that jubilance, howev...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama slights his loyal following]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has the opportunity, in this second term, to put his feet on history.nbsp; He won an election that his opponent had essentially claimed, he has been firm about that which he would negotiate on, and he has offered a progressive inauguration speech that offers up a liberal agen...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of January 30, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 30, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Wisconsinrsquo;s 33rd annual Tribute and Ceremony honoring MLK:  Fuller, Groppi honored for commitment to racial justice]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Hundreds of people gathered Jan. 21 to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the 33rd annual State of Wisconsin Tribute and Ceremony honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at the state Capitol building.
ldquo;Welcome to Wisconsinrsquo;s 33rd annual tribute and ceremony honoring a man who lived a...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[28th annual City of Madison and Dane County Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observance  quot;Moving Forward: Remember ... Celebrate hellip; Act!quot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[





The UW-Madison First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community stole the show with a dynamic performance at the 28th annual Dane County and City of Madison Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Observance Jan. 21.
The King Holiday Observance, which was held at the Overture Center's Capito...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama opens second term with a bold return to his base]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
nbsp;
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Rejecting calls for him to move closer toward his Republican critics, a confident President Barack H. Obama kicked off his second term on Monday by making an impassioned plea for a more inclusive America.
ldquo;It is not our generationrsquo;s task to carr...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on the dreamer nearly 50 years later]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Happy birthday, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!
I appeared on WIBA 1310 AM Radio this past Monday on Mitch Henckrsquo;s ldquo;Outside The Boxrdquo; show to talk about Dr. Kingrsquo;s legacy and what it means to me and the American people. (Mitch and I have co-hosted a segment on WIBA for the ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fresh Food Market on south side moves forward]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dane County is moving forward with an exciting new public/private partnership with the potential to create dozens of jobs and address one of South Madisonrsquo;s food deserts in the Southdale Neighborhood in Madison, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced today. 
Urban Assets h...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[St. Mary#039;s Hospital Minority Health Care Scholarship]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; St. Maryrsquo;s Hospital is pleased to announce applications are now being accepted for the hospitalrsquo;s Minority Health Care Scholarship Program. The objective of the program is to provide financial assistance to individuals with interest and commitment to pursuing a health car...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[International Festival .... when local goes global!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; International Festival will be celebrated Sunday, Jan. 27, at the Overture Center in downtown Madison. Experience a rich tapestry of cultures woven by Dane County artists featuring arts, crafts, food, and performances representing more than 25 cultures, International Festival is a de...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Kingrsquo;s greatest legacy: Seeing polarization as progress]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Irsquo;ve always disliked the way Martin Luther King, Jr.rsquo;s birthday is often celebrated.
The reasons why became even clearer to me these past few days, as the importance of considering Kingrsquo;s life and work was juxtaposed against three other developments: the 150th anniversary of t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Women In Focus quot;I Have A Dreamquot; Ball]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[4K offered in 90 percent of school districts]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Early learning opportunities for 4-year-olds are offered in 90 percent of the statersquo;s public school districts that provide elementary education, a continuation of the expansion that began a dozen years ago as research supported the importance of 4-year-old kindergarten (4K).
...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. Opposition to corporate political spending gains momentum]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Activists and watchdog groups across the United States unveiled a new national push on Thursday to urge policymakers to roll back a controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision that led to the unprecedented spending of about 6 billion dollars, much of it untraceable, ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[India: Some call for death ndash; others call for justice]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;NEW DELHInbsp; (IPS/GIN)nbsp; mdash;nbsp; 
On a chilly Wednesday evening, exactly a month after a young woman was gang-raped and brutalized on a moving bus in New Delhi, hundreds of somber citizens gathered at a candlelight protest in Indiarsquo;s national capital.
They had come to reme...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[How we can truly honor dr. Martin Luther King Jr.]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
In his last Sunday sermon at Washington National Cathedral, Dr. King retold the parable of the rich man Dives who ignored the poor and sick man Lazarus who came every day seeking crumbs from Divesrsquo; table. Dives went to hell, Dr. King said, not because he was rich but because he did not...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Lance Armstrong was following an American tradition]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Who is surprised that Lance Armstrong was doping?nbsp; Who thinks he was the only one?nbsp; Who is surprised that he used the Oprah Winfrey show as his platform to ldquo;come cleanrdquo;?nbsp; We are a nation of cheaters and Armstrong is one in a long line of our nationrsquo;s cheaters.
Indee...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Hands off Malia and Sasha Obama]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

Just when you think leaders of the National Rifle Association canrsquo;t stoop any lower, they keep managing to plunge even deeper. This time, they have strayed way over the line of respectability by using Malia and Sasharsquo;s enrollment in Sidwell Friends, a private Quaker school, to ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[obama stands on the shoulders of 50 years of history]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;You can kill a man, but you canrsquo;t kill an idea.rdquo;
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; mdash; Medgar Evers, slain Civil Rights leader
When President Obama took the oath of office on Monday, he was surrounded by an extraordinary legacy of 50-year civil rights milestones that helped make po...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 1/23/2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr. Youth Service Day]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 23, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[MLK  Community Events]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Common Council hopeful ready to go to work for Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[  ldquo;I have a passion for this community. I have a passion for playing a role in helping Madison make real the greatness that we all hope for and imagine about and remember about the city,rdquo; says Maurice Cheeks. ldquo;Irsquo;m not just talking about a greatness for some; but for all who l...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison and Dane County announce annual Martin Luther King Jr. awards]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and City of Madison Mayor Paul Soglin have announced the recipients of the combined City-County Humanitarian Award honoring the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.nbsp; The award winners, selected by the City-County Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Innovation Team Meetings:  Working on solutions together]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ldquo;Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.rdquo;nbsp;
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; mdash;Margaret Mead




For community organizers, this quote from Marga...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[What would King think?  Some SCLC-groomed leaders are still in the trenches]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

African Americans have been the most rapidly advancing oppressed people in the history of the world, according to some major historians. To come from brutal and hard slavery, with virtually no legal basic human rights, to rise to lawmakers, local leaders, and ultimately the presidency of the Uni...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[TDS Telecom supports program to protect victims and witnesses of crime]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dane County Executive Joe Parisi and Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne thanked TDS Telecom for their continued support and $32,478 donation to the Crime Response
Program, a 24/7 operation run by Dane County that provides protection and support for victims and witnesses of ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Regulation: U.S. to take closer look at flood of corporate political spending]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Civil society actors and the some corporate groups here are reacting with excitement to indications that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which regulates the countryrsquo;s stock exchanges, is likely to take up discussion over new rules tha...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Migration: Closing Europersquo;s borders becomes big business]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp; ATHENS/WARSAW (IPS/GIN) mdash; The European Union is implementing a new border management system with tougher migration control the core aim. Major security and weapons companies are already reaping the benefits.
Frontex, the EU border agency, has financed major weapons and security equipme...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[NUL launches ldquo;Jobs Rebuild americardquo; initiative]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;We urge that a comprehensive jobs program be developed and executed by way of a partnership that includes government, the private sector and the nationrsquo;s non-profit community.rdquo; November 7 National Urban League letter to President Obama, John Boehner, and Nancy Pelosi
The Decemb...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Connecting MLK with Obama]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
One hundred and fifty years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.nbsp; It was a flawed document that freed enslaved people in Confederate areas that he did not control. At the same time, it was a progressive document because it initiated discussion about the ldquo;...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[WISC-TVrsquo;s ldquo;For The Recordrdquo; to feature Dr. Richard Harris Jan. 20]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dr. Richard Harris will be interviewed by Neil Heinen of WISC-TV on For The Record Sunday, Jan. 20, 10 a.m. They will be discussing Dr. Harrisrsquo;s new book ldquo;Growing Up Black in South Madison.rdquo;
In his new book, Dr. Harris describes life in Madison as he perceived it f...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ruben studdard to highlight BGCDC fund-raiser]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[On Friday, Feb. 22, the Boys amp; Girls Club (BGCDC) will host its 4th Annual Hearts for Helping Wine amp; Cheese Tasting featuring former American Idol winner Ruben Studdard and six-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
This elegant evening of food, fun, and music will be held at the Madis...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New Year, New You?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 1/16/2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[3rd Annual Carter Fuller Memory Screening Day/MLK Events]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[January 16, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Beyond Vietnam:  A Time to Break Silence]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 16, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[School board candidate has passion for education]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;


As a candidate for the Madison Metropolitan School Districtrsquo;s Board of Education in this upcoming spring election, Ananda Mirillirsquo;s chief desire is to be an advocate on behalf of students, parents, teachers, and diverse communities that thirst for a more just, equitable, and ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison and Dane County announce 28th annual MLK Holiday Observance activities]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Madison/Dane County King Coalition is pleased to announce that the official City of Madison amp; Dane County observance of the 2013 King Holiday will feature Reverend Everett Mitchell of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church as this yearrsquo;s Master of Ceremonies along with a ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Substance abuse fuels incarceration rates for black men]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;A recent study reports that treating substance abusers, especially African Americans, could save the nation billions of dollars at a time when all eyes are glued to debates over how to solve the countryrsquo;s national debt.
The study by research...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Gloria Reyes to lead Centro board of directors]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

MADISON mdash;The board of directors for Centro Hispano of Dane County held elections on Thursday, Jan. 3, to elect officers for their executive board. Gloria Reyes was elected president of the board of directors and will succeed Brenda Gonzalez, who brought exemplary leadership and dedication ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Latino Chamber of Commerce hosting networking event]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;The Latino Chamber of Commerce and State Farm is pleased to invite you to the next Networking Event Thursday, Jan. 17, 6-8 p.m. at the State Farm New Agency, 3602 Atwood Avenue Suite 4 M. 
The Latino Chamber of Commercersquo;s mission is to maximize economic development and job creation thro...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Habitat for Humanity joins $6.8 million Thrivent national homebuilding effort in 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; Habitat for Humanity of Dane County has been awarded $65,500 to build a home in Fitchburgrsquo;s Renaissance on the Park Neighborhood, adjacent to the Allied Dunnrsquo;s Marsh Neighborhood.
The grant provides 50 percent of the cost of construction, and was given to Habitat f...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[YWCA seeks Women of Distinction nominations]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash;The community is filled with amazing women who work tirelessly to make life better for others. On May 23, the YWCA Madison will honor five of these women at the 39th annual Women of Distinction Awards. 
Awards are presented to women who represent diversity of race, age, occupat...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Next budget showdown could lead to more cuts]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) ndash; After blinking during in a New Yearrsquo;s Day showdown with President Obama that could have triggered across-the-board spending cuts and significant tax increases, Republicans are poised to seek deep cuts in spending that would violate the ldquo;balancedrdquo; approach ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pepsi Cola#039;s Volunteer of the  Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Graffiti artist uses her #039;canvas#039; to teach gender equality]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

RIO DE JANEIROnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Anarkia Boladona has turned the streets of Brazil into billboards against domestic violence. As a self-titled feminist political graffiti artist, she represents a new trend in womenrsquo;s rights that seeks less academic and more daring and popular avenues...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Barhost retiring from Madison College]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Madison Area Technical College President Bettsey Barhorst announced her plans to retire during a morningrsquo;s convocation on Jan. 7 with faculty. She said she aims to retire by July 1.
Barhost has spent 45 years in higher education, including the last eight as president of Madiso...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[FBI Targeted Occupy Movement]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) mdash; The year was 1967 and Aretha Franklinrsquo;s new single ldquo;Respectrdquo; was a big hit. But respect was sorely lacking in Black neighborhoods as summer riots erupted in Newark, Detroit and other cities.
Itrsquo;s also the year that FBI head J. Edgar Hoover sent t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Cubans see Internet as crucial to future development]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[HAVANA (IPS/GIN) mdash; The Cuban governmentrsquo;s economic reforms must consider the myriad opportunities offered by the Internet, a key platform of the dominant economic model on the planet, according to interviews with both experts and average people.
ldquo;It is not an option for our future...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Wilmington Ten pardons:  Black press at its best]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
When then-National Newspaper Publishers Association Chairman Danny Bakewell, Sr. asked me to emcee the Black Press Week luncheon at the National Press Club in 2011, I had no idea that I would be witnessing history. At the urging of Wilmington Journal Publisher Mary Alice Thatch, the NNPA decided t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New year#039;s resolutions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
As New Yearrsquo;s Eve countdowns wound down, many people turned to the familiar ritual of taking stock of where they are now to make resolutions for what they can do better in the new year. We all measure our accomplishments and shortcomings in different ways. Some people count numbers on ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Triumphs and Tragedies of 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;I miss you baby girl. Sweet caramel princess. African American, Puerto Rican Canadian with a wee bit of Irishhellip;We will honor your classmates you loved so dearly too. As well as the teachers and staff. Love wins.rdquo; mdash; Nelba Marquez-Greene, the mother of 6-year-old Sandy Hook ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[influencing Barack obamarsquo;s second act]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[There is a different feel in the air, and it should not be surprising.nbsp; As historic as was the re-election of President Obama, nothing can replace the uniqueness of the opening of his first term four years ago.nbsp; The expectations; the history that was made; the level of excitementhellip;it...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[28th Annual City of Mdison amp; Dane County King Holiday Observance]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of January 9, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[January 9, 2013]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Tres Reyes Magos]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[January 09, 2013]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2013 MLK Youth Day of Service and Science:]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was all about service. "Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve," he said. Madison-area students are once again preparing to honor Dr. King and to take a day on, not off, as they take part in the annual MLK Youth Day of Service and Science Jan. 21 at the Wiscon...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[La Movida helps raise $11,000]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
LaMovida Radio 1480 AM hosted a Radiothon to benefit the Catholic Multicultural Center (CMC) Dec. 14 that helped raised community awareness about the many great things that the center does and the many people it helps. By the end of the day, they had also raised $10,900 for CMC, located on M...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New Chamber president has ambitious plans for Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


When the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce tapped Zach Brandon to be their new president less than a month ago, they knew they were getting somebody with entrepreneurial expertise, community knowledge, and depth of experience in the public and private sectors. But they were also getting some...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Violence quot;as American as cherry piequot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; In the late 1960s, Black revolutionary H. Rap Brown, now known as Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, was often quoted as saying violence is ldquo;as American as cherry pie.rdquo; More than 40 years after the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) firebrand made that pro...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The seven priciples of Kwanzaa]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Youth smoking rates plummet to all-time lows]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Wisconsinrsquo;s youth smoking rates have hit an all-time low, showing significant decreases in the last two years, according to a state survey released this week by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
The 2012 Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) found high school smoking decreased...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Educations summit--a call to action (Dr. Howard Fuller#039;s keynote address)]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

nbsp;
An event aimed at examining ways to get rid of achievement gaps and create winning schools and students took place Dec. 7 in Madison.nbsp; The 2012 Educate to Elevate Education Innovation Summit was hosted by the Urban League of Greater Madison (ULGM) and held at the Monona Terrace.nbs...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Evers proposes additional bilingual-bicultural aid for schools]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; State Superintendent Tony Evers is proposing increased funding for the statersquo;s bilingual-bicultural (BLBC) aid program as well as establishing a new grant program to help meet the needs of school districts serving an increasingly diverse and bilingual student population.
Evers...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[#039;Tis the Season to Think Safety]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Palestinian non-violent resistance leader speaks in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Iyad Burnat:nbsp; Non-violence in actionnbsp;
nbsp;

On Sunday afternoon, Dec. 16nbsp;nbsp; citizens of the Madison area were fortunate to hear a presentation by Iyad Burnat, a Palestinian farmer and leader in non-violent protests currently on a four-month speaking tour of the United States....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New form of cell division found]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center have discovered a new form of cell division in human cells.
They believe it serves as a natural back-up mechanism during faulty cell division, preventing some cells from going down a path that can lead to cancer.
ldq...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[States closing prisons as inmates decline]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) mdash; A new report just released by The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C., based nonprofit that advocates for prison reform, shows that in at least thirteen states there had been enough of a decline in the state prison population to begin closing some facilities.
T...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Education: Students stuck with error-filled textbooks in Afghanistan]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[KABUL (IPS/GIN) mdash; New textbooks, printed as part of an ambitious multi-million dollar exercise to reform the curriculum in Afghan public schools, have been found to contain glaring mistakes, adding yet another burden on a cash- and resource-strapped sector of this war-torn country.
The minist...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Seven affirmations of peace for the Christmas Season]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; mdash;Luke 2:14nbsp;
Instead of weeks until Christmas Day, we are counting days. Yet, I am still stringing lights and wrapping beribboned garland around the stair...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[One week, two sides of Obama]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Over the span of one week, two different sides of President Obama emerged in different yet unforgettable terms. This first was political, involving Susan Ricersquo;s decision to withdraw her name as a candidate for Secretary of State. The second was deeply personal in the wake of mass murders in ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dear God! When will it stop?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
The horrendous news from Newtown, Conn. has pierced our hearts. A black-clad man in his 20s armed with two semi-automatic handguns, entered the Sandy Hook Elementary School and made an elementary school for kindergartners through fourth graders the scene of the worst mass shooting in a publi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of December 19, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County#039;s Creative and Performing Arts Ribbon Cutting]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 19, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Advocates for education reform make their case at ULGM#039;s Educate to Elevate]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


ldquo;There are all kinds of issues mdash;social welfare, poverty mdash; but we too often say, ldquo;Sorry. Thatrsquo;s their problem,rsquo; said 9-time Grammy-award-winning Ramp;B musician John Legend. ldquo;But thatrsquo;s when the problem never gets solved. And lsquo;sorryrsquo; ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Building community relationships]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

As community relations director at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Everett Mitchell builds strong bonds between the university and the many members of the Madison and Dane County communities. 
ldquo;The university has strategic relationships with many different organizations including som...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks, Latinos make up two-thirds of under-banked]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[More than 37 million American households were either unbanked or under-banked in 2011, according to a new report by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). African-American households represent 34 percent of all under-banked consumers, the highest percentage among demographics surveyed.
W...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black unemployment drops faster than for whites]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;The black unemployment rate fell to 13.2 percent in November, down from 14.3 percent the previous month. The decrease of 1.1 percent was a sharper drop than for Whites (6.8 percent, from 7 percent in October) and Latinos (10 percent, the same as for the previous month)...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[lsquo;Tis the season to be caring and faithful]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ldquo;Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.rdquo; When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ldquo;Letr...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Enis Ragland honored with 2012 Jeffrey Clay Erlanger Award]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Mayor Paul Soglin has announced that Enis Ragland has been selected as the recipient of the sixth annual Jeffrey Clay Erlanger Civility in Public Discourse Award. The award was presented at the Common Council meeting on Tuesday night, Dec. 11.
The award was created by the Common Cou...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Growing Up Black in South Madison book signings]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dr. Richard Harris will hold a book signing for his just-released book,quot;Growing Up Black in South Madisonquot; on Sunday, Dec. 16 after the 8 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. masses at Mt. Zion Baptist Church.


nbsp;Dr. Harris describes life in Madison as he perceived it from 1940-1970...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Marimba Quartet  to play annual Our Gift To You Concert]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;The Madison Marimba Quartet (MMQ) will perform the 17th annual Our Gift To You free concert on Saturday, Dec. 29, 1 p.m. in the afternoon at Mills Concert Hall on the UW campus. Quartet members Laura Guse, Tim Gruber, Tom Shaver, and Jim Latimer team together to rehearse and perform this ldqu...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[County employees celebrate Aaron Rodgers Day by wearing Packers gear, donating to MACC Fund]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE mdash;nbsp; Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele is marking Aaron Rodgers Day, Wednesday, Dec. 12 (12/12/12), by encouraging all County employees to wear Packers jerseys or shirts to work. Abele is also encouraging employees to show their support by donating $12 to the MACC Fund.
ldq...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nominations sought for the 27th Annual  Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Rights: U.N. Disabilities Treaty rejected by U.S. Senate]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) mdash; Underlining the persistent power of their partyrsquo;s most right-wing elements, a majority of Republican senatorsnbsp; last week blocked ratification of the long-pending International Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD).
Sen. John McCai...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Violence against Afghan women on the rise]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[KABULnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Afghan women are no strangers to gender-based violence. For decades now, violent crimes against women have been heading for epic proportions, as young girls are forced into marriage, wives and daughters are abused, and women are dealt harsh punishments for lsquo;moral ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Word and number games played in fiscal showdown]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[It should be embarrassing enough that President Obama and House Republicans postponed making tough fiscal decisions by kicking the can down the road to New Yearrsquo;s Day mdash; when certain automatic budget cuts will go into effect unless they act to avoid what is called a fiscal cliff. Instead ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[What about Kasandra Perkins?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[By now, itrsquo;s old news that Kasandra Perkins was murdered by Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher, who was her boyfriend and the father of her daughter. By now wersquo;ve read about how great a teammate Belcher was, how dedicated to his girlfriend and daughter. Wersquo;ve read his...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blackballed ndash; One manrsquo;s fight against employment discrimination]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Stephen Manley, 36, is not your typical Black male.
Not only does Manley have a bachelorrsquo;s degree in Legal Studies from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, he also carries a Masters of Business Administration with an emphasis on Information Technology from Western Governors University in ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Leaders craft a ldquo;black agendardquo; for President Obama]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; After a four-hour meeting of some the best minds in civil rights, business, education and the media, dozens of Black leaders from across the nation outlined a ldquo;Black agendardquo; that would be presented to President Barack Obama andnbsp; Congress early next year.
T...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Experimenting with poverty]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Newark Mayor Corey Booker, following the example of Phoenixnbsp; Mayor Greg Stanton, is accepting a challenge to live on a $35 food stamp budget for one week.nbsp; Mr. Mayor will add to his resume of shoveling snow and rescuing a woman from a burning house this latest feat that some news reporters...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 12/12/12]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[December 12, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison Links#039; Third Annual Community Luncheon]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 13, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison Linksrsquo; 3rd annual Community Recognition amp; Scholarship Luncheon]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER TO FEATURE SHAHANNA MCKINNEY-BALDON

nbsp;
The Madison Metropolitan Chapter of The Links, Incorporated will host its 3rd annual Community Recognition amp; Scholarship Luncheon on Saturday, Dec. 8 at the Madison Marriott West.nbsp; 
ldquo;The proceeds of the luncheon wi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Melly Mel#039;s Restaurant expands]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ANOTHER STEP FOR MADISON'S FAVORITE SOUL FOOD SPOT



When people in Madison crave tasty soul food and good down-home cooking, they make the trip to Melly Melrsquo;s, located in the basement of the Genesis Center on Madisonrsquo;s south side. And thanks to a remodeling project last week, Melly...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[World Aids Day was December 1:  HIV/AIDS take heavy toll on black youth]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;Although Black and Latina youth represent only 35 percent of all U.S. teenagers, they accounted for 84.4 percent of all newly HIV-infected teenagers in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Blacks ages 13 through 24 accounted for more th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[In the land of plenty, many black families still go hungry]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; As millions of families gather for marathon eating sessions across the nation this holiday season, Black families will worry about where their next meal is coming from at a rate that is twice that of Whites, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
While the nati...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[TRACKING KALEEM: Health and Fitness Challenge]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
quot;Take good care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.quot;nbsp; mdash;Jim Rohn



Obesity is one of the most serious health issues affecting the United States today.nbsp; People who are considered obese are at a much higher risk for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and ev...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[16th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Festival]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pepsi Cola#039;s Volunteer of the Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[John Legend headlines ULGM educational event]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[lsquo;Fiscal cliffrsquo; might push poor, blacks over the edge]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; If Republicans and Democrats donrsquo;t reach a 12th hour deal to avoid the ldquo;fiscal cliff,rdquo; many lower-and middle-income families will feel deep pain, according to analysis by economists and respected think tanks.
The Budget Control Act, set to expire at the...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[African American leaders convened in Washington]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
President Obamarsquo;s decisive victory in this yearrsquo;s presidential election signaled a shift in both demographics and attitude in America. While 93 percent of African American voters supported Obama, his victory reflected a cross-section of America, including substantial numbers of W...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nigerian Youth meet with Dane County Youth in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Two recipients to receive groundbreaking Hip-Hop scholarship]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

MADISON mdash;High school students don't typically win at the Soul Train Music Awards. But on Sunday, Nov. 25, two young artists held their breath for an announcement that could change their lives.
The Hip Hop Sisters Network announced Miona Short of Chicago and Hiwot Adilow of Philadelp...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Bielema headed to Arkansas]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;nbsp; Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema has taken the vacant coaching position at Arkansas, according to multiple reports. The school is expected to introduce Bielema at a Dec. 5 press conference.
Bielema, who has led the Badgers to three straight Rose Bowl appearances, owns a 68-24...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. Senate passes new sanctions on Iran]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) mdash; The U.S. Senate approved a new round of economic sanctions against Iran Friday, ignoring warnings by the White House that the additional measures could prove counter-productive to the goal of persuading Iran to curb its nuclear program.
The 94-0 vote, which was im...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Rights: Palestinians welcome U.N. upgrade hesitantly]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank (IPS/GIN) mdash; Thousands of Palestinians gathered throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip Thursday, including representatives of all the major political factions, to celebrate and to show their support for the Palestinian Authorityrsquo;s bid for upgraded status at t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Cashing in on the ldquo;Looteryrdquo;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
I remember when I was about 7 or 8 years of age, the two elderly ladies who lived downstairs from my family would give me a ladiesrsquo; handkerchief tied in a knot with some coins and a piece of paper inside.nbsp; They would have me walk up the street and give it to another lady about two or th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The right-wing witch hunt against Susan Rice]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Media Matters, the media monitoring group, has published a report titled, ldquo;Myths And Facts About The Right-Wing Witch Hunt Against Susan Rice.rdquo; It is a point-by-point rebuttal of some of the most flagrant lies being about United Nations Ambassador Susan E. Rice, President Obamarsquo;s...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The season to be careful]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Okay, Irsquo;ll admit it.nbsp; I am truly the Grinch who wanted to steal Christmas.nbsp; It takes me until about December 23 to get in the spirit, and I only feel obligated to find gifts for children and close family.nbsp; I like to give, which is why I share with a few charities that are clos...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of December 5, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[December 5, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Latino Chamber of Commerce 2012 Gala]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[December 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;Growing up Black in South Madisonquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


What was South Madison like for African Americans in the lsquo;40s, lsquo;50s, and lsquo;60s? Not too many people really know.nbsp; One man that does is Dr. Richard Harris, president of Genesis Social Service Corporation on Madison's south side, and his new book ldquo;Growing Up Black in ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[MOSES launched at 11x15 campaign rally]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[FOUNTAIN OF LIFE HOSTS POWERFUL EVENT




Over 200 people turned out Nov. 18 to celebrate the founding of MOSES mdash; Madison Organizing on Strength, Equality, and Solidarity mdash; and to voice their support for its goal of halving Wisconsinrsquo;s prison population by the end of 2015. Wis...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[ULGMrsquo;s ldquo;Educate to Elevaterdquo; Education Innovation Summit]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[JOHN LEGEND, GEOFFREY CANADA TO HIGHLIGHT GROUNDBREAKING FORUM







The Urban League of Greater Madison has been on the cutting edge of being innovative and proactive to close Madisonrsquo;s gap in school achievement and graduation rates. The Urban League will continue that momentum by br...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nominations sought for the 27th Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian Award]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Lawmakers ponder fiscal cliff, blacks already in poverty ditch]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; More than 11 million Blacks lived below the poverty line in 2011, including an estimated 5.2 million that languish in severe poverty, according to a recent report.
The yearly report by the Half in Ten campaign found that, even though Blacks comprise 13 percent of the...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[I laughed until I cried: A reflection on my one-pound miracle girlrsquo;s 16th birthday]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

(I journaled this when Lexi was just a few months old and still in her incubator)
Dear Lexi,nbsp; I heard you cry for the very first time yesterday. . .I laughed for the first time in a very, very long time.nbsp; You see, your birth was so premature that your lungs hadnrsquo;t developed full...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Boys amp; Girls Club:  Holiday Photos for Families]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; After conducting a national search, the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce board of directors found its ideal candidate in its own backyard. Local leader Zach Brandon has been named president of the Chamber. Brandon, 39, replaces Jennife]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; After conducting a national search, the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce board of directors found its ideal candidate in its own backyard. Local leader Zach Brandon has been named president of the Chamber. Brandon, 39, replaces Jennifer Alexander, who is retiring after nearly nine...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[County Executive Names Mark Clarke Director of Countyrsquo;s Alliant Energy Center]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dane County Executive Joe Parisi has announced that he has chosen Mark Clarke, General Manager of World Dairy Expo, as his new Executive Director for Dane Countyrsquo;s Alliant Energy Center (AEC).
nbsp;Clarke has managed World Dairy Expo, one of the largest industry trade shows i...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Robin Roberts home for Thanksgiving after battling virus]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK mdash; Good Morning America (GMA) talk show co-host Robin Roberts returned home for Thanksgiving Day after a virus following her bone marrow transplant landed her back in the hospital.
Roberts, who received the bone marrow transplant from sister, Sally-Ann Roberts, said the latent virus w...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trade: Guyana seeks to shield gold miners from mercury ban]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[GEORGETOWN, Guyananbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; As regional delegates meet to discuss a legally binding ban on the use of mercury this week, Guyanese officials are arguing that an exception should be made for the South American countryrsquo;s lucrative gold mining sector until an acceptable alternative ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Scrambling to provide a good education]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Federal housing assistance recipients usually do not reside in areas near high performing schools, keeping many educational opportunities from reaching poor and minority students, according to a recent study by the D.C.-based Poverty amp; Race Research Action Council (PR...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A lsquo;perversersquo; move by the National Black Chamber of Commerce]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[I have enjoyed an excellent relationship with the National Black Chamber of Commerce over the years. I have conducted media training sessions at national conventions, spoken at functions sponsored by state and local affiliates, and enjoyed a friendship with many of its top officers, including presid...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Not all public policy is created equal]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Discussions of the fiscal cliff also include discussions about ways to change Social Security and Medicare benefits in order to save money.nbsp; One of the proposals is to raise the Social Security retirement age to 70.nbsp; After all, some argue, there is nothing magic about 65 or 67, so why no...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of November 28, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nehemiah#039;s 20th Anniversary Celebration]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Goodman Community Center helps young adult reach his potential]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Most 16 year olds are worried about little, frivolous things in life mdash; what to wear to school, when to study for an upcoming biology quiz, or where to shop at the mall.
Desmond Willingham, at age 16, was worried if he was going to find a place to sleep at night. Every night. Worse, he was...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Hamdan, Caire honored for community work]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

The Mentoring Positives Inc. 8th Anniversary Fundraiser was held Nov. 10 at the Town Center at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
ldquo;I am truly honored to say a few words on the behalf of Mentoring Positives,rdquo; said keynote speaker and Madison Chief of Police Noble Wray. ldquo;Th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Hamdan, Caire honored for community work]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

The Mentoring Positives Inc. 8th Anniversary Fundraiser was held Nov. 10 at the Town Center at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery.
ldquo;I am truly honored to say a few words on the behalf of Mentoring Positives,rdquo; said keynote speaker and Madison Chief of Police Noble Wray. ldquo;Th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The ABC#039;s on Medicare coverage plans]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
December 7 is a critical deadline many do not want to miss. Open enrollment for Medicare Part C and Part D is currently underway and will come to an end on that date. The deadline comes quickly, and if it passes, a door closes for people whorsquo;ve been receiving Medicare and want to chang...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court to hear Voting Rights Act Challenge]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
WASHINGTON (NNAP) mdash; After hearing oral arguments earlier on whether an affirmative action program at the University of Texas is constitutional, the United States Supreme Court has agreed to review a challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, paving the way for the court to rule on two...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Happy 20th anniversary to south Madison#039;s Nehemiah Corporation!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
I can hardly believe that it was 20 years ago that I left my job at UW-Madison in order to establish the Nehemiah Community Development Corporation. This has been an incredible journey!
I can clearly remember how the pieces of this vision began to come together...
bull; In the early lsquo;90s,...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison Metropolitan Chapter of The Links, Inc., to host Community recognition Luncheon December 8]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; The Madison Metropolitan Chapter of The Links, Incorporated will hold its Third Annual Community Recognition amp; Scholarship Luncheon on Saturday, December 8, starting with a social hour at 11:30 a.m. and the luncheon at 12:30 p.m. at the Madison Marriott West. Tickets can be...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership celebrates 20 years on November 16]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; Nehemiah, a southside community-based urban leadership development organization which strengthens Madison's African American youth and families, is turing 20 years old. 
As the African American family here in Madison struggles beneath the weightiness of unemployment, drug abuse, c...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[100 Black Men of Madison once again host quot;Toy Raiserquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Last year, 100 Black Men of Madison, Inc. (100 BMM), in cooperation with area businesses, the United States Marine Corp Reserve, and civic-minded individuals, collected 1,243 toys for area disadvantaged youth during its inaugural Christmas Community Celebration in Support of Toys for...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Independent Madison-area high school to nourish critical thinking, active learning]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Six informational sessions for prospective students and their parents are scheduled in the coming weeks to introduce the community to a new high school. It offers an evidence-based, innovative approach to education that creates a stimulating environment for learning.
nbsp;quot;Act...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks key to Obama#039;s victory]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINTON (NNPA) mdash; Despite efforts in some states to suppress the Black vote and predictions that African-Americans would not turn out at the rate they did in 2008, Blacks overcame all obstacles and were key to Obamarsquo;s re-election to a second term, an analysis of voting data shows.

...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison Childrenrsquo;s Museum receives   KidShare Program grant]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Madison Childrenrsquo;s Museum (MCM) announced today that it will receive one of 12 grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The funds will be used by MCM to design a Learning Lab that provides todayrsquo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. voters punish Republicans for ldquo;reckless obstructionrdquo;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) mdash; Despite a bitterly and closely fought presidential campaign fuelled by record financial backing, analysts sifting through Tuesdayrsquo;s national election results here are forecasting a period of introspection for the opposition Republican Party that could ease the grid...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[China opens Communist Party Congress]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;DOHAnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Chinarsquo;s ruling Communist Party has launched its national congress, a pivotal event that ushers in a new set of top leaders for the next decade.
More than 2,200 delegates gathered at Beijingrsquo;s Great Hall of the People on Thursday for the start of the we...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama should thank Jesse Jackson for winning formula]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
President Obamarsquo;s campaign strategists are receiving a lot of richly deserved praise in the wake of the presidentrsquo;s victory over former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Nov. 6. Obama, who lost the majority of the White vote for the second time, won the election by assembling a progres...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Avoid taking a holiday from Heart Health]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pepsi Cola#039;s Volunteer of the Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 11/14/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[6th Annual Black Women#039;s Expo and Job Fair]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Mt. Zion Baptist Church seeks administrative assistant]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[President Obama in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[(Photos by Jeanne Erickson)
Thousands gathered in front of City Hall Nov. 5 as President Barack Obama returned to Madison one last time on the eve of the national presidential election.
Rock legend Bruce Springsteen, who had previously joined Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in 2004 at...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The power of spoken word continues to grow in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Sabrina quot;Heymiss Progressquot; Madison is on a mission to continue the expansion of Madisonrsquo;s bustling spoken-word poetry scene. Her Word is Bond Poetry Slam this Saturday night, Nov. 10, at the Urban League of Greater Madison will feature some of Madisonrsquo;s best and brightest t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Vital information and networking at one stop]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


The sixth annual Black Womenrsquo;s Business Expo and Job Fair will be held at Genesis Enterprise Center Saturday, November 10.
The Black Womenrsquo;s Expo and Job Fair is one of the only expos in the area that is specifically geared toward African American women and for the past six years,...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Legal experts say pardons deserved in Wilmington Ten]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WILMINGTON, N.C. (NNPA) ndash; Revelations about former Assistant New Hanover County District Attorney James ldquo;Jayrdquo; Stroud Jr.rsquo;s racial jury gerrymandering, and his plot to cause a mistrial to impanel a ldquo;KKKrdquo; type jury in the Wilmington Ten case forty years ago were ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Boys amp; Girls Club and local community groups partner to quot;give thanksquot; and feed over families in need on Thanksgiving Day]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County, in partnership with Word is Bond Poetry Slam, the Allied Dunns-Marsh Neighborhood Association, and Mothers in the Neighborhood, will provide food and fun to more than 200 families on Thanksgiving Day.nbsp; The event will take place from 11...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison area Urban Ministry (MUM) 40th birthday party announced]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; On May 11, 1973 Madison Urban Ministry was officially incorporated as a non-profit social justice agency in WI. We are planning a celebration and visioning party for May 18th, 2013 at the Madison Concourse Hotel and would like to invite you and your congregation to be part of the cel...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW study:  quot;It costs too much to be healthyquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash;nbsp; The high cost of health care is deterring some parents from taking their children to the doctor or buying prescription medication, regardless of how much money they make or whether they have health insurance, according to a study published today in the journal Pediatrics....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Connecting Common Struggles:  Destructive Mining in El Salvador and Wisconsin]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The public is invited to attend an informative discussion of mining issues both here and in El Salvador.nbsp; Longtime Wisconsin and Midwest mining activist and organizer UW-La Crosse Professor Al Gedicks will be joined by El Salvador organizers Brother Domingo Solis, Father Lorenzo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Alternate-side parking begins]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[How to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Comfort the hurting, pull the trapped out of the wreckage, administer first aid until help arrives. But if yoursquo;re 150 miles away, donrsquo;t jump in your pickup with a load of used clothing. Odds are yoursquo;ll just be in the way mdash; and could even be mistaken as a looter!
The Sa...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black Women#039;s Expo and Job Fair:  Saturday, November 10]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trailblazer Henry Brown]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Black Americans need to know and respect our heritage. Know the contributions of your ancestors, and you will learn who you are. One of Americarsquo;s greatest strengths today is ldquo;diversity.rdquo; An African American who blazed the trail toward diversity, innovation, and marketing creativi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Girls Inc. gets $25,000 grant from MCF]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Girls Inc. at YWCA Madison received a $25,000 grant from the Madison Community Foundation to support program expansion.
nbsp;Girls Inc.reg; at the YWCA Madison is an after-school enrichment program designed specifically for girls ages 9-18. The program inspires girls to be strong,...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. Pentagon nixed 1998 U.S. nuclear scientistsrsquo; probe of Iranian program]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) mdash;In 1998, the Defense Department vetoed a delegation of prominent U.S. nuclear specialists to go to Iran to investigate its nuclear program at the invitation of the government of newly-elected Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, according to the nuclear scientist who was o...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Climate change: Hurricane Sandy gives a taste of more extreme weather to come]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;UXBRIDGE, Canada (IPS/GIN) mdash; Killing nearly 200 people in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean and crippling much of New York City and surrounding areas earlier this week, Hurricane Sandy was the kind of extreme weather event scientists have long predicted will occur with global...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Veterans and military families offer students lessons for life]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Veterans Day is an annual opportunity for our youngest to learn about the many Americans who are serving or have served in our nationrsquo;s armed forces. And, November is Military Family month, a time to recognize and appreciate the sacrifices and commitment of the families that stand behind our...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black unemployment still needs to be addressed]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
The problem with having a deadline at the end of the week, is that you miss the opportunity to weigh in on things, such as an election, that happens on a Tuesday.nbsp; It is almost torture when you consider the possibilities face us on November 7 and beyond.nbsp; I am hoping that President...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pay it forward after beating the odds]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
ldquo;Something that Irsquo;ve learned from my mentor is always pay things forward, not necessarily with money, but with actions and deeds. Yoursquo;re not alone. Yoursquo;re not the only one out there in a bad situation. Beat the odds and yoursquo;ll succeed.rdquo;
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The winner is....Gov. Chris Christie]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
When the dust settles on this yearrsquo;s presidential election, the real winner will prove to be Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Christie is finishing his first term as governor and will be seeking reelection in 2013.nbsp; He has built a reputation as a rare no-nonsense, straight-ta...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of November 7, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[November 7, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Water Bearer Awards]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[November 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black Girls Rock!:  A celebration of sisters who are getting it done!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;

Black girls rock! 
And a local foursome of women want to celebrate that to the fullest.nbsp; Four leading ladies mdash; Keetra Burnette, Lisa Peyton-Caire, Sabrina quot;Heymiss Progressquot; Madison, and Vanika Mock mdash; have organized anbsp; Black Girls Rock Watch Party and Awa...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Voter intimidation efforts still in play]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Although President Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney have duked it out in three televised debates and are running opposing ads in the waning days of the election, a nastier fight to intimidate Black voters is taking place away from the limelight.
ldquo;It ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Interview with Mike Peled:  Prominent Israeli general#039;s son now fights for peace]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

ldquo;Many people have told me that my book has given them hope. They believe in the notion that the Jewish state can be removed out of the equation, then we can have democracy for equal rights for everybody,rdquo; says Miko Peled, peace activist and author of the new book, ldquo;The General'...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Anti-black attitudes increased over past 4 years]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[



WASHINGTON (NNPA) ndash; Slightly more than half of all Americans mdash; 51 percent mdash; express anti-Black attitudes, an increase of 3 percent over the past four years, making it more difficult for President Barack Obama to win next Tuesdayrsquo;s popular vote, according to a poll con...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Six to be honored at biannual Water Bearer awards dinner]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The biannual Water Bearer Awards dinner will be held Nov. 1 at the Catholic Multicultural Center and will honor six people who have made great contributions to the Madison community. The 2012 Water Bearer Fall Honorees are: Dr. Earlise Ward, Frances Huntley-Cooper, Janet Pariano, Nancy Rodriguez, ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ed Lee wrapping up 17 years at Urban League]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[




MADISON mdash; Seventeen-year Urban League of Greater Madison veteran Edward Lee announced he will be leaving the organization. His last day in his current position will be October 30. However, Lee will continue to work as a consultant to the League on several projects for the next few mo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[My Republican Part has abandoned me]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
During the past year, as my columns have been syndicated to more outlets throughout the world, I have been asked by many leaders in the Republican Party why I am so critical of our party.nbsp; The short answer is that I am very concerned about the direction my party is taking.nbsp; It has increa...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black turnout expected to remain high in coming election]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[When Americans go to the polls on Nov. 6, support for President Obama will remain virtually unchanged among Black voters, some experts predict.
ldquo;I think Black support for Obama would be the same,rdquo; according to David Bositis, senior analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Union Cab and community leaders to offer free rides to the polls]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; Union Cab will provide free rides to and from the polls on Election Day, November 6th. It is the first presidential election since beginning the practice of free rides to the polls in 2011. This year, Community Car, Community Pharmacy, and Isthmus Engineering have joined Union Cab ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Board of Education Finalizes 2012-13 budget]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash;The Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education finalized the 2012-13 budget at its meeting tonight. The final budget provides property tax relief and additional initiatives to improve achievement for all students. 
ldquo;Irsquo;m pleased that we will be able to provi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Colin Powell endorses President Obama again for 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;ST LOUIS mdash;nbsp; Former Secretary of State Colin Powell broke with the Republican party during the 2008 election, to endorse then-candidate Barack Obama for president, calling Obama a ldquo;transformational figure.rdquo;
Less than two weeks before the presidential election, Powell p...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pakistan: Violence arising from Madrassas]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
PESHAWAR, Pakistannbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; The increasing number of religious schools is being cited as the main reason behind violent protests in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan.
ldquo;We have arrested 105 persons in connection with the riots (over the...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A salute to General Colin Powell]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
There is abundant evidence that this will be a close contest between President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.nbsp; Of course, the election is not really about race, religion or about a random celebrity or publicity quotient.nbsp; This election is actually about the futur...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The end of Republicans#039; quot;Whites Onlyquot; strategy]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[This will probably be the last presidential election in which Republicans can afford to ignore issues of paramount importance to Blacks and Latinos and expect to have a remote chance of winning the White House. Obama v. Romney is the political equivalent of Brown v. Board of Education. A separate an...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Use your power to vote!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[VOTE!!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of October 31, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[10/31/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 31, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Catholic Multicultural Center shaping south side]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ Serving the south side Madison community since 1946, the Catholic Multicultural Center has been an important part of Madison for decades. The Catholic Multicultural Center (CMC) provides an empowering social ministry to meet the needs of the whole person, works to foster multicultural unity, and wo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New school report cards another tool for achievement gap]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Itrsquo;s not just the students who are getting report cards during the 2012-13 school year.
On Monday, Oct. 22, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) issued a School Report Card for every public school in Wisconsin. The new school year has brought new measures on how the MMSD and...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Funding shortage causes prison overcrowding]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
WASHINGTON (NNPA)nbsp; mdash; The Department of Justice will spend $6.6 billion this year to stack drug dealers, addicts, shooters, and illegal immigrants like Lego blocks in prisons that are overcrowded, understaffed and barely safe, according to a recent report from the Government Accoun...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage divides black ministers]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;


WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;The heated debate over same-sex marriage has created a Red Sea-like divide among Black ministers that has serious implications for President Obamarsquo;s re-election bid.
As some black pastors express fervent support for same-sex marriage others are sticking by...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Aren#039;t we through with self-victimization yet?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;As I grow older mdash; and hopefully wiser mdash;I realize that I have fewer and fewer people in my life to blame things on. I am left to face the haunting reality that I have spent way too much time accusing other people of spoiling my success rather than celebrating and assuring my own suc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dating violence and school bullying]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

What starts off as teasing and name-calling in middle school can lead to dating violence later in middle school and in high school.nbsp; Adults as well as younger people are frequently unaware of this trend. 
Likewise, many are not tuned into just how regularly teen dating violence occur...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2012 WWOCN Annual Scholarship Fund-raiser]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Wisconsin Women of Color Network, Inc. will host its annual scholarship fund-raising event on Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Double Tree Hotel, 525 West Johnson Street, Madison, Wisconsin.nbsp; Once a year WWOCN appeals to its members, family and friends to raise money for the Wisconsi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Get It Right Night:  South Madison Promise Zone reviews survey results with community]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash;The South Madison Promise Zone (SMPZ) will host Get it Right Night at Lincoln Elementary School Wednesday, Oct. 24, 6-8:30 p.m.nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; 
Get it Right Night is a community input session to review results of the community and service provider survey of South Madis...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[City seeks nominations for Jeff Erlanger Award]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;The City of Madison is seeking nominations for the 2012 Jeffrey Clay Erlanger Civility in Public Discourse Award. This award was created in 2007 to honor the memory of the late Jeff Erlanger, who was committed to public service and who exemplified the highest standards of constructive...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Girls Inc. She Votes initiative promotes leadership and civic awareness in girls and young women]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[VOTE EARLY]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Existing on a $30-a-week budget:: Cheh, others take on hunger solutions challenge]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp; It was Day Two of the DC Hunger Solutions [DCHS] Food Stamp Challenge, an attempt by participants to eat on $30 a week. Council member Mary Cheh [D-Ward 3] thought the challenge would be cinch because she doesn't drink coffee or juices, and doesn't eat meat, which is pricey.
nbsp;nbsp;n...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Investigation and clean-up efforts focused on reducing exposures to PCE]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;nbsp; Dane County is one of many areas around Wisconsin facing an on-going environmental challenge related to the historic use of PCE. nbsp;nbsp; nbsp;
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE), also known as perchloroethylene or PERC, is a volatile chemical solvent used in dry cleaning, metal c...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Independent study slams N.O. judicial system]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
NEW ORLEANS mdash; A sobering independent study commissioned by local officials that was released this month pans the New Orleans justice system as a disparate array of political fiefdoms that are charged with working together but often fail to do so in a manner that produces trackable results; i...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Statue of Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer unveiled]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
HOUSTON mdash; She is remembered across the world as the woman who was ldquo;sick and tired of being sick and tired.rdquo;
On October 5, hundreds came from across the United States to remember Fannie Lou Hamer, a tireless civil rights advocate during her lifetime, at the unveiling of a statue ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Argentina: Fighting the worst child obesity rate in the region]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
BUENOS AIRES (IPS/GIN) mdash;Pediatricians and nutritionists stress that there is no single factor explaining why Argentina is the country in Latin America with the highest rate of obese and overweight children.
ldquo;In Argentina, between 2.5 and 3.0 percent of preschoolers were obese in the 1...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[What you talking #039;bout Willard?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Halfway through the second presidential debate, I remembered the show where Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges played Arnold and Willis Jackson.nbsp; Little Arnold was always asking, ldquo;What you talking rsquo;bout Willis?rdquo;nbsp; My question, exactly, only this time directed toward Republica...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The minority business hustle]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;There appears to be no reason in logic why 99 percent of the businesses in the country are forced to squabble over 20 percent of the Federal purchase dollar, when a select 1 percent continue to capture their 80 percent market share largely undisturbed.rdquo;nbsp; United States Commission ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 10/24/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[October 24, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Centro Hispano#039;s 23rd annual banquet]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2012 YWCA Racial Justice Summit:  quot;Race, Citizenship, and American Politicsquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Melissa Harris-Perry, founding director of the Project on Gender, Race, and Politics, and professor of political science at Tulane University, has done extensive academic research inspired by a desire to investigate the challenges facing contemporary black Americans and to better understand the ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[PanAfrica Radio Show on WORT 89.9 FM:  Exploring the hidden jewel that is African music]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

ldquo;Music is a river that connects us all as humans. Each and all of us responds to music and it connects us in a way like nothing else. Itrsquo;s a great medium for unity.rdquo;
Those are the words of Alhaji N'jai, who along with Linda Vakunta, hosts the PanAfrica Radio Show every Saturda...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The canary in the coal mine]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier at the UW Diversity Forum

What happens when one works hard and plays by the rules, yet does not succeed?
Thatrsquo;s the question posed by Lani Guinier, the first Jewish-African American woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, who has been a thou...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Supreme Court considers limiting affirmative action]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; With one supporter of affirmative action retired and another declining to participate because of a conflict of interest, the concept of affirmative action is barely hanging on by a thread in the United States Supreme Court as justices prepare to rule in a case that in...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Edgewood welcomes Keegan-Michael Key and Cynthia Blaise]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISONnbsp; mdash; Edgewood College is pleased to welcome two accomplished theatre professionals to campus for two days of workshops and performance. The public is invited to attend along with students. 
Cynthia Blaise: Best Vocal Practices for Stage and Screen will be presented Thursday, Oct. 1...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Call for ATHENA Award nominations]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; The Business Forum (TBF) is pleased to announce that it is accepting nominations for the 16th annual ATHENA Awardreg; Program. The program honors both women and men for excellence in their profession or life's work, for devoting time and effort in their communities to improve the ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW tobacco-research pioneer receives one of highest national honors in medicine]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dr. Michael Fiore, founder of the UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine (IOM), one of the nationrsquo;s most prestigious scientific organizations. 
The election of Fiore, profe...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black and Latino Voting Blocs Flex Political Muscle]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Blacks and Latinos are solidly in the corner of President Barack Obama in the upcoming elections.
In 2008, 96 percent of Blacks and 67 percent of Latinos voted for Obama. Hersquo;s going to need that support again on Nov. 6 to beat back the challenge of Mitt Romney, in a race thatrsquo;s too clos...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Environment: Bicycles defend their place in Mexico Cityrsquo;s concrete jungle]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MEXICO CITYnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Juan Longueiro, 56, uses the bicycles of the Ecobici system three times a day, to commute to and from work and to exercise along the Paseo de la Reforma, a central Mexico City avenue.
ldquo;I think itrsquo;s a good service,rdquo; he told Tierrameacute;rica. ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[University of Texas#039; history of racism]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The affirmative action program at the University of Texas now under review by the United States Supreme Court should not be looked at in isolation. As Justice Sandra Day Orsquo;Connor wrote in Grutter V. Bollinger, an affirmative action case involving the University of Michigan, ldquo;context ma...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Health care is a civil right]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Our Constitution offers us ldquo;life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,rdquo; but we canrsquo;t pursue anything if we are unhealthy.nbsp; Yet, health disparities in the United States are a fact of life.nbsp; African Americans have shorter lives than Whites for three reasons.nbsp; One ha...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Steps to counter voter suppression]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Hopefully by now you have heard a thing or two about efforts on the part of the Republicans to suppress the votes of minorities, youth, the elderly, union members and many veterans.nbsp; The plot is fairly simple:nbsp; make it especially difficult to vote by setting up all sort of systems ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ignored and taken for granted]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
What will it finally take for Black people to accept the fact that we have no real political clout?nbsp; A little influence, yes, but no power.nbsp; If our voting bloc were as strong as we like to think, the Republicans would not ignore us and the Democrats would not take us for granted.nbsp; I...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Let#039;s Give a Hand (or Two) to Preventing Illness]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pepsi Cola#039;s Volunteer of the Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 10/17/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[La Movida presents:  Hispanic Heritage Month Luncheon]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 17, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A refreshing approach to crime and communities]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

ldquo;Every single year, the murder toll for black males ages 24 and under is almost exactly the same as the body count for the World Trade Center attacks,rdquo; said David Kennedy, director of the Center for Crime Policy and Control at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW Odyssey Project celebrates 10 years of transforming lives]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Over 100 graduates, current students, supporters, and staff celebrated the University of Wisconsin Odyssey Projectrsquo;s 10th anniversary Oct. 4. The Chazen Museum provided the setting, UW Catering provided the food, and students and former students provided entertainment that kept the evening l...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Omega School celebrates 40 years]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

ldquo;This is a community that often gets things right,rdquo; said Steve Goldberg, CUNA Mutual Foundation executive director. ldquo;The Omega School is a great example of how this community is getting things right in terms of delivering value to young people [and] helping them to get what the...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Unemployment reaches lowest point under Obama]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; After receiving poor marks for his performance in his nationally televised debate with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, President Obama received a much-needed boost from the Bureau of Labor Statisticsrsquo; report showing that unemployment fell to 7.8 percent...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflective poem on the inconvenience of practical faith]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
I wrote this piece to remind my people of faith that faith isnrsquo;t merely a matter of our own eternal comfort. True faith should equally concern itself with the discomfort of its adherents as it pertains to the service and care of others. Letrsquo;s be careful to not confuse convenience with ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Free fair provides wealth of information and fun]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Herersquo;s the scenario: You visit your mother at her home and discover shersquo;s fallen, needs hospitalization and rehab. What will happen when she returns home? What does she need? Who will take care of her?
Find out at the 3rd Annual Family Caregiver Resource Fair will be held on Saturday,...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The UW-Madison First Wave Scholarship application is now open]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISONnbsp; mdash;nbsp; Application is now open for the UW-Madison First Wave Scholarship. The recipients will receive a four-year, full-tuition scholarship to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 
Once enrolled, First Wave students can major in whatever they choose. Recipients will retain the ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County CEO named Midwest Region Executive of the Year]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; Michael Johnson was named the Midwest Region Executive of the Year by the Boys amp; Girls Clubs of Americas Professional Association at their annual conference held in Indianapolis, Indiana. There are 572 clubs with more than 760,000 members in the Midwest Region, encompassing...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Breast cancer takes heavier toll on black women]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; When Kimberly Higginbotham was 23 years old, she received some devastating news.
It was January. Higginbotham was in her last year of graduate school for physical therapy at Howard University, but she wasnrsquo;t feeling the same excitement as her peers. Instead, ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Judge halts voter ID law]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
After several days of testimony and strong direction from the State Supreme Court, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson reversed himself and approved an injunction of the statersquo;s voter ID law.
It will not be in effect for the November General Election, though it may after January.
Last ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[LUCES annual banquet highlights Latino youth]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[AIDS Walk Wisconsin Honorary Chair Ryan Braun, 2,255 walkers faise $361,392]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp; MILWAUKEE mdash; The organizers of AIDS Walk Wisconsin 2012 are proud to announce 2,255 people from across Wisconsin gathered at the Summer Fest grounds today to raise $361,392 for HIV prevention, care and treatment services.nbsp; AIDS Walk Wisconsin 2012 raised 23 percent more than last ye...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Police near mutiny in Detroit]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[DETROIT mdash; The Bing Administration and Detroit Police top brass seem not to know or are ignoring the rumblings in the ranks. Detroit Police Officers Association President Joseph Duncan said officers arenrsquo;t happy.
ldquo;Would you be happy if your boss took 10 percent of your pay and told...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Europersquo;s support crucial for ongoing Arab spring]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELSnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; The Arab Spring is far from over. The protracted conflict in Syria continues to swallow lives while the international community, hamstrung by geopolitics, looks on; riots across the Muslim world following the release of a low-budget American movie that is disrespectf...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Conservatives conspire to do a job on latest jobs report]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The birther issue ndash; the preposterous idea that President Obama was not born in the United States ndash; was finally put to rest, but that has not prevented conservative conspiracy buffs from seeing a plot behind the falling unemployment numbers.
Conservatives, led by Republican presidentia...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[10/10/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of October 10, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[NAACP Madison Branch:  Freedom Fund Banquet]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 10, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A lifetime of working towards peace]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible mdash; and achieve it, generation after generation.rdquo;
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; mdash; Pearl S Buck

...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Four honored as UW-Madison#039;s 2012 Outstanding Women of Color]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Four women deeply rooted in the community through social justice work, service, research, and community building were honored with University ofnbsp;nbsp; Wisconsin-Madisonrsquo;s Outstanding Women of Color Awards Sept. 24 at the Alumni Lounge of the Pyle Center.
Leslie Bow, a professor of...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The different kind of digital divide]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
When the digital divide was first introduced as a concept in the 1990s, it referred to a gap between those who had access to computers and the Internet and those who did not. There were concerns that minorities and low-income Americans were being left behind in cyberspace, while wealthier an...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Edgewood College launches Ethnic Studies Major]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISONnbsp; mdash; With the start of a new month, Edgewood College announces its new Ethnic Studies major, the first discipline-specific undergraduate major in the School of Integrative Studies.
ldquo;The School of Integrative Studies is proud to house the Ethnic Studies major,rdquo; says Inte...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month Luncheon October 10]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

MADISONnbsp; mdash; In observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month and in remembrance of the important contributions that Latinos have bestowed upon our communities throughout the history of this nation, WLMV - La Movida 1480AM, Mid-West Family Broadcasting, in proud association with Centro...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[County Executive unveils Birth to Four-Year Old Kindergarten Program to address achievement gap]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Newly Created 'Leopold Early Childhood Zone' partners county, United Way to help kids and families succeed


MADISONnbsp; mdash; The county will partner with United Way of Dane County to launch a new pilot birth to four-year-old kindergarten program to help more children and families succeed in...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Odyssey Project celebrates 10 years of transforming lives through education]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; On Thursday, Oct. 4, the Madison community is invited to celebrate the lsquo;transformationrsquo; of more than 250 lives of economically-challenged adults through the power of studying the humanitiesnbsp; and arts in a free University of Wisconsin-Madison class offered by The Odys...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2012 NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner October 5]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Urban League Featured Employer Job Seminar Series]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[A new model for employment creation

MADISONnbsp; mdash; The Urban League of Greater Madison (ULGM) is on to something big.
nbsp;The Featured Employer Job Seminar series, launched in August, has been quickly embraced by the regional business community. Hosted at ULGM, each event is focused on ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Mayorrsquo;s Conference 2012: Great  Neighborhoods, Great Places]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp; MADISON mdash; Madison residents, business leaders, and governmental officials will talk about ways in whichnbsp; neighborhoods can use placemaking to their advantage.nbsp; The Mayorrsquo;s Conference 2012: Greatnbsp; Neighborhoods, Great Places Saturday, Oct. 13, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Rights: U.N. report chastises U.S. for status of native population]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON(IPS/GIN) mdash; A top United Nations official has presented the first ever international investigation into the situation of indigenous peoples in the United States, urging the adoption of new policies and mechanisms to ldquo;address persistent deep-seeded problems related to historical...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Caribbean: Islands brace for challenges of climate change]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[BASSETERRE, St. Kittsnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash;Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas remembers how quiet mdash; even uneventful mdash; this tiny twin-island federation was for the first four decades of his life.
But over the past 10 years, St. Kitts and Nevis, as well as the rest of the Caribbean, have...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Polls don#039;t decide elections]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
In late September, the ldquo;nonpartisanrdquo; Web site Real Clear Politics reported that President Obama leads Republican nominee Mitt Romney is several battleground states.nbsp; According to the polls, President Obama leads by 5.2 percent in Ohio, 4.5 percent in Virginia, 4.2 percent in...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Maxine Waters case:  A political train wreck]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The headlines proclaim that Rep. Maxine Waters, the outspoken Democrat from California, has been cleared of charges that she violated House ethics by advocating on behalf of a Black bank in which her husband held a substantial investment. The real story, however, is that Waters case serves as Exhi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW Diversity Forum 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Goodman Community Center seeks to provide Thanksgiving meals to 1,000 families in need]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISONnbsp; mdash; Over the past decade, the Thanksgiving Basket Drive hosted by the Goodman Community Center has become a welcomed fall tradition in the Schenk-Atwood neighborhood for families in need.
Each year the drive provides all the groceries to prepare a traditional Thanksgiving meal, in...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[In memory of Rachel Delaine Gordon (1928-2012)]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[10/3/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of October 3, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[October 3, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[October 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama in Milwaukee]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ldquo;You guys sound like yoursquo;re fired up already,rdquo; President Barack Obama told the crowd at the Summerfest Grounds at the Henry Maier Festival Park on Sept. 22. nbsp;ldquo;It is good to be back in Milwaukee.rdquo;The enthusiastic crowd was chanting ldquo;four more yearsrdquo; but ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Centro Hispano Leadership Awards Announced:  Mireles, Salazar to be honored Oct. 19]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[   The Centro Hispano Leadership Awards have been announced and they will be presented at the 23rd annual Centro Hispano banquet titled ldquo;The Power of a Dream: Education and Opportunityrdquo; Friday, Oct. 19, at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center.nbsp;  Oscar Mireles an educat...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fourth Annual Black Women#039;s Wellness Day]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Itrsquo;s true that African Americans have the largest differences in health risks when compared to other racial or ethnic groups. But it doesnrsquo;t have to be that way, says Lisa Peyton-Caire, and when it comes to health and well-being, she wants to equip African American women with the inf...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New Madison Public Libraries director makes the rounds]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Greg Mickells (pronounced Michaels), the new director of the Madison Public Library, will be visiting each library branch as he embarks on his duties. Mickells moved here from Lincoln, Neb., and has been on the job about a week. On Sept. 12, Mickells visited the Goodman South Madison Branch Librar...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks pay more to get out of jail on bail]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;Blacks 18 to 29 years-old pay more to get out of jail than Whites and Latinos in a system that costs taxpayers more than $9 billion annually, a recent study shows.
In ldquo;Bail Fail: Why the U.S. should end the practice of using money for bail,rdquo; the Justice Policy I...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[International Day of Peace 2012 set for Sept. 21]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ROCKFORD, Ill. mdash; International Day of Peace, set for Thursday, Sept. 21, represents a movement to unite the global community in a day of nonviolence.
World leaders Kofi Anan, the Dalai Lama and others acknowledged that one day of peace would permit children and families to leave war-torn area...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Jesus Nebot visiting Madison College#039;s South campus]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


MADISON -- Critically acclaimed film director Jesuacute;s Nebot will be visiting Madison Collegersquo;s South campus on Friday, Sept. 21, to talk about his film ldquo;No Turning Backrdquo;mdash; which focuses on the hot-button issues of immigration, race relations, and class struggles.
N...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Get Ready to Rhumba this weekend]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Rainbow Project will host its eighth annual Rhumba 4 Rainbow Benefit on Friday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m.-midnight at the Varsity Hall of Union South, located on the UW-Madison campus at 1308 Dayton Street.nbsp; 
The public is invited to attend and celebrate the work of the Rainbow Proj...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of UW-Wisconsin-Madison to host Global House Party]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISONnbsp; mdash;The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Wisconsin-Madison, with the support of the UW-Madison Peace Corps Recruiting office, are hosting a Global House Party at the University Club, 803 State St., Monday, Sept. 24, 4-7 p.m.
The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV) of Madison i...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Romney calls Obama supporters #039;freeloaders#039;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; In a private discussion with millionaire donors, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney stereotyped those who voted for President Obama in 2008 as ldquo;victimsrdquo; who want and expect a free ride from the federal government.
The surreptitiously recorded v...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Two young Capybara siblings join the Henry Vilas Zoo family]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Henry Vilas Zoo family continues to grow this summer with the new addition of two young capybaras from Canada, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Sept. 18
nbsp;ldquo;Our free Henry Vilas Zoo continues to grow, and continues to offer something for everyone year-round,r...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Voter ID rally spurs emotions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA mdash;During an angry and vocal rally held outside of the Municipal Services Building last week, members of the NAACP, several union representatives, clergy, state and city legislators took turns commenting on the Pennsylvania Voter ID law.
The rally, which was hosted by the NAACP, to...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Libya: U.S. envoy dies in Benghazi Consulate attack]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;DOHA(IPS/GIN)nbsp; mdash; The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, has died from smoke inhalation in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, the countryrsquo;s interior ministry and security sources have said.
An armed mob attacked and set fire to ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Lord, bless this mess]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
ldquo;Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah hellip; saying, ldquo;Arise, go to Ninevehhellip; 
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish.rdquo;nbsp; 
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; mdash;Jonah 1:...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The double whammy of poverty and unemployment]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; Last week, we learned that African American unemployment rates stayed level last month, with an absurdly high official unemployment rate of 14.1 percent.nbsp; Unemployment rates for African American men fell, while those for African American women rose.nbsp; These ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Greedy King children at it again]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
In his ldquo;I Have a Dream Speechrdquo; delivered at the 1963 March on Washington, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said he dreamed of the day his children would be judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character. If Dr. King had known how Martin III, Dexter and Bernice woul...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The significance of struggle]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
One of the main themes in the political conventions was centered on how hard it was for the speakersrsquo; families, their parents and grandparents, and how they struggled to make it.nbsp; Virtually every top speaker reflected on the hard times they went through and how their relatives struggled...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[#039;Ryanomics#039; assault poor and hungry children]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Hungry child,
I didnrsquo;t make this world for you.
You didnrsquo;t buy any stock in my railroad.
You didnrsquo;t invest in my corporation.
Where are your shares in standard oil?
I made the world for the rich
And the will-be-rich
And the have-always-been-rich.
Not for you,
Hungry chil...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Mingling, Mentoring, and Mama#039;s Treats 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[September 19,  2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 9/19/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[September 19, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Literacy leads to success]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

On Saturday, Sept. 8, Literacy Network hosted an open house celebration to honor 10 volunteers for their thousands of hours of dedicated service to adult learners. These volunteers have been dedicated to teaching reading, writing, and speaking skills to adults and families so they can achieve fi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[South Madison Community Night:  Building community and camaraderie]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Residents of the South Madison Promise Zone enjoyed an evening of family fun during the first South Madison Community Night on Aug. 24 at the Urban League of Greater Madison. The new, free event will be held the third Friday of every month. 
The goal of the South Madison Community Night is to p...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[8th annual Mexican and Centro America Independence Festival]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;The Mexican and Centro America Festival, Madisonrsquo;s oldest and largest Latino festival, will take place on Saturday, Sept. 15, noon-9 p.m., at Warner Park.
ldquo;This is the 8th annual festival and wersquo;re expecting it to be as big as ever,rdquo; says Alex Gillis, one of the main o...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Are you ready for some football?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on living fully]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


I officiated another funeral recently. It was an untimely death of a cherished Madison native son.
I realize that my profession, like that of funeral directors, fire fighters, police officers, nurses, doctors, etc., deals with death on a regular basis. Itrsquo;s part of the job. As a coping ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fourth Annual Celebrate South Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison Branch of the NAACP welcomes Ed Gordon]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;The Ida B Wells Freedom Fund Banquet, which will be held at the Marriott Hotel West on Oct. 5, will feature the honorary keynote speaker Ed Gordon, who is the former host of BET Tonight and an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster. 
The Madison Branch of the NAACP always has superb guest ke...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2012 Wisconsin Women of Color Network Inc.  Annual Employment Conference]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Wisconsin Women of Color Network, Inc. (WWOCN) will hold its annual employment conference on Saturday, Sept. 29, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the Madison College, Truax Campus, 1701 Wright Street.nbsp; 
The theme of the conference is:nbsp; ldquo;Lifersquo;s Maze: Achieving Success A...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW-Madison#039;s First Wave announces parnership with legendary MC Lyte]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

MADISON mdash;Hip Hop Sisters Foundation (HHSF) CEO/Founder MC Lyte, Advisory Board Members Russell Simmons and Salt, University of Wisconsin-Madison Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Damon A. Williams, and HHSF President Lynn Richardson are pleased to announce a new $100,000 hip-hop...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The 11th annual Racial Justice Summit]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The 11th annual Racial Justice Summit will take place at the Monona Terrace on Oct. 15 and 16. 
Each year, the YWCA Madison hosts a racial justice summit that brings together community stakeholders to work on eliminating barriers that foster racism in our community. The Summit focus...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Board Seeks Community Input on Superintendent Search]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; The Madison Metropolitan School Districtrsquo;s Board of Education is now seeking community input for its search for the next superintendent. The district will hold community input sessions on September 19 and 20 at 7 p.m. 
ldquo;Selecting a new superintendent is one of our most...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Hundreds Celebrate First Anniversary of King Memorial]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Five thousand miles couldnrsquo;t stop Vernelle Dickerson from paying her respects to one of the most influential men in her life. A South Carolina native, Dickerson remembers the harsh conditions she and countless African Americans faced daily growing up in the...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[AIDS Spreading Fast Across East Europe]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
KIEV mdash; Despite pledges from governments across Eastern Europe and Central Asia to fight HIV/AIDS mdash; one of the eight Millennium Development Goals mdash;the region has the worldrsquo;s fastest-growing HIV epidemic.
Punitive drug policies, discrimination and problems with access to med...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fifteen memorable quotes from the Democratic Convention]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp; 
#15 ndash; Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (Mo.):
ldquo;Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.nbsp; This must change, because just as bees cannot sting and make honey at the same time, members of Congr...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Living (Well) to 100]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pepsi Cola:  Volunteer of the Month]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 9/12/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Building Community in Kenya]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[September 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[YWCA Racial Justice Workshops:   Getting to the heart of race relations]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;
The Racial Justice Workshop series at the YWCA Madison is more about just being kind and pleasant around people who may be a little different from you, itrsquo;s about serious conversations and about actively promoting racial justice. Those interactions can get pretty personal and intense...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ready.  Set.  Go:  Back to School!!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[(Photos by Jeanne Erickson)
Thanks to a whole slew of community organizations and the Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County, the first day of school will be a brighter day for a bunch of Madison-area students and families.
For the first time, the annual Ready, Set, Go: Back to School celebration to...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Community comes together at Centro]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[United Way's 20th Annual Days of Caring



People all across Dane County felt the impact of thousands of volunteers mobilizing as one as the United Way held its 20th annual Days of Caring last week. Centro Hispano of Dane County was one of the many hosts of this annual event and was filled with ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Southern-style justice in 2012?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Many believe Chavis Carter was murdered. So while authorities may be content with their findings, Black America is not.
The coronersrsquo; report is back and they have agreed with the incredible assertion of the Jonesboro Police Dept., that 21-year-old Chavis Carter shot himself to death whi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Back-to-School Tips]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[For many Madison-area students, next Tuesday is the first day of school. The following health and safety tips are from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Making the First Day Easier
Remind your child that there are probably a lot of students who are uneasy about the first day of school. Tea...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Come get a Taste of Madison this weekend!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The First Annual.....Today#039;s Women Empowerment Summit]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Straight black men ignored in AIDS initiatives]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; No one can creditably deny the burden of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Black community. Although Blacks represent only 12 percent or the U.S. population, they accounted for 44 percent of all new HIV infections.nbsp; Black women accounted for 57 percent of all new HIV infe...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama#039;s race still bearing on media coverage]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;


Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago, everyone in America knew that Barack Obama was Black.
Have his blackness and extensive coverage of that fact boosted...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama#039;s race still bearing on media coverage]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Long before a little-known Illinois politician ran for president, the mainstream media focused on his race. When he flourished as a presidential candidate four years ago, everyone in America knew that Barack Obama was Black.
Have his blackness and extensive coverage of that fact boosted his...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Activists meet over Million Man March anniversary]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Organizers of the Nation of Islamrsquo;s 17th anniversary of the Million Man March met Charlotte community leaders to discuss issues important to African Americans.


Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan will keynote the 17th anniversary of the Million Man March Oct. 14 in Charlotte.
Charlo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The incredible power of seeing the best in others]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
ldquo;hellip;the joy of the Lord is your strength.rdquo;nbsp; Nehemiah 8:10
I believe in people and their capacity for greatness. Throughout history, people of excellence have accomplished incredible things. This quality of excellence is exemplified whenever we use all of our abilities ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[County Executive Parisi announces tentative contract with Dane County Deputy Sheriffrsquo;s Association]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; A tentative agreement with the Dane County Deputy Sheriffrsquo;s Association will help achieve more budget savings for 2013, and continues the countyrsquo;s commitment to working with its workers, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Aug. 26. 
Pending approval by the Dane ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S.: Immigration policies wreak havoc on U.S. communities]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Deportation is a devastating experience for a family, breaking it apart and leading to emotional and mental stress for its members. But a new report from the Centre for American Progress shows that such duress extends beyond families and into the larger community...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Getting a grip on food security in DR Congo]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[KINSHASA(IPS/GIN) mdash; The Association for Integrated Rural Development is one of a number of rural organizations on the periphery of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are strengthening the cityrsquo;s food security while demonstrating how to maximize sustainable u...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama#039;s mixed record on appointing judges]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Many speakers at this weekrsquo;s Republican convention in Tampa have focused on the economy and unemployment as they sought to contrast the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan GOP ticket with the record of President Barack Obama. But there is another battle underway that is receiving less attention but is at ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Without a gun, how many lives would have been saved?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
When news broke of the murders at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin on August 5, people of all faiths and backgrounds and the first responders who came to the scene to help were horrified by the ambush on men and women as they prepared for worship services. Leaders across the country quickly denounced ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of August 29, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[14th Annual Africa Fest]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;Take Back the Neighborhoodquot;  Penn Park hosts National Night Out]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[




The South Side of Madison came together in Penn Park on Tuesday, Aug. 7 to celebrate and quot;Take Back the Neighborhoodquot; for National Night Out.nbsp; About 300 adults and children marched through the neighborhood against drugs, guns, gangs and related violence, and then shared a co...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Building trust and communication]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Interview with MMSD Interim Superintendent Dr. Jane Belmore


She might have been named interim superintendent for just the 2012-2013 school year, but Dr. Jane Belmore is eager to get at the business at hand with an energy and an effort that will lay down the foundation for a successful transitio...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Voter ID support strongest in those with negative attitudes toward African Americans]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Support for voter identification laws is strongest among Americans who harbor negative sentiments toward African Americans is a key revelation in a new National Agenda Opinion Poll by the University of Delawarersquo;s Center for Political Communication.
Voter ID laws require individuals to show ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Equal opportunities]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[City of Madison Department of Civil Rights' Marcus Miles


When the City of Madison Department of Civil Rights recently announced the hiring of Marcus Miles as the new Equal Opportunities Division Manager, they knew they were getting a man with plenty of experience and a long record that showed r...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The First Annual Today#039;s Women Empowerment Summit]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on rites of passage for black boys]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[I recently spent six days in Jackson, Mississippi with 20 young African American boys from Madison and Chicago for a rites of passage process that my team designed. I teamed up with Marlon Anderson and Walter Henderson from Fountain of Life Church in Madison and Pastor Lance Davis and Lamont Scott o...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[13th annual nonprofit Madison Money Conference]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Asset Builders of America, Inc., with many sponsors and community partners, will present the 12th annual Madison Money Conference on Saturday, Aug. 25 at Madison College/MATC (Truax Campus).nbsp; Registration and breakfast begins at 8 a.m., with the program lasting from 8:30 a.m. un...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Juan Jose Lopez selected UMOS board chair]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

MADISON mdash;nbsp; Juan Jose Lopez was recently elected as Chairman of the UMOS Board of Directors.nbsp;


Lopez is Manager of the Bureau of Program Management and Special Populations for the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. He has also served as Assistant to the Attorney Ge...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[MMSD#039;s Diversity Department launches Parent University]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;Madison Metropolitan School Districtrsquo;s Diversity Department is excited to announce the launching of Parent University this fall. 
Parent University is a new online, school-based and community-based learning experience specifically designed to help parents and teachers increase ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fourth Black Latino Unity Picnic amp; BLU Pledge Kick Off]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[100% Family Friendly, 100% Free, 100% Community

MADISON mdash; Immigrant Workers Union (IWU) is excited to announce the Fourth Annual Black Latino Unity Picnic on Sunday, Aug. 26.nbsp; The picnic will be held at Penn Park from 1-5 p.m. The event is part of an overall grassroots effort to promot...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Womenrsquo;s Equality Day Celebration to take place Aug. 30]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; The Wisconsin Womenrsquo;s Network (WWN) has announced its annual celebration of Womenrsquo;s Equality Day will take place on Thursday, Aug. 30, 4:30-6:30 p.m. at Samba Brazilian Grill, 240 West Gilman Street, Madison, with special guest speaker, WMTV (NBC 15) News Anchor Carleen...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Republican ticket shrugs off foreign policy experience]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; With less than three months to go before the U.S. presidential election, Barack Obamarsquo;s Republican challenger for the presidency, Mitt Romney, finally announced his vice-presidential running mate, a young member of Congress named Paul Ryan.
At the announce...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Libya: Gaddafi loyalists up in arms]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp; TRIPOLInbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; The security situation in Libya remains tense as violence by way of car bombings, political assassinations of high-ranking government and military officials, attacks on foreign diplomatic staff and NGOs, and young men sorting out minor disputes with AK-47s cont...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Romeny budget cuts #039;substantially#039; deeper than Ryan#039;s]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been carefully trying to put some distance between him and running mate Paul Ryanrsquo;s radical budget proposal but he has a major problem mdash; his plan would make even deeper cuts than the Ryan plan.
A careful analysis of Romneyrs...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fathers pack backpacks at ULGM]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Back to School, Back to Germs]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 8/22/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[100 Black Men of Madison#039;s  Backpacks for Success]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 22, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[August 14, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[PEOPLE students celebrate completing pre-college program]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;

The future of the state of Wisconsin was on display at the UW-Madison PEOPLE Programrsquo;s 12th annual Recognition Banquet at the Madison Marriott West Aug. 3. The future looks very promising.
The annual recognition banquet was held for the 141 high school seniors in one of the most suc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New EOC president fighting for the marginalized in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Brian Benford is nothing if not a grassroots community activist. Whatrsquo;s most important to him is opening doors to people who have been marginalized in our community. As an African-American single father of four (and one more child on the way) whorsquo;s faced his own share of personal str...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Rwanda native, genocide survivor, speaks at Goodman South Madison Library]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Francois Musonera, father of two little girls, attended the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He now teaches Spanish at Hartford Union High School and lives in Beaver Dam, Wis. Sounds like an average Wisconsinite, right? Well, no: Hersquo;s been in the U.S. for 15 years, but 15 years ago Muson...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New day dawning for violence victims:  Needed hope and safety on horizon]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

About 100 people gathered in the heat of the day August 1 to learn about plans for a new, up-to-date shelter for those hurt by family violence in Dane County. The event took place at 2102 Fordem Avenue in Madison, the site of the new shelter and future home of Domestic Abuse Intervention Service...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Madison Times Decision #039;12]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

As much as voters complain about the constant negative campaigning in politics, there is no shortage of evidence that attack ads work. The state of Wisconsin, in particular, is still weary after being hit over the head with over $60 million spent on advertising in its recall race mdash; most of...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Enrollment days approach for 2012-13 School Year]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[FAMILIES CAN SAVE TIME BY ENROLLING ONLINE STARTING TODAY!!!

MADISONnbsp; mdash; As the 2012-13 school year quickly approaches, itrsquo;s almost time for enrollment in the Madison Metropolitan School District. This year, families can save time at their school enrollment day by enrolling online...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[IT#039;S TIME TO ENROLL!!!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[National Council of Elders formed]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
GREENSBORO, N.C. (NNPA) mdash; They come from all walks of the civil and human rights struggle, each a distinguished leader with a long record of advocacy, molded in courage, and sacrifice. Ministers, activists, poets, former elected officials, retired military, disciples of Dr. Martin Luth...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Qamp;A with Joseph Roy]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Joseph Roy is a technological entrepreneur. He is the owner of RoyTek Website Designs, which has been in existence since 1998. Roy is also the web administrator for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Division of Business Management. In his spare time, he is active in the community and tea...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[NCLR visits Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2012 Backpacks for Success Week]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISONnbsp; mdash; To recognize the gracious donations of our civic partners, Backpacks for Success Week will commence with the 4th Annual Backpacks for Success Appreciation Banquet on Tuesday,nbsp; Aug. 14, at the UW-Madison Kohl Center (Gate A). Tables for this event are available for purchase...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[DOJ Unveils Sweeping NOPD Reforms]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON mdash; Seven years after a series of high-profile murder cases in the wake of 2005rsquo;s Hurricane Katrina involving the New Orleans Police Department rocked the nation, the U.S. Department of Justice took steps toward reforming the troubled agency. A federally mandated plan to rid the...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Human right to water and sanitation remains a political mirage]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;UNITED NATIONSnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; When the 193-member General Assembly, the U.N.rsquo;s highest policy-making body, declared water and sanitation a basic human right back in July 2010, the adoption of that divisive resolution was hailed by many as a ldquo;historicrdquo; achievement.
B...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Gabrielle Douglas#039; hair-raising experience]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
If you donrsquo;t follow Olympic gymnastics, you may not have heard about Gabrielle Douglas before this year.nbsp; But the amazing grace of this 16- year old African American propelled her to Olympic gold last week, and she is the first African American to win an individual medal in gymnas...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The State of America#039;s Children 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once said ldquo;We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we canrsquo;t have both.rdquo; When we look at the state of our union and the state of Americarsquo;s children in 2012, his words ring...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[August 8, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of August 8, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane Dances!  The quot;unluckyquot; 13th season begins!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 08, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[29th Annual National Night Out:  South side pride on display]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;


The south side will be the place to be on Tuesday, Aug. 7. Specifically, Penn Park, as Madison joins other communities across the country to celebrate the 29th annual National Night Out.nbsp; 
Club Today Not Tomorrow (Club TNT) is one of the lead organizers this year of the celebrati...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[#039;Asian Am#039; finding its groove]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[  The Asian American Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on the scholarship and experiences of Americans, Pacific Islanders, and immigrants to the United States from Asian heritage groups. The program sheds light on Asian American exper...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black America in a state of emergency]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


The 2012 International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., can be a bewildering experience for a first-timer, even for veteran AIDS activists, like Marsha Jones of the Aafiya Center in Dallas. There are dozens of sessions, hundreds of participating organizations, as well as exhibitors, protes...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New director leads old Madison tradition]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Itrsquo;s that time already. One of Madisonrsquo;s favorite summertime events is Dane Dances!, the multicultural summer concert series that attracts more than 3,000 attendees on the Monona Terrace Rooftop every Friday evening in the month of August.
Now, in its 13th season, Dane Dances! is on...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Simpson Street Annual Family Reunion]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[12th Annual Streetball and Community Picnic]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Habitat for Humanity of Dane County hires CEO]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Following a three-month search process, Valerie Johnson (formerly Valerie Breunig) has been named chief executive officer of Habitat for Humanity of Dane County. 
For seven years, Johnson served as executive director of the Worldwide Foundation for the World Council of Credit Unions...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Millions of ex-offenders given a voting #039;death sentence#039;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) ndash; Nearly 6 million former prisoners ndash;1 million of them Black ndash; will not be able to vote in the November presidential election because of state laws that continue to punish them even after they have completed their sentences, according to a recent report by the S...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks, Latinos strongest supporters of financial reform]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Blacks and Latinos support financial reform more than any other group, according to a new poll released by Lake Research Partners. When consumers were asked if Wall Street caused the financial crisis, eight out of 10 African-Americans agreed. Sixty-five percent of Latinos agreed, compared to an ov...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[For Danny Glover, the AIDS struggle is personal]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Working in an industry where he has seen many of his contemporaries lose their battle with AIDS, actor Danny Glover is on a serious mission of spreading awareness about the disease in hopes of challenging minds and saving lives.
ldquo;I had a friend who died from the co...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison on top of Kiplinger.com list]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISONnbsp; mdash; ldquo;On a typical Saturday, you might browse the Dane County Farmersrsquo; Market, head down to Campnbsp; Randall Stadium to tailgate and watch Badgers football, or boat or fish in lakes Kegonsa, Mendota, Monona, and Waubesa,rdquo; noted a Kiplinger story that named Madi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Rights: Moral duty to halt atrocities runs into realpolitik]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) - Against the backdrop of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, a panel of United States government officials and experts called for stronger methods to prevent modern-day genocides and mass atrocities, particularly in the case of Syria.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Burkina Faso: In the pursuit of education, a school for shepherds rises]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
OUAGADOUGOUnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Salou Bandeacute; is proud to stand at the front of the only classroom in the village of Beacute;nnogo, 90 kilometers north of the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou, sharing his knowledge with his students. He is part of an initiative to improve education for ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Valuing some lives over others]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
The national support for the victims of the recent Colorado shootings is great. However, if we believe in the equivalency of life, what about the lives of young men in Chicago, where there have been more deaths than in Afghanistan so far this year. While the hospitals in Aurora say they will...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black economic dyysfunction]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Amazingly, Black folks in this country still donrsquo;t get it.nbsp; After all we have been through and after everything we have accomplished, prior to and after integration, our relative collective economic position in America has changed very little.nbsp; In some cases we have regressed in te...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[No substitute for a quality education]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
On July 24th, Dr. Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, gave a video keynote speech to 3,200 community and youth leaders attending the Childrenrsquo;s Defense Fundrsquo;s National Conference in Cincinnatimdash;not on the details of national fiscal polic...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[8/1/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of August 1, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[August 1, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[August 02, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Embracing new pedagogy]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

More and more across the nation, universities are recognizing that the youth of a spoken word and hip-hop generation really have a lot to offer. And the University of Wisconsin-Madison has prided itself on being on the cutting edge of realizing that trend.
With that in mind, ldquo;Hip Hop in t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Creating food that feeds the soul]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

ldquo;I love the complimentshellip; no doubt. But I really love it when food makes a difference in peoplersquo;s lives. I really think that when yoursquo;re cooking what you add makes a difference,rdquo; says Chef Rodney Ladson. ldquo;I believe that food feeds the soul. Itrsquo;s comforti...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Bill Tompkins names to take black press helm]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Publishing veteran Bill Tompkins will get a crack at moving Black newspapers forward as hersquo;s been named president and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the umbrella organization for Americarsquo;s Black newspapers.
Tompkins has 19 years of experience with the Washin...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[D.C.:  Progress in an AIDS hotspot]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; As Washington, D.C. hosts the 2012 International AIDS Conference, residents in the nationrsquo;s capital continue to battle epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS.
According to a report released by the Districtrsquo;s Department of Health, the prevalence rate ndash; or the propo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Evidence-based home visitation program to increase school success for highest risk chidren]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Expansion of United Way's Parent-Child Home Program will serve up to 119 families in 2012-2012


MADISON mdash; On July 24, the Board of Directors at United Way of Dane County approved the expansion of its Parent-Child Home Program. In an investment partnership with CUNA Mutual Foundation, an ad...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks and home ownership]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Are you middle-class?nbsp; One way to know this for sure is through homeownership.
Unfortunately, for many Blacks, the American Dream of homeownership is quickly fading. Among racial demographic groups, European Americans have the highest homeownership rate, while African Americans have the lowe...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[ColumbianFest 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Metro Transit receives awarded $3.8 million state of good repair grant]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; Metro Transit is pleased to announce that it will receive $3.8 million dollars as part of a $787 million State of Good Repair federal grant announced today by U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood. This State of Good Repair grant is intended to put Americans to work modernizing and ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S.: Penalties for the young and homeless set to rise]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
BERKELEY, California (IPS/GIN) mdash; Amber, 24, whorsquo;s been living on the streets half her life, was sitting on a sunny sidewalk in downtown Berkeley last week, cuddling her three-month-old puppy and talking to a friend. But if voters approve a measure the city council placed on the Novembe...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[To aid Afghanistan, offer less aid]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
KABULnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; It is customary to focus on the amount of money the international community offers Afghanistan: the higher the sum and the longer the commitment, the lower the risk of further destabilisation. And so the 16 billion dollars pledged by the donors for the next four years...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama is #039;fiddling#039; his way to failure]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The American Dream is starting to fade away and that is very scary.nbsp; The saddest thing about this is the recent behavior or attitude of President Barack Obama.nbsp; He has abandoned leading us and has gone on full campaign mode with more than four months to go before the national election.n...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The End of AIDS]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
There was a refrain that was heard in almost every speech this week at the International AIDS Conference in Washington: We are on the verge of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic. That wasnrsquo;t a statement that could be made 30 years ago when the pandemic was first identified.nbsp; It wasnrsquo;t a...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Zimmerman tries to speak for God]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed Trayvon Martin, told Fox News personality Sean Hannity that the events that occurred on February 26, 2012 were ldquo;Godrsquo;s will.rdquo;nbsp; What a cynical manipulation of our Creator, to suggest that the massacre of an African American teenager...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Increase voter enthusiasm now]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Lest we forget, the price for our right to vote was life-sacrificed, blood-soaked, jail-filled, and tear-wrenched.nbsp; As we approach the national elections on November 6, I am concerned that there is an urgent necessity to increase Black American voter registration, mobilization and overall ent...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pushing children out of school]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
In 1642 the Massachusetts General Court passed one of the very first laws about education in what would become the United States. It ruled that because it was apparent ldquo;the good education of children is of singular behoove and benefit to any Common-wealth,rdquo; all parents and guardians we...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[7/25/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 7/25/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Devin Harris#039; 34 Ways to Assist:  NBA star stresses the fundamentals]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Itrsquo;s July 14 in a hot Madison La Follette High School gym and former Wisconsin Badger star and current Atlanta Hawk All-Star guard Devin Harris is having a lot of fun in a live full-court basketball game with youngsters of all ages.nbsp; The kids at his camp, which focuses on basketball fun...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[NAACP Convention highlights voting challenges]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

HOUSTON (NNPA) mdash; The NAACPrsquo;s recently concluded national convention in Houston saw its share of highlights. They included dramatic and powerful addresses by political and civil rights leaders and a host of workshops aimed at empowering members for active participation in the November...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Millennials face tough job market]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Today, 50 million Americans are 18-29 years-old. Often referred to as Generation Next or the ldquo;millennials,rdquo; this generation is the most diverse in American history: nbsp;61 percent White, 19 percent Hispanic and 14 percent Black. By comparison Generation X (born between 1970-197...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madagascar in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on the life of my five-year-old cousin, JB Conn]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

My cousin Sarah called me from the Stoughton Police Department on the afternoon of July 3rd to tell me that her son, JB, was missing. The family rushed out to Stoughton to be with Sarah and to aid in the search for him. Special attention was given to this particular search because JB was autisti...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Romney and the NAACP:  A missed opportunity]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
As anyone who has followed me knows, I have been extremely critical of President Obamarsquo;s non-engagement with the Black community. Obama has deliberately ignored the plight of the Black community while giving preferential treatment to the homosexual and Hispanic communities.
But I canrsquo;...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[ULGM College Readiness Academies helping students]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; The Urban League of Greater Madison (ULGM) is proud to share initial results from its College Readiness Academies. Between March and June of this year, 73 high school students were provided with 32 hours of free ACT instruction. Post-tests revealed that 72 percent of participat...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[MMSD Board of Education appoints Dr. Jane Belmore Interim Superintendent]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Board members for the Madison Metropolitan School District have announced that they voted unanimously to appoint Dr. Jane Belmore interim superintendent. Dr. Belmore has left her post as Dean of the School of Education at Edgewood College to lead MMSD. 
ldquo;Jane is the right pers...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW Hospital and Clinics named top hospital in Wisconsin by US News amp; World Report]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; In its first-ever ranking of hospitals by state, US News amp; World Report magazine has named University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics the top hospital in Wisconsin mdash; and among the nationrsquo;s top 50 hospitals in seven medical specialties.
The rankings, based on analys...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Latinos could shift outcome of 2012 elections, experts say]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; As the Latino population in the United States rises, the demographic shift will affect future as well as current voting habits, and therefore election outcomes, in the United States, according to several experts.
In the highly competitive upcoming presidential ele...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Brazil launches campaign to decriminalize drug use]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[RIO DE JANEIROnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; A host of academic, legal, health, political and social figures are joining together to back a campaign to decriminalize drug use in Brazil, as tens of thousands of consumers uninvolved in the drug trade are currently jailed.
The ldquo;Drug Law: Itrsquo;s Ti...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Coming out of the closet on mental health]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill) has been away from Congress on medical leave for so long that his colleagues have been clamoring to know whatrsquo;s wrong, and NBCrsquo;s Andrea Mitchell reported that the congressman was receiving treatment for addiction.nbsp; The truth, according the Rep....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The politics of power and the precious right to vote]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;The first fact that we need to understand is that America has a longer history of disenfranchisement than it does of enfranchisement. What do I mean by that? At the time of the American Revolution when America was finding its footing, more than two-thirds of the people who resided in the co...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama needs another record Black turnout to win]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
WASHINGTON (NNPA) ndash; If Black voter turnout reverts to the level it was before Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in 2008, the nationrsquo;s first Black president will have a difficult time winning a second term in the White House, concludes a National Urban League...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Boys amp; Girls Club Volunteer Day]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A Bumper Crop of Summer Injuries]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 7/18/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of July 18, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Advocating for the safety, permanency, and well-being of kids]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;


Dane County CASA is a Madison-based 501(c)(3) organization that provides community advocates to abused and neglected kids in Dane County. Itrsquo;s an agency that works to give the most vulnerable children in our community a voice.
ldquo;I have a pretty strong philosophical belief tha...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[ROCI Pentecostal Ministries:  A vision becomes a reality]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Pastor Lilieth Richards was born and raised in a very religious environment in Kingston, Jamaica. She moved to the United States and continued her true calling to minister and serve God's people by starting Restoration Outreach Center International [ROCI] Pentecostal Ministry. 
ROCI recently ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[NAACP mobilizes Black voters]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[





HOUSTON (NNPA) mdash; The NAACP has always had a concentrated effort to get people of color registered to vote, but due to recent suppression measures, NAACP officials say thatrsquo;s only half the battle. Now, itrsquo;s just as important to make sure voters are at the polls on Electi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black soldiers are the true patriots]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[





WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; It was about time. More than 60 years after 20,000 African-American men donned United States Marine Corps uniforms and trained at the legendary Montford Point Marine Corps facility in Jacksonville, N.C.,nbsp; the United States government celebrated them for the...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Eighth annual Rhumba 4 Rainbow Benefit announced]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Rainbow Project will host its eighth annual Rhumba 4 Rainbow Benefit on Friday, Sept. 21, 7 p.m.-midnight at the Varsity Hall of Union South, located on the UW-Madison campus at 1308 Dayton Street.nbsp; 
The public is invited to attend and celebrate the work of the Rainbow Proj...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A celebration of life XVII:  Geology on Earth and Mars!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Tenth annual Bike for Boys amp; Girls Club bigger and better]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[La Fete de Marquette This weekend!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Southern states get failing grades for school funding fairness]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Many states are failing to provide public schools with the resources they need to serve all students equitably, and Florida and North Carolina doing a particularly poor job in addressing educational disparities caused by concentrated poverty.
Thatrsquo;s among the findings of a new report from t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fishing and recreation access to Children expanded]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash; The county is partnering with UW-Madison, DNR, and three area community organizations to expand access to fishing and recreation for local low income children, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced.
Working with Madison-based Fishing Clubs, the county will reserve fishing sit...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Climate change: Youth-friendly apps visualize carbon footprint]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash;Following what many regard as a disappointment at the recent Rio+20 Earth Summit, the World Bank and several groups have begun implementing new initiatives to ldquo;personalizerdquo; climate change, in hopes of revitalizing the issue among the younger gene...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Guyana: Caribbean weighs allegiance to Taiwan vs. China]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[GEORGETOWN, Guyananbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; As Caribbean leaders meet in St. Lucia this week, they are focusing on a series of routine issues affecting the region, including problems with the smooth operation of the single trading market.
But those from the smaller eastern group of islands are also ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trailblazing State Senator Yvonne B. Miller broke gender and color barriers in Virginia]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;I make every woman who comes to my office sit in my chair and get her picture taken, and they do not leave my office without the commitment that they will either run for office themselves or support a woman who is running for office.rdquo;nbsp; Virginia State Senator, Yvonne B. Miller
On...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Health care momentum shifts toward Obama]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act two years ago, polls have consistently shown that a slight plurality of Americans have opposed the measure. But public opinion now seems to be shifting in President Obamarsquo;s favor, with a slim plurality supporting the landmark health care m...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Making results match rhetoric]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;Talk is cheap!rdquo;nbsp; ldquo;Talkinrsquo; loud and sayinrsquo; nothinrsquo;!rdquo;nbsp; Black folks do a lot of talking, rappin,rsquo; espousing, pontificating, and philosophizinrsquo;.nbsp; No matter the subject, we seem to know all about it and are more than willing to get e...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blame Republicans for high unemployment]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
The unemployment rate has hovered above 8 percent for several months, most recently holding ground at 8.2 percent, the same as last month.nbsp; Meanwhile, the African American unemployment rate went up, officially to 14.4 percent, and we all know that means the real rate is even higher, pro...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ending the cradle to prison pipeline]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
A Black boy born in 2001 has a one in three chance of going to prison in his lifetime and a Latino boy a one in six chance of the same fate. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world: 7.1 million adult residents mdash; one in 33 mdash; are under some form of correctional supervisi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Employment 7/11/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of July 11, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[July 4, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[July 05, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[South Madison Center for Culture and Community:  Building upon a foundation of faith]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
nbsp;
Community members came out in force to witness a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the new South Madison Center for Culture amp; Community (SMCCC) Friday, June 22 on Madisonrsquo;s south side.
The Center is a joint venture of The Nehemiah Corporation and Fountain of Life Church...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Omega School#039;s 40th Anniversary:  Journey begins for 2012 Graduates]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


The Omega School Inc. Summer 2012 GED/HSED Commencement Ceremony was held Thursday, June 21, in the auditorium of Madison Memorial High School.
Omega School is an alternative, adult basic education and diploma completion program that prepares students who missed out on a high school diploma a...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama continues to disrespect the Black Press]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ATLANTA (NNPA) mdash; A panel discussion at the National Newspaper Publishers Association annual convention titled, ldquo;Get Out the Voterdquo; should have been renamed, ldquo;Get Out the Angerrdquo; as Black newspaper owners expressed their strong displeasure over the Obama administrationr...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Hamilton Middle School students win national history challenge]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Today#039;s Women Empowerment Summit 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Largest Mission of Mercy ever in U.S. this weekend]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; More than 1,500 volunteers from 222 Wisconsin communities will be in Madison Friday-Saturday, June 29-30 to provide $1.75 million in free dental care to some 3,000 children and adults during the fourth Wisconsin Dental Association and WDA Foundation Mission of Mercy.
This will be th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Prison abuse cover ups:  Advocates push for access to inmates and ability to scrutinize institutions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Americarsquo;s criminal justice system today amounts to tougher laws, longer sentences, harsher conditions and little oversight. Advocates say there is a combination of almost unlimited power and too little transparency.
Problems range from depriving inmates of religious literature and denying rel...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Andrew Young and Danny Bakewell honored for #039;Legacy of Excellence#039;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Ambassador Andrew Young (center) accepts Legacy Award from NNPA Chairman Cloves Campbell, Jr. (left) and Xernona Clayton (right). 


ATLANTA (NNPA) mdash; Former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young and Danny J. Bakewell, Sr., the National Newspaper Publishers Association chairman emer...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[King Center CEO inspirits mother#039;s legacy]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Flashback to April 4, 1968, and you may still sense the deep dejection and overwhelming grief that permeated the African-American community on a day that will never be forgotten mdash; the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. That tragic evening was also the same day that Edythe ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Most main highways open for Fourth of July holiday travel]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
MADISON mdash;nbsp; Although work on most major highway construction projects in Wisconsin will be on hold during the Fourth of July holiday, motorists might still encounter some lane restrictions and could experience delays during peak travel periods, according to the Wisconsin Department of Tr...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S.: Obama wins cautious praise for ending deportation of minors]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
nbsp;WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash;President Barack Obamarsquo;s administration recently announcednbsp; that the United States would no longer deport certain young immigrants.
While the move, made by executive order, was hailed by immigration advocates as a small but positive first step, m...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Cilantro spices up coexistence with drought in Brazil]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
JEREMOABO, Brazil (IPS/GIN) mdash; Many grow lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, beets, and other vegetables. But cilantro is ever-present in the gardens that are helping rural families weather the lengthy drought that is once again wracking Brazilrsquo;s impoverished Northeast.
Cilantro is the favorit...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pass the Voter Empowerment Act]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
ldquo;With a pivotal presidential election just six months away, we must do all we can to ensure free and fair elections and that everyone can vote.rdquo; Voter Empowerment Act fact sheet
Thanks to rising citizen outrage and efforts like the National Urban Leaguersquo;s ldquo;Occupy the Vote...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney gets a free pass]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
One of the most remarkable things about Mitt Romneyrsquo;s run for the White House is that the presumptive Republican nominee is allowed to attack President Obama on everything from saving the automobile industry to immigration. Yet, the news media rarely point out that Romney is against many thi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Walk it out 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[June 30, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of June 30, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nuestra Fiesta   2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[St. Mary#039;s School at work:  Eight graduate exciting new program]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


School. Work. Private life. Do these mix? They mixed beautifully at St. Maryrsquo;s Hospital June 14 as eight very happy people graduated from St. Maryrsquo;s School at Work (SAW) program, with their families, friends, and staff members celebrating right along with them. 
For the past six m...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Family and Friends demand justice at memorial for Derrick Gaines]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
On June 12, family members held a memorial for Derrick Gaines, a 15-year-old who was shot and killed by an officer with the South San Francisco Police Department on the evening of June 5. Police claim that Gaines, who was walking with a friend near an Arco gas station, was engaging in ldquo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[President-elect building on remarkable Rotary history]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


As Wesley Sparkman, the president-elect for the Rotary Club of Madison, looks to take over the reins, he canrsquo;t help but look at the past members and key figures who have helped build the prestigious organization through the years.
He thinks about Nelson Cummings, the first Black member ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Grown Folks Music, LLC :  Madison Gets to Steppin#039;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

ldquo;What Irsquo;m doing is giving mature adults something to do,rdquo; says Clinton ldquo;MC C Scottrdquo; Hampton, founder and owner of Grown Folks Music, LLC. ldquo;The way things have been going in Madison, there has been a lot of drama associated with parties. Irsquo;m just trying t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nuestra Fiesta 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on love and twenty-four years of marriage]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Twenty-four years ago this week my life changed. I married a woman whose college roommate, a mutual friend, introduced us at the University of Wisconsin. Today, as 48 year olds, we have now officially been married for half of our lives!

I have not always seen marriages where men and women respect...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[South Madison Center For Culture amp; Community to start construction]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;With the south side of Madison being one of the most diverse communities in the state of Wisconsin, itrsquo;s time to bring its various cultures together and give everyone a central gathering place for culture, community, and education.
The new South Madison Center for Culture amp;...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[MMSD Board of Education passes 2012-13 budget]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Madison Metropolitan Board of Education president James Howard and Vice President Marjorie Passman released the following joint statement tonight regarding passage of the 2012-13 budget.
ldquo;We are pleased to work together with our staff and community to pass the 2012-13 budget t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ryan Braun Named Honorary Chair of AIDS Walk Wisconsin 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE mdash;The AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin has named Milwaukee Brewers four-time All-Star, Silver Slugger Award Winner and reigning National League Most Valuable Player Ryan Braun as honorary chair for AIDS Walk Wisconsin 2012.
ldquo;I am honored to be a part of AIDS Walk Wisconsin 201...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[World slightly more peaceful, despite U.S. militarization]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) -mdash; Countering a two-year trend, the world overall became slightly more peaceful over the past year, according to an annual report released here on Tuesday.
The United States, however, moved down seven places to 88 out of 158, a ldquo;fairly low rank (that) largely ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Rodney King symbolized police brutality]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Rodney King would be the first to tell you that he was no Martin Luther King, Jr. or Malcolm X. His lifelong bout with alcohol and drugs mdash; battles that he always seemed to lose mdash; and frequent run-ins with police did not qualify him for icon status. Yet, thatrsquo;s what he achieved in...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Watching what your kids watch on TV]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) ndash; When 6-year-old Simaya Hammonds ditched Dora the Explorer for tween-fare found on the Disney Channel and Nickelodeon, her mom, Tahneezia Hammonds wasnrsquo;t surprised.
The precocious first grader enjoys ldquo;Shake It Uprdquo; on the Disney Channel and ldquo;Victori...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Let#039;s unify around the unity movement]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Do you believe Black people should work together in support of one another?nbsp; Do you believe that Black people should better utilize more of our $900 billion-plus annual aggregate income to start and grow businesses?nbsp; Do you believe Black people should share our information and experience...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Eating Healthy Makes Cents]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Legal Notice]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 6/20/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[23rd Annual Juneteenth Festival:  Reclaiming our collective voices]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 20, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW PEOPLE program going strong]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[    It's hard to believe, but the University of Wisconsin-Madison Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellencenbsp; (PEOPLE) program is already 13 years old. This is a busy time for Jacqueline DeWalt, PEOPLE program executive director, as school is ending and the summer progra...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Bringing women together in the name of leadership and networking]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

J.P. Olson is putting together the first annual Women Empowerment Summitt

The first annual Today's Women Empowerment Summit will be a chance for women to take a break and unwind, to socialize, to network, and to enjoy a weekend packed with activities and excitement.
nbsp;ldquo;We want to e...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Juneteenth Celebration 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[As crimes falls, police hiring rises]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; For the past three decades, crime in the United States has been declining. The murder rate, for example, has fallen by almost half, from 9.8 per 100,000 in 1991 to 5.0 in 2009. Robberies were down 10 percent in 2010 from the previous year. Yet, there is a steady dru...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Diverse group of youngsters learn about politics]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Centro Hispano Nuestra Fiesta]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Protect your kids from the dual #039;summer slide#039;:  learning loss, weight gain]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Working parents are already lining up child care plans for the summer. While theyrsquo;re at it, educators say all parents of school-age children should also plan for preventing the dreaded summer slide.
ldquo;The lsquo;summer slidersquo; is the information and skills children forget during sum...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Teen pregnancies, dangers on the rise]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
After more than a decade in decline, the United States teen pregnancy has been rising in recent years.
According to momlogic.com, the estimated public cost for teen pregnancy in the United States is between $6 and $9 billion a year. Eighty percent of teen moms are on some form of public assistanc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane County partners with Madison Metropolitan Sewage District, dozens of communities on groundbreaking effort to improve water quality]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dane County is teaming with Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) and 30 other cities, villages, and towns throughout the Yahara Watershed to implement a ground-breaking effort, to reduce amounts of algae-forming phosphorus that enter area streams, rivers and lakes, Dane Coun...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[For minorities in the U.S., public schools, risk of dismal future]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[NEW YORKnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; As the United States struggles to level the racial disparities in its education system, the birth rate of minorities has been rising steadily. Experts say this confluence of statistics should compel Americans to seriously address the flaws and failures of the country...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Spain: Fair trade alive and well despite recession]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MALAGA, Spain,nbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; The economic and financial crisis afflicting the countries of the European Union (EU) has scarcely affected sales of fair trade products from Latin America, especially food products, in Spain.
quot;The impact of the crisis on fair trade varies according to th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama needs to run against congress]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
If President Obama wants to win in November he will have to run against the Republican Congress.nbsp; He will actually not need to spend his time on Romney.nbsp; When you have people like former President Jimmy Carter suggesting that Romney is not that bad, you have a message problem and one tha...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Maligning federal employees]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Congress is on fire to balance the federal budget, and they donrsquo;t care who they take as prisoners in the process.nbsp; There are at least two proposals to freeze federal salaries for yet another year (they have been frozen since 2011), and to continue to demonize federal workers as do...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Life expectancy gap between blacks and whites at all-time low]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
ldquo;Understanding the causes of black-white differences in mortality has important consequences for interventions to reduce health inequalities in the United States.rdquo; Sam Harper, PhD; McGill University, Montreal
In recent weeks, wersquo;ve shared with you the news that the birth-r...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Tolerance of poverty]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The latest edition of UNICEF's report on child poverty showed the United States ranks second out of 35 developed countries on the scale of what economists call ldquo;relative child povertyrdquo; with 23.1 percent of its children living in poverty. Only Romania ranked higher. It was another shame...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Florida is again the laughing stock of America]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
When it comes to national elections, no state makes a bigger fool of itself than Florida. The Sunshine state was at the center of an 1876 controversy over the presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel L. Tilden. By throwing out many votes cast by Blacks...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[June 13, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of June 13, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Centro Hispano#039;s First Annual Radio-Thon]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 14, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Promise Zone director improving south side]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Interview with Peng Her

Peng Her is the director of the Urban League's Promise Zone

A few months ago, the Urban League of Greater Madison named Peng Her to be the director of its Promise Zone Initiative and to lead its ambitious plan to challenge the people and institutions of south Madison to...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Rev. Bishop H.H. Brookins]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Itrsquo;s a very long way from Yazoo City, Mississippi to the Halls of Congress, State Houses, City Halls and the White House, but Bishop H.H. Brookins has been there, ldquo;an don dat.rdquo; He has traveled that path and has gone the distance. Along the way, he has touched the lives of other b...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[South Madison Summer Camp Fair]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[When blacks stand their ground]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The right to self-defense is human nature and a fundamental principle of law.
But with a harsh prison sentence handed to a Black mother and the upcoming trial of an elderly Black man mdash; both declared ineligible to claim Floridarsquo;s Stand Your Ground law mdash; the truth remains that in ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on hugging]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;Last Saturday, I co-led a funeral for a very dear friend who lost an ugly battle with cancer. It was a very beautiful and moving memorial service. There were poems, reflections from lifelong friends, scripture readings, favorite hymns, Eucharist, and several memorable photos. I walked away fee...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[With Kent Craig]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Executive Director Kent Craig (far left) and the Centro staff are gearing up for some exciting events this summer

Itrsquo;s an exciting time for Centro Hispano of Dane County. They have an interesting RadioThon mdash; an on-air pledge drive mdash; coming up with La Movida 1480 AM this Friday...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Mann Scholars honored at Discovery Town Center]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Street culture vs. church power]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Rev. Marvin Winans

The Rev. Marvin Winansrsquo; remark, ldquo;I refuse to be afraid of us,rdquo; in the wake of the robbery attack on him by four young Black men at a neighborhood gas station on Linwood and Davison, carries a moral truth.
is a statement deeply rooted in the belief that we...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Johannes Wallman to lead jazz studies at UW-  Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The School of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is pleased to announce the appointment of Johannes Wallmann as director of jazz studies, beginning in the fall of 2012. Selected following a national search, Wallmann brings extensive performing experience in styles as divers...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Conflict: Israel fans a virtual flame against Iran]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[JERUSALEMnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; A new super-weapon has entered the Mideast cyber arena. First detected last week by a Moscow-based security company, lsquo;Worm.Win32.Flamersquo; mdash; just call it lsquo;Flamersquo; mdash; might be quot;the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashedquot...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trayvon#039;s parents want to make America less violent]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

As Chicago dealt with yet another deadly weekend of violence where 10 people were killed and nearly three dozen injured, the parents of slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin were in town to talk about the impact of gun violence on communities. Speaking at the national headquarters for the Rainbow/PU...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Freedom Summer Schools spur student growth]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
When Kyla was in the third grade, she failed the state-required end-of-grade tests at her Charlotte, N.C. elementary school. Her grandmother was worried that summer school wouldnrsquo;t be fun, but then she heard about the Childrenrsquo;s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schoolsreg; program, an...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[June 6, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 6/6/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Summer Camp Fair]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[June 07, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[38th Annual Women of Distinction Luncheon:  YWCA honors six outstanding women]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

The 2012 Women of Distinction honorees: (L-r) Sarah Gillmore, Naomi Carter, Nan Cnare, Frances Bicknell, Fabu Carter, and Karen Christianson 

The 38th annual YWCA Women of Distinction Luncheon was held on May 24 at the Concourse Hotel in downtown Madison. This yearrsquo;s awards ceremony hon...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Mann Scholars Program celebrating 15 years]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[  The Mann Educational Opportunity Fund is a scholarship that honors the late Bernard and Kathlyn Mann, parents of Becky Gobermann (left) and Lori Mann Carey.  In the midst of one thousand recent discussions in Madison about overcoming the racial achievement gap, The Mann Fund has been helping stude...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Third Annual Aaron Perry Run/Walk:  Improving community health]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Aaron Perry is the first African American insulin-dependent diabetic in the world to ever finish an Ironman Triathlon.


ldquo;If you want to live until you're 80, you better be doing something about it at age 40.rdquo;
Thatrsquo;s always been Aaron Perryrsquo;s motto as he prepares to h...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fifty percent of the wrongfully convicted are black]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; On October 24, 1974 an unidentified man robbed and raped a pregnant Wayne State University student in a bathroom on campus. The student later picked 19 year-old Edward George Carter, out of a photo lineup that contained multiple pictures of the Black teen.
None of the phys...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The underemployed also struggle to survive]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; The woman selling you lottery tickets at 7-11 could be an engineer with multiple degrees. The guy bagging your groceries may have earned a six-figure salary in the not-too-distant past. Welcome to underemployment, the new norm in America.
As of April, there are nearly 8 ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Which Side of History Will You Be On?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County tackles high school graduation rates in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Three of 10 kids in the United States fail to graduate each year. Additionally, only 57 percent of African American and Hispanic children graduate high school.nbsp; Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County is working hard to combat these unsettling statistics through implementation of t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S.: Citizens group challenges corporate support for global warming deniers]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ATLANTA, Georgia,nbsp;nbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; A coalition of advocacy groups is denouncing corporate support for the right-wing Heartland Institute after the organization put up a controversial billboard in Chicago that links the belief in global warming with serial killing and mass murder.
On Tu...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pakistan: Threats loom against doctor who helped U.S. find and kill Bin Laden]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;PESHAWARnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash;nbsp; The sentencing of the Pakistani doctor believed to have provided the U.S. with vital DNA evidence that led to the tracing and killing of Osama bin Laden has set off new conflicts within Pakistan. The Taliban are now out to get him beyond what the law can....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Racist #039;talk#039; with white children]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
In the wake of the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., stories appeared in newspapers, on broadcast outletsnbsp; and on the Internet about ldquo;the talk,rdquo; a candid conversation Black parents have at some point with their Black sons about survivingnbsp; in a soc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trips more valuable than Disneyland]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
When you leave the United States, yoursquo;ll often find ldquo;cultural tourism,rdquo; or the opportunity to enjoy a culture and also purchase trinkets or more substantial items in markets around the world.nbsp; In Ghana, we look for kente cloth, statues, and masks.nbsp; In other African coun...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Summer Calendar of Events in Dane County]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of May 30, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Education reformer Paul Vallas speaks in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 30, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane County Executive statement regarding the passing of Laurie Burnstein Mlatawou]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Laurie Mlatawou (left) was co-chair of he Dane County Task Force on Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System with Celia Jackson


Dane County Executive Joe Parisi issued the following joint statement regarding the passing of Laurie Burnstein Mlatawou.nbsp; Mlatawou was a leading...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Working to improve the community]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

The Social Justice Center (below), located at 1202 Williamson Street, Celebrated its 12th birthday recently by honoring Charles and Constance Smalley (above) with the Legacy Award

Hanah Jon Taylor performs


Folks gather at the Social Justice Center's 12th birthday party at the Goodman Com...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Kwame Salter asks Madison to abandon their illusions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Keynote speaker Kwame Salter is a retired senior vice president of human resources at Kraft Global Supply Chain

Rebecca Ryan, of Next Generation Consulting, was one of the featured speakers at the ULGM Diversity Summit May 16,

About 350 people attended the Urban League of Greater Madison's...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on Carpe Diem (Seizing the Day)]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Carpe Diem! Itrsquo;s a popular Latin phrase that literally means ldquo;seize the day!rdquo;
It is interesting to reflect on what you value at various stages of life. As an elementary school kid, I valued recess and candy. As a middle schooler, I valued popularity and Clearasil (this was my gene...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;Queen of Discoquot; Donna Summer dies]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

quot;Disco Queenquot; Donna Summer passed away in Florida May 17 after battling lung cancer

Disco legend Donna Summer died May 17 in Naples, Fla., at age 63 after a battle with cancer, said her publicist Brian Edwards. Her family released a statement saying they ldquo;are at peace celebrat...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2012  African American Student Recognition Celebration]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2012 African American Student Recognition Celebration.]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Community members packed into Madison Collegersquo;s gymnasium on Sunday, May 20, as the Madison Metropolitan Chapter of The Links, Inc. held its Annual African American Student Recognition Celebration.nbsp; 
ldquo;I would like to issue a call of action today to our community,rdquo; said Yvon...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Groups mobilizing to rebuss assault on voters#039; rights]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) ndash; As many as 5 million people could be denied access to right to vote in the November presidential election because of a series of regressive actions, including insisting on photo identification at the polls, reducing time allotted for early voting and eliminating Sunday vo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane Dances! announces the 2012 band schedule for its quot;luckyquot; 13th year]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; Would you believe it? Dane Dances! has been lucky enough to survive and thrive for 13 years! In 2012, we are bringing back some favorite bands, and a couple of new ones to get you moving and grooving' out on the dance floor. All Dane Dances! events run from 5:30-9:30 pm, every ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Colleen Butler wins the Rev. Wright Human Rights Award]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The Equal Opportunities Commission and the Equal Opportunities Division are proud to announce Colleen Butler is the winner of the 2012 Reverend James C. Wright Human Rights Award. This seventeenth annual award will be presented at the June 19 Common Council meeting.
The award honors...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. Water conflicts move up on U.S. security agenda]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) mdash; Earlier this month, the United States intelligence community unveiled a first-ever assessment of global water-security issues. A declassified version of the document, which looks forward through 2040, suggests that quot;during the next 10 years, water problems will cont...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Chile: New report critiques the worldrsquo;s most unequal region]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;SANTIAGOnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; A new report takes a close look at the territorial distribution of poverty and inequality in Latin America, which has long had a reputation of being the most unequal region in the world. The Latin American Report on Poverty and Inequality 2011, presented this w...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A Biblial reason to vote against Mitt Romney]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
After President Obama expressed his personal support for same-sex marriage, there has been a robust discussion among African-Americans about whether his stance will make Black voters less likely to support him in November.
A poll conducted by The Pew Research Center For the People amp; The...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[No holiday for hunger]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Summer is usually imagined as a carefree time for children and families mdash; a lazy, relaxing season filled with cookouts, backyard picnics, and trips to the ice cream truck. We donrsquo;t usually equate ldquo;summer vacationrdquo; and empty stomachs. Did you know child hunger and food insecur...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 24, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 5/23/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 23, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[May 23, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 23, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[2012 African American Student Recognition Celebration]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 23, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Power of the Spoken Word]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
David Hart (left) and Tony Fudge prepare for the Madison Grand Poetry Slam this weekend.
Madisonrsquo;s top slam and performance poets will compete in the Madison Grand Poetry Slam Saturday, May 19 at Gennas Lounge for a chance to represent Madison at the 2012 National Poetry Slam in Charlotte, ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black women make major employment gains]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The jobless rate for Black women has fallen 3 percentage points over the past five months, the largest decline for any demographic over that period.

WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Black women are making the most significant gains in employment but still lag behind Whites, according to the Labor Depa...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Press Conference at Doyle Administrations Building]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
City Council President Shiva Bidar-Sielaff (left) speaks as Superintendent Dan Nerad and Deedra Atkinson of the United Way of Dane County look on.

After months of community and staff input, Superintendent Dan Nerad made revised recommendations on the districtrsquo;s plan to close the ach...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Voter registration and the 2012 election]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Itrsquo;s as dependable as the rise and ebb of the tides.
If a national election is near, then itrsquo;s time to cast doubt on the commitment of blacks and Latinos to turn out to vote. Despite their steady level of participation over the last two decades, and clear ratcheting-up of voting in th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[North/Eastside Senior Coalition#039;s 7th Annual Multicultural Senior Health Fair]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Annual event continues to get bigger, more diverse

The 7th annual Multicultural Senior Health Fair was held at the Warner Park Community Recreation Center on May 11. Local seniors could enjoy community agencies providing informational booths, free health screenings, and educational presentations....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ethnic and minority youth lead new wave of student activism]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
TUSCON, Arizona,nbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; In December 1985, The New York Times reported on what was believed to be the first anti-apartheid conference of U.S. high schools discussing divestment from corporations operating in South Africa.
Sixteen independent schools met at St. James Episcopa...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[African American Student Recognition Program this weekend]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[County Executive selects Ronda Schwetz to serve as new director of Henry Vilas Zoo]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;Dane County Executive Joe Parisi has announced today that he has selected Ronda Schwetz to serve as his new director of the countyrsquo;s Henry Vilas Zoo.nbsp; Schwetz was selected as Deputy Zoo Director in October of 2010, and has been serving as Interim Zoo Director since October ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The National Association of Real Estate Brokers join others in facing housing challenges head-on]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE mdash; The foreclosure, neighborhood blight and natural disaster crises are having a disproportionate impact on minority communities, and minority-owned real estate businesses across the nation. As a result of these concerns, the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREBreg;), t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Iran: The strange case of Saeed Mortazavi]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[TEHRAN (IPS/GIN) mdash; After weeks of wrangling between the Iranian parliament and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over the appointment of a highly controversial former judge to direct the country's Social Security Organization, the parliament has once again failed to impose its will on the presiden...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Obama did not take easy way out on same-sex marriage]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[One point that is absolutely clear is that the President of the United States is no political coward.nbsp; President Barack H. Obama made history by backing historic health care reform across America when everyone thought that successful political battle would negatively hurt his chances for re-ele...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Pardon the Wilmington Ten]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Of the seven years I was editor of Emerge: Black Americarsquo;s Newsmagazine in the 1990s, I am proudest of our national campaign to win the release of Kemba Smith, a 24-year-old former Hampton University student who was sentenced to a mandatory 24 frac12; years in prison for her minor role in a d...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Student loan debt crushing college dreams]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ldquo;Higher education canrsquo;t be a luxury, it is an economic imperative that every family should be able to afford.rdquo; 
nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; mdash;President Barack Obama
nbsp;
As graduation season swings into high gear, a new economic crisis confronts thousands of this year...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Working hard to get back on track]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Since childhood, 21-year-old Ashante Dickens has had a clear goal: quot;I want to be an elementary school teacher. That's my passion.quot; She got good grades in school, and did well enough in high school to be allowed to take a few early enrollment classes at a nearby college in early childhood...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Take Pride in your Stride]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 5/16/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Ninth annual UW Odyssey Project graduates 30]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The deeper conversation on workforce diversity]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ . Maria Campbell, director of diversity for SC Johnson
nbsp;It is hardly a secret that demographics in the workplace in the United States are rapidly shifting. And Wisconsin is not immune to that shift. With that in mind, the deeper conversation on workforce diversity will be happening at the Urb...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Blacks want better TV shows----or do they?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Nearly all African-Americans polled mdash; 97 percent mdash; say they are unhappy with the Black TV programs currently on air. Seventy-five percent say they want more documentaries, 71 percent prefer more history, 68 percent desire to see more independent films, and 59 ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Student loans plus limited job opportunities equal trouble]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; When she graduated from the University of Iowa two years ago with a major in elementary education, Amber Newman envisioned standing in front of a class of bright, energetic youngsters and providing them with the solid educational base that would help them become successful ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[23rd Annual Juneteenth Festival]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Juneteenth 2012nbsp; co-chairs Jessica Strong (left) and Ronnicia Johnson-Walker

A character actor depicts a historical Juneteenth scene

Two young ladies from last year's Juneteenth Celebration at Penn Park

Girls gather at the Juneteenth Heritage Tent

Since 1990, the annual Juneteen...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on getting over yourself]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ldquo;The only disability is a badnbsp;attituderdquo; 
mdash;Scott Hamilton, Olympic Figure Skater
Rocky. Rudy. Wilma Rudolph. Helen Keller. Joni Eareckson Tada. Corrie Ten Boom. Harriet Tubman. Madame C.J. Walker.nbsp; Frederick Douglass. George Washington Carver. These are all individuals w...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A mother#039;s gift----Seven things great mothers speak into their children]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;Many people feel that what we do for mothers on the second Sunday in May is the definitive indication of how we feel about them.nbsp; Most believe that, if we cherish our mothers, we call, send a card, give a hug, buy a gift, or take her to lunch mdash; perhaps do all of the above.nbsp; Wha...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Jazz vocalist Mary Stallings headlining with free concert]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;ldquo;Perhaps the best jazz singer alive today is a woman almost everybody seems to have missed. Her name is Mary Stallings.rdquo; So said the New York Times reviewer upon release of Ms. Stallingsrsquo; CD, ldquo;Live at the Village Vanguard.rdquo;nbsp; Fresh off her magnificent performa...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[100 adults waiting for help learning to read, write, speak]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Imagine not being able to understand your child's teacher. Or your doctor. Or the person interviewing you for a job.
Norma is a single mother of three school-aged children who works three part-time jobs. She hopes to improve her English so that she can better communicate with their ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Second annual Africa Night will feature Drum Power]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The 2nd Annual Africa Night performance featuring Drum Power students will take place at Mills Concert Hall in the UW-Madison Humanities Building on Frdiay, May 18.
Drum Power students are city-wide students ranging from 2nd to 8th grade.nbsp; Students develop musical and life skil...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[International urban movement conference returns to Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Urban dance competitors from around the world will converge on Madison from May 9 to 13 for the ninth annual International Festival of Urban Movement: Breakinrsquo; the Law amp; Breaking Ground, gathering at venues from the Capitol square to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
In true W...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;Dance Your Voicequot; at the Overture]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Free B-cycle trips during Bike to Work Week]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Madison B-cycle, the cityrsquo;s bike sharing program, is excited to announce that it will be offering free B-cycle trips during the Wisconsin Bicycle Federationrsquo;s Bike to Work Week, May 14th through 18th. The promotion is timed during Madisonrsquo;s busiest bicycle commuting...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. food security slipping ever further away]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Continuing near-record high food prices around the world are highlighting international inattention to a looming threat, observers here warned on Friday.
According to speakers at the launch of the World Bank-International Monetary Fund (IMF) Global Monitoring Repo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Vietnam clamps down on bloggers]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[BANGKOKnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; A pioneer of citizensrsquo; journalism in Vietnam is risking 20 years in jail for defending Internet freedom and exposing the draconian censorship laws in this communist party-ruled country.
Nguyen Van Hai, who writes under the pen name lsquo;Dieu Cayrsquo; (Peasa...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Poison in America]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The growth in hate groups and the use of their divisive and negative language in the mainstream political and media arena is cause for national alarm. Already this year several horrendous hate crimes, possible hate crimes, and crimes committed by people with ties to hate groups have received natio...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Fox News brings out the long knives for Obama]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Fox News, the unofficial arm of the Republican Party that claims to be fair and balanced, is conducting an all-out assault on President Obama, doing everything from letting Mitt Romney advisers masquerade as objective commentators to ignoring facts when a high-profile Obama critic or Fox News comm...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Covance Opportunites]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[May 9, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of 5/9/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[El dia de los Ninos and Latino Health Fair]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 09, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[In support of Kathleen Falk]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Our state is at a significant crossroads, one that is twisted and distorted by elected officials who choose to believe and act on their belief that your voice, your opinions, and your concerns about a multitude of critical issues facing Wisconsin today do not matter.
These people are the Republican...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 03, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[JOB POSTINGS 5/1/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[May 01, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Future stars ready to shine]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Women in Focus, Inc. Scholarship Awards Program

The 2012 Women in Focus, Inc. scholarship recipients


Women in Focus, Inc. continued to stress the importance of education as they distributed scholarships to 13 outstanding area students at Edgewood College on Sunday, April 22.
The annual awar...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[JoCasta Zamarripa keynotes day for Latinas]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[   JoCasta Zamarripa, the conference's keynote speaker and the first Latina elected to the Wisconsin state Legislature, is surrounded by co-organizers Beda Martinez (left) and Africa Lozano (right) at La Mujer Latina Conference April 21.   Through politics, environmental discussions, art, music, and...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[North Carolina judge rules racial bias influences death penalty sentencing]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

In an historic decision, a North Carolina judge reduced an inmatersquo;s death sentence to life without the possibility of parole because the prosecutor had deliberately excluded black potential jurors during the jury-selection phase of the inmatersquo;s trial.
Judge Gregory A. Weeks, of Cumb...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The media coverage of Africa:  Impoverished. Corrupt. Helpless]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Thatrsquo;s how Western mainstream media often portray nations of Africa. Rarely do broadcast and print news agencies report uplifting stories, instead favoring sensational tales that frequently depict Africa as a continent in ruins.
Rather than show Africans working to improve their villages, c...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on the power and discipline of delayed gratification]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Our best self is yet to be revealed.
In a time when so much gratification is immediate, itrsquo;s hard for many to believe that good comes to those who wait. Far too many of us treat the discipline of delayed gratification as though it were lifersquo;s greatest tragedy. The sad thing is that dela...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Salvadoran mining struggles are pertinent to Wisconsin]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


Jan Morrill, of the National Roundtable Against Metallic Mining, is on a national tour talking about important mining issues.


The recent mining controversy in northern Wisconsin was far more complex than people would have you believe, says Jan Morrill as she stopped in Madison as part of ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Chican@ amp; Latin@ Studies Program:  Celebrating 35 years on Campus]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

nbsp;rdquo;When the Chican@ amp; Latin@ Studies Program first started on the University of Wisconsin-Madison 35 years ago, there was a proclamation that came from the mayor's office supporting the initiative. The mayor at that time was a young, dynamic leader by the name of Paul Soglin.
Thir...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;Busking for Booksquot; raises $2,537 for Literacy Network]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison chapter of Girls, Inc. receives Civics Club $1,000 Community Service Grant]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Students participating in the Madison chapter of Girls, Inc., along with advisor Amanda Larson, will use funds from a $1,000 Madison Civics Club community service grant to continue providing help, friendship and entertainment to clients of the Salvation Army women's shelter. Back row (left to righ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[U.S. Secretary of Education visits East High School]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited East High School on April 18 to talk with students about college affordability. AVID/TOPs student Sheikh Jammeh introduced the secretary to the crowd of over 250. Secretary Duncan spent most of his hour at East taking questions from jun...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Affordable Care Act: What it means for small businesses]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash;nbsp; ldquo;Right now my employees donrsquo;t have healthcare,rdquo; said William F. Wingo, president of Power Magazine. ldquo;I had healthcare for them, but it just became too expensive,rdquo; said Wingo, who for years provided benefits for employees of the Christian ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[International News]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Syria: U.N. Chief says Syria has broken ceasefire

DOHA (IPS/GIN) mdash; U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon the has called for a U.N. observer mission in Syria to be expanded, even though he says Damascus has failed to adhere to a ceasefire central to an agreed peace plan.
In a report to the U.N...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Black women don#039;t have the luxury of staying home]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
When Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen said that Ann Romney had ldquo;never worked a day in her life,rdquo; Romney behaved as if she had just hit the lottery. She smugly made the media rounds talking about how hard it was for her to raise her five sons. And shersquo;s right.nbsp; Stay at home...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[SNAP:  Cutting what works]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
This week has been a devastating one for children and the poor. It began with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops urging members of the House of Representatives Agriculture Committee for ldquo;moral and human reasonsrdquo; to ldquo;protect programs that serve poor and hungry people ov...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Every Republican in Congress fails Blacks]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The new NAACP Report Card for the first session of the 112th Congress is out and it shows that every graded Republican member of the House and Senate received an lsquo;Frsquo; on issues considered important to the nationrsquo;s oldest civil rights group.
In the Senate, all 46 GOP senators rece...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Public Notice   4/25/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[4/25/2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of April 25, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[The Madison Times turns 21]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 25, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Kathleen Falk makes her case for governor]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[




Kathleen Falk is attempting to become the first female governor in the history of the state of Wisconsin


It's clear that Kathleen Falk has a new energy about her as she makes her case as to why she should be the next governor of the state of Wisconsin. She says the invigoration comes ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Naomi Tutu highlighting Africa Night 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp; Delphine Vakunta, of the African Students Association, is organizing Africa Night 2012  Dancers from last year's Africa Night  Desmond Tutu's daughter, Naomi Tutu, will be the special guest for the 10th annual ldquo;Africa Nightrdquo; at the Memorial Union Theatre April 20. The African Stud...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Investigators say shooter #039;profiled#039; Trayvon Martin]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Trayvon Martin

WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Two investigators working for Florida Special Prosecutor Angela Corey in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin have filed court documents saying George Zimmerman, who was arrested last week, ldquo;profiledrdquo; the Black youth in Sanford,...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Interview with Dr. Mads Bilbert:]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Dr. Mads Gilbert, professor of medicine at the University of North Norway
ldquo;You are being lied to. Your media does not tell the realities on the ground,rdquo; states Dr. Mads Gilbert, flatly. ldquo;It's not shown in a truly journalistic and investigative way. Where is your tax money going ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Habitat for Humanity of Dane County CEO to step down]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[(MADISON) mdash;Habitat for Humanity of Dane County CEO Perry Ecton will be leaving the Dane County affiliate to take a position as Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Broward County in Florida. 
Ectonrsquo;s last day will be Tuesday, April 24. A search committee has been formed and is ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Charles Tubbs is new director of Emergency ManagementMADISON mdash; Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced April 17 that he has selected current Chief of Capitol Police, Charles Tubbs, to serve as the new Director of Dane County Emergency Management]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced April 17 that he has selected current Chief of Capitol Police, Charles Tubbs, to serve as the new Director of Dane County Emergency Management.

Charles Tubbs

nbsp;Chief Tubbs brings considerable experience to the job mdash; a career ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Developments in stem cell research focus of April 24 WIN-Madison event]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;nbsp; The continued growth of Wisconsinrsquo;s stem cell industry, from research breakthroughs to commercial products, will be the topic of the Tuesday, April 24, meeting of the Wisconsin Innovation Network in Madison.
Dr. Anita Bhattacharyya, senior scientist at the UW-Madisonrsq...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[George Curry returns as editor of NNPA News Service]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; Award-winning journalist George E. Curry has been named editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service, a position he held from 2001-2007, it has been announced by Karl B. Rodney, chairman of the NNPA Foundation, which oversees the wire servic...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Iraq: Those laboratory mice were children]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[FALLUJAH, Iraq (IPS/GIN) mdash;At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects mdash; there are just too many. Parents donrsquo;t want to talk. quot;Families bury their newborn babies after they die without telling anyone,quot; says hospital spokesman N...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[What a difference a gun makes]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
On April 16, 2007, our nation suffered its deadliest shooting incident ever by a single gunman when a student killed 32 people and wounded 25 others at Virginia Tech before committing suicide. Five years later, have we learned anything about controlling our national gun and gun violence epidemic? ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Don Lemon favors reporters using the N-Word]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Between the drama surrounding the arrest of George Zimmerman for the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. and the White terrorists who killed two Blacks and injured five others in Tulsa, you may have missed the news about CNN Anchor Don Lemon, an African-American, defending journ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Goodman Community Center to host 2012 El Dia de los Ninos and Latino Health Fair]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Shining a light on Parkinson Disease]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of April 18, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Hamilton advances to national competition]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 18, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Monday, April 16, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 16, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Making the dream of higher education a reality]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

The UW-Madison Odyssey Project Class of 2011-2012

Many low-income adults have an intense yearning for higher education, but often have never been given a chance in life to obtain it. The purpose of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Odyssey Project, now in its 9th year, is to help people ove...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Biliterate and bicultural skills for the global world]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[ Students at Nuestro Mundo   Rhea Vedro (left) and Patricia Venegas work for MMSD's DLI program.   Thanks to an extension, parents have a little time left to consider something that could change their child's life: the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD)'s Spanish/English Dual Language Immer...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Philadelphia mayor, others, focus on quot;black-on-blackquot; crime]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The shooting death of Trayvon Martin has been called everything from a national tragedy to a national disgrace; a hate crime with more and more rallies taking place everyday calling for George Zimmermanrsquo;s arrest and justice for the victim and his grieving family.

Philadelphia Mayor Michae...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Waiting for Obamacare(s) at the Supreme Court]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Itrsquo;s up to the U.S. Supreme Court to do the right thing for all the people: give them justice in the form of universal healthcare.
In his first month in office, President Barack Obama said, ldquo;Health care reform cannot wait, it must not wait, and it will not wait another year.rdquo; An...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[There is no fear in love (1 John 4.18)]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Bo Morrison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The death of Trayvon Martin has sparked an intense national discussion on race and justice like we have not seen in a long time. Throughout the United States this past month there have been deep and extensive conversations about racism, stereotypes, and Florida's "stand your ground" law. The Madison...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dr. Dean Pribbenow appointed vice president for academic affairs]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Edgewood College has announced that Dr. Dean Pribbenow, Ph.D. will become the next vice president for academic affairs. Dr. Pribbenow currently serves as Dean of the School of Integrative Studies at the College, a position he has held for more than five years. 
ldquo;Dean Pribbenow...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Population: Strong majority of U.S. Jews likely to stick with Obama]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) mdash; Despite his repeated differences with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a strong majority of U.S. Jews are likely to vote to re-elect President Barack Obama in November, according to major new survey of Jewish opinion released here Tuesday.
More than six out of...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Angola: After ten years of peace, ldquo;Angola#039;s future is darkrdquo;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp; CAPE TOWN, South Africanbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Angola celebrated 10 years of peace on Apr. 4. Since the end of its 27-year- long civil war in 2002, the countryrsquo;s economy has prospered thanks to oil. But experts fear that parliamentary elections later this year could return the country ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Health disparities cause financial burdens for families, communities, and health care system]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON mdash; Health disparities are creating economic burdens for families, communities and the nationrsquo;s health care system. Across the country, infant mortality and chronic diseases continue to affect people of color at rates far higher than those for whites.
In recent years, the foc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Young blacks more optimistic about race relations]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Over the past 11 years, I have had the opportunity to work closely with the Godfather of Hip-Hop, Russell Simmons.nbsp; We co-founded the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) in 2001.nbsp;nbsp; We have convened more than 75 Hip-Hop Summits across the United States, Canada, and in South Africa, al...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[African American Student Recognition Program]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISON mdash; Madison Metropolitan Chapter of The Links, Inc. will sponsor its annual African American Student Recognition Program on Sunday, May 20 at Madison College, Truax Campus Gymnasium, 3550 Anderson St.nbsp; The recognition program for elementary students will begin at 1:30 pm; for ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin was standing his ground]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Most people are asking whether Floridarsquo;s lsquo;Stand Your Groundrsquo; law should apply to George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain who killed an unarmed Trayvon Martin. Thatrsquo;s the wrong question. A better one is, given the circumstances, did the law protect Trayvon...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Women in Focus Inc. to host scholarship ceremony at Edgewood College April 22]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
It will be a fun afternoon of celebrating accomplishments and anticipating future success as Women in Focus (WIF) Inc. will distribute scholarships to outstanding area students at Edgewood College April 22.
nbsp; Every spring, WIF awards scholarships to minority students in the greater Madison c...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Students preparing for upcoming 18th annual 100 Black Men of Madison African American History Challenge Bowl this weekend]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; The 100 Black Men of Madison will be hosting its 18th annual African American History Challenge Bowl, Saturday, April 14, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Doyle Administration Building, McDaniel's Auditorium, 545 West Dayton St.nbsp; 
This annual event is a contest for middle and high schoo...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 12, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Hoodie Rally]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of April 11, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[April 11, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 11, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Edgewood College#039;s 7th Annual Hatheway History Lecture:  quot;There#039;s still more work to be donequot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

(l-r) Carroll Heideman;nbsp; Andrew Witt, associate professor for the Edgewood College History Department; Rita Bender, honorary lecturer,for the 7th Annual Hatheway History Lecture; And Dean Pribbenow, Dean of the School of Integrative Studies


In 1964,nbsp; Bender's husband, Mickey Schwe...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Poll:  Obama leads Republican rivals]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

President Barack Obama holds a slim lead in Pennsylvania, according to a new poll, which also gave the president a bigger edge in two other important swing states, Florida and Ohio.
ldquo;Obama is on a roll in the key swing states. If the election were today, he would carry at least two states...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Delta Sigma Theta#039;s celebrate 35 years]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

Patricia Haley-Glass was the guest speaker at the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.'s celebration Luncheon and Program March 31.

The Madison Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. celebrated the 99th anniversary of the sororityrsquo;s founding and the 35th anniversary of Madiso...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[House passes $3.5 trillion 2013 budget---Medicaid, student aid, Head Start slashed]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan

A Republican-proposed federal budget for the 2013 fiscal year that would cut taxes for the wealthy, restructure Medicare, and slash federal spending cleared the House of Representatives March 28 with no support from Democrats, and opposition from 10 G...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Parks#039; Place/Gail Moore:  Still we cry for justice]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[While we all have an obligation to report crime when we see it, George Zimmerman a self-appointed want-a-be cop and neighborhood watch-captain took the civil commission to another level, when acting as a vigilante stalked, confronted, harassed, and killednbsp; Trayvon Martin, an unarmednbsp; 17-ye...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[UW Science Expeditions]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[WWOCN presents:  quot;Well Women of Color:  Nurturing our Body, Mind and Spiritquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[


The Wisconsin Women of Color Network (WWOCN) celebrated Women's History Month with its ldquo;Well Women of Color: Nurturing our Body, Mind, and Spiritrdquo; March 31 in the Evjue Community Center of the Urban League of Greater Madison.
The featured speaker was Dr. Felicia D. Robertson (pict...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison-area business leaders and professionals convene to plan for and celebrate workplace diversity]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[2012 Workplace Diversity amp; Leadership Summit and Awards Luncheon May 16, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monona Terrace

Maria Campbell
nbsp;
nbsp;MADISON ndash; Given a choice, would talent choose you? This thought-provoking theme, among other important questions, will launch the conversation as professi...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Habitat ReStore to open second store on westside of Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash;The Habitat ReStore will open a second store on Madisonrsquo;s Westside at 5906 Odana Road. The store is expected to open in July.

Habitat ReStore Director Jen Voichick said the decision to expand is because there is an untapped market for donations from Westside communities such ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison students are intertribal Middle School Science Bowl Champs]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Affordable housing out of reach]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;
Late last year, Americarsquo;s homeownership rate dropped to 66 percent, the lowest since 1998. Amid continuing foreclosures and short sales, millions of former proud homeowners now find the cost of their American Dream financially out of reach. For many displaced by foreclosures, rental ho...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane County awards $16,790 in grants for local conservation, restoration programs]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; MADISON mdash;nbsp; Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced the approval of $16,790 in grant awards through the Dane County Environmental Councilrsquo;s Community Partners Program and Capital Equipment for 18 projects that will restore natural areas and promote c...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[United States government ponders diplomacy or sanctions for Iran]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; WASHINGTONnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; A former top state department official singled out diplomatic engagement as the best available option for ending decades of quot;mistrust and misunderstandingquot; between Washington and Tehran.
quot;Take the sanctions pressure and turn it in...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Chad: As famine spreads, mothers break open anthills in search of food]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;Nrsquo;DJAMENA (IPS/GIN) mdash;quot;Only God knows what will happen to me and my children - for two months there's been nothing to eat. We're living like beggars,quot; Henriette Sanglar, a mother of four in the Moursal quarter of the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, told IPS.
quot;The famine ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Who cares about Trayvon Martin?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
The shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Fla. has dominated national news lately, with African-Americans more than twice as likely as Whites to follow the story very closely, according to a study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[How our nation can protect children, not guns]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
When the Childrenrsquo;s Defense Fund released its new report, Protect Children, Not Guns 2012nbsp; in March, we dedicated it to the memory of Trayvon Martin and the thousands of other children and teenagers killed by guns in America, including the 5,740 killed in 2008 and 2009 according to the ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[We are all Trayvon Martin]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Inbsp;have two nephews that I love with an amazing passion.nbsp; Anyi, 28, is a Los Angeles based comedian, who kinda looks like me and acts like me.nbsp; He is my absolute escort of choice when I am in Southern California.nbsp; Armand, 25, is an Oakland-based aspiring writer, and a 2008 gradu...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County hosts surprise birthday party for Badger Rob Wilson]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of April 4, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[April 4, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Capoera:  Afro-Brazilian art form fusing martial arts, dance, music and self-defense]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[April 04, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[.Health Care Across Borders]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 29, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[School Board Elections---vote April 3!!!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 29, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[School board candidates face off in key election]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Mary Burke, Community Focused



ldquo;We're at a critical junction right now. We're not trending positive,rdquo; says MMSD school board seat 2 candidate Mary Burke. ldquo;We have to turn the ship around. But I see opportunity. There aren't any challenges that scare me or that we can't do som...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin#039;s parents re-live a #039;nightmare#039;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
WASHINGTON (NNPA) ndash; On the night of Feb. 26, Tracy Martin and his girlfriend had gone out to dinner in Sanford, Fla., leaving his 17-year-old son, Trayvon, behind at the townhouse with plans to watch the NBA All-Star game scheduled to be televised at 7 p.m. from Orlandorsquo;s Amway Center....]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Shen Yun 2012 at the Overture Center:  Presenting 5,000 years of Chinese history and culture]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Shen Yun 2012, which will be stopping on its national tour at the Overture Center on April 4-5, is a tremendous showcase of traditional Chinese culture that has been passed down through 5,000 years of Chinese History.

After more than 60 years of Communist rule in China, and especially after the...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[A reflection on voting]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Please, get out and vote!
Last year, Jackiersquo;s family reunion was held in her hometown of Selma, Alabama. Although the hot and humid south is the last place I wanted to be in July, I knew that this was a great chance for my wife to see her home and family and for our daughter, Lexi, to learn s...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[This is my vote:  This is your vote, too!]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
On April 3rd: Your vote could bring victory, ownership, trust, and empowerment to your community.

Yes, one vote does count and it will make a difference!
nbsp;
Cast your vote for the best candidate who represents yourvalues and beliefs.nbsp; We as the people who can vote mustwork diligently...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Twelve things to remember about the Trayvon Martin case]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
1) Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old Miami student visiting Sanford, Fla., near Orlando, with his father when he was killed On Feb. 26. His father, who also lives in Miami, was visiting his girlfriend in Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated townhouse community.
2) Trayvon had made a short trip to a near...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Questions for Madison school board candidates]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[  Nichelle NIchols, Seat 1     1) Closing the achievement gap starts with honest acceptance that we are indeed a different Madison than we might want to believe.nbsp; As a community, we need to understand that we are all connected and impacted by this issue.nbsp; As a school district, we need Boar...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Superintendent announces intent to retire from MMSD]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Together with the Board of Education, Superintendent Dan Nerad announced March 26 his intent to retire from the Madison Metropolitan School District and not seek an extension to his current contract.
ldquo;It is an honor to serve the children and staff of this district,rdquo; Nera...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane County launches new program to increase private dollars for local arts and culture projects]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp; MADISON mdash; Individuals or organizations seeking funding for local arts and culture projects are invited to learn more about how to post projects on a new online giving platform through the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commissionrsquo;s Dane Arts program.nbsp; 
The new program, Power2G...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[New CDC Campaign Targets HIV Crisis Among Black Women]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[To combat the high toll of HIV and AIDS among Black women in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched Take Charge. Take the Test., a new campaign to increase HIV testing and awareness among African-American women.
The campaign which features advertising, ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Baka people seek an identity and education in Cameroon]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[UPPER NYONG DIVISION, Cameroonnbsp; (IPS/GIN) mdash; Kokpa Pascale Moangue, a Baka Pygmy in southeastern Cameroon, has given his children the one thing he always longed for, but his parents could not give him mdash; an education. And he was able to achieve it by obtaining a simple piece of paper:...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[BGCDC featured on the front page of the U.S. Department of Education website]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;MADISONnbsp; mdash; The Boys amp; Girls Club of Dane County is being featured on the front page of the official blog for the U.S. Department of Education for the strategic role the Club is playing in addressing the achievement gap. 
The blog highlights how the Boys amp; Girls Club along w...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Madison student walks the halls of Congress]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[Latino youth receives unmatched leadership development from nationally recognized internshipnbsp;program

nbsp;WASHINGTON, D.C. mdash; The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), the nationrsquo;s premier Hispanic youth leadership development and educational organization, is hosting Li...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Dane Dances! celebrates quot;luckyquot; 13th year]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Dane Dances! is announcing its 13th year of free entertainment every Friday night in the month of August on the rooftop of the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. The events are one of the highlights of summer in Madison by providing a diverse mix of food, music, and danc...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Nikki Giovanni in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Famed poet, activist and educator Nikki Giovanni was in town March 21 to advocate the necessity of finding onersquo;s voice in a time of political turbulence in order to create a difference, as a part of the Wisconsin Union Directoratersquo;s Distinguished Lecture Series.
She took some time out...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin stress test---we failed]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[quot;Canrsquo;t we just get alongrdquo;? Those famous words from Rodney King still apply to America today. It is 2012 and race based hate haunts us daily. There is always something sensational to remind us that we have yet to overcome this evil. The latest big indication that it still lives is th...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;Walking While Blackquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Every parent raising Black sons knows the dilemma: deciding how soon to have the talk. Choosing the words to explain to your beautiful child that there are some people who will never like or trust him just because of who he ismdash;including some who should be there to protect him, but will inste...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Week of March 28, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 28, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Celebrating 30 years of improving community health]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Dr. Ken Loving, CEO of Access Community Health Centers

Technically, Access Community Health Centers is a health care provider, but what makes their work so important is how they can strengthen the community. ldquo;Having kids healthy for school, and having adults healthy for the workplace... t...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Panmela Castro:  Brazilian artist brightens up Willy Street]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[

(l-r)nbsp; Melissa Morales and Eugenia Podesta of Vital Voices Global Partnership, Panmela Castro, Mother Fool's owner, Stephanie Rearick, and Alberto Vargas, Associate Director of the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Program (LACIS) at UW-Madison.

Panmela Castro's finished mural at Mot...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[President Obama expresses quot;Lovequot; for Black Press]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;nbsp;
President Barack Obama speaks to publishers who were in the nation's capital to celebrate NNPA's annual Black Press Week.

WASHINGTON (NNPA) mdash; President Barack Obama expressed admiration for the balanced picture African-American newspapers present of the Black community each we...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Delta Sigma Theta to host Founders Day and 35th Anniversary Celebration Luncheon and Program]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; On Saturday, March 31, members of the Madison Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. will celebrate the 99th anniversary of the sororityrsquo;s founding and the 35th anniversary of Madison Alumnae Chapter.nbsp; 
Patricia Haley-Glass, an Essence award-winning and nation...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Trayvon Martin]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Seventeen year old high school student, Trayvon Martin, was recently shot and killed by a white neighborhood watch vigilante in Sanford, Florida.

JUSTICE DEMANDED IN THE DEATH OF TRAYVON MARTINnbsp; by Marc H. Morial


ldquo;Everybody is outraged.nbsp; There is no justice in this.rdquo;...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Visit South Madison Project release party at Villager Mall]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp;Community members packed into the community room of the South Metropolitan Planning Council at the Villager Mall in the heart of Madison's south side March 19 for the official release of the Visit South Madison Project.
The event was hosted by Dan Guerra, CEO of Argus Ventures, LLC,nbsp; who...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Mahlon Mitchell throws his hat into ring for Lieutenant Governor]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE mdash;nbsp; Firefighter and union leader Mahlon Mitchell announced March 19 that he'll run against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch in a likely recall election.nbsp;

Mitchell, a lieutenant in the Madison fire department, currently serves as the president of the Professional Fire Fighters o...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[County Executive Parisi Recognizes Bill DiCarlo]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[nbsp; MADISON mdash; Dane County Executive Joe Parisi recognized Alliant Energy Center Director Bill DiCarlo for more than a decade of service to Dane County and its residents.nbsp; DiCarlo will retire this summer after running the countyrsquo;s Alliant Energy Center complex (AEC) for 14 years. ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Where is the Black Press in the Digital Age?]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[The ldquo;State of the Black Pressrdquo; round table and luncheon held at the National Press Club during this yearrsquo;s Black Press Week in Washington, DC highlighted the need for black publishers to migrate to more widely sourced digital platforms in order to expand their readership and surviv...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Poll shows little U.S. support for Syria intervention]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (GIN) mdash; Despite strenuous efforts by prominent neo-conservatives and other hawks, a war-weary U.S. public is clearly very leery of any armed intervention in what many experts believe is rapidly becoming a civil war in Syria, according to recent polls.
In a survey released last week...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Made visible:  Women, children and poverty]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West deserve high props for their summer poverty tour.nbsp; They started on an Indian reservation, hit the inner city, and looked at poverty, in all of its manifestations.nbsp; While many dismissed their high-profile tour as a political ploy, I am absolutely convinced...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[quot;A Healthy Start:  Protecting Great Gains for Children in the Affordable Care Actquot;]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[
Since our founding almost forty years ago, the Childrenrsquo;s Defense Fund has fought to ensure that all children in America receive the healthy start they need and deserve. Next week marks the second anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the federal health reform legislation, which has ...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Medial Visits Don#039;t Have to be a Pain for Kids]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
<news>
	<title><![CDATA[Van Jones to keynote environmental film festival in Madison]]></title>
	<description><![CDATA[MADISON mdash; Green jobs advocate Van Jones, president and co-founder of the economic reform organization Rebuild the Dream, will deliver the keynote address for the Tales from Planet Earth film festival at the Barrymore Theater, 2090 Atwood Ave. in Madison on Monday, March 26.
nbsp; Named one o...]]></description>
	<date><![CDATA[March 21, 2012]]></date>
	</news>
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