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Real Talk with Percy Brown takes one more look back at the historic interview Ice Cube gave to ABC 25 years ago, this time to discuss the Black economy and the importance of building our own.
Intellectual Ratchet has a bunch of fun stuff planned for your summer.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin is thinking about making a run for governor.
UW-Madison’s PEOPLE program is retooling, cutting out its middle school program and focusing on Madison and Milwaukee.
Madison East alum Jeremy Thornton is returning to his alma mater as head football coach.
The Mann Scholars Program celebrated 20 years of turning college dreams into reality.
A new study found the rate of child victims of gun violence is disturbingly stable.
Two UW alumni started the viral hashtag #blackandhooded and a related website to celebrate black students getting master’s degrees.
The new Today Not Tomorrow Family Resource Center opened at East Madison Community Center.
Dane County approved a new Early Childhood Zone just off Northport to support northside children and families.
The UW System has established an Advisory Diversity Council made up of statewide leaders in business, nonprofits and education.
Columnist Gloria Ladson-Billings told Bill Maher that dropping the n-word is a big “no,” and offered 20 other notes of advice for white folks.
And a local white lady also offered seven things her fellow white people might not know, but should.
In other news
A California fire chief wears a Police Lives Matter bracelet but won’t allow a firefighter to wear a Black Lives Matter pin.
A Chicago man was arrested after a racist tirade in a Starbucks.
A Sheriff’s deputy and her husband have been charged with murder after cell phone video emerged of the husband using a chokehold to subdue a Latino man, who later died.
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