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A federal court determined that Wisconsin’s Republican-drawn electoral map is unconstitutional.
A local family will get a home makeover for the holidays, thanks to Fiskars and the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County.
About 2,000 Black Friday shoppers did at least part of their shopping at the Black Business Expo Black Friday Edition, including some families in need with the help of an anonymous donation.
The City of Madison honored the people indigenous to the area by declaring Ho Chunk Day.
Local startup Kurbi developed an app to help people with chronic pain and other health issues maintain an active lifestyle.
UW student DeShawn McKinney is a Rhodes Scholar finalist.
The Boys and Girls Club of Dane County fed more than 800 people at their Thanksgiving dinner on Tuesday.
Columnist Olivia Collins wrote that living as a woman of color in a rural area can be “scarier than gunshots.”
Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Jen Cheatham is thankful for her students’ parents.
Young, Gifted and Black Coalition leader Eric Upchurch wants to solve the explicit bias toward fakeness.
Gloria Ladson Billings lists all the ways the new administration is “Trumped up.”
In other news …
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro died at the age of 90.
Comedian Dave Chappelle inked a deal with Netflix for three comedy specials reportedly worth $60 million.
Dylan Roof, who is accused of shooting and killing nine African Americans at a church in South Carolina, has been deemed fit to stand trial.
The WIsconsin Badgers football team secured a spot in the Big Ten championship game by virtue of Iowa’s 40-10 upset of Nebraska.
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