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Wisconsin Black Pages connects people with Black-owned businesses For more than two decades, a woman in Milwaukee has been helping people find African American owned businesses to patronize. Shelia Payton has been doing it through a directory called the Wisconsin Black Pages. and last updated 2021-02-06 23:35:28-05 MILWAUKEE — For more than two decades, a woman in Milwaukee has been helping people find African American owned businesses to patronize. Shelia Payton has been doing it through a directory called the Wisconsin Black Pages. Courtesy: Wisconsin Black Pages Wisconsin Black Pages,...

Door, she went bed to bed making sure everyone who wanted to vote could. thanks to new york governor andrew cuomo's voting extension rules in the wake of sand whyy, she was able to collect 75 affidavit ballots to be signed by storm victims and then delivered on tuesday before the polls closed. she even found time to cast her own slow the. the cake topper, she secured a first-time registration from a 79-year-old new york city native named james who told us, quote, i should have done this before. i'm glad she convinced me. and if i'm around the next four years, i'm going to vote. i really will. ...

Voting booth where everyone is able to exercise this franchise. almost everyone. for many displaced by hurricane sandy, getting to the polls on tuesday became not just a hardship, it became an impossibility. an impossibility that our foot soldier of the week, lydia beasley, refused to accept. she began volunteering at her local ymca after it was repurposed into a storm shelter with 500 beds populated mostly by displaced elderly and special needs citizens. during some down time she sat listening to evacuees seriously debating the presidential election. she asked them, will you be able to vote? ...

0 president and those tears he shed. good morning. aim melissa harris-perry. you already know the big news of the week. on tuesday night barack obama was once again elected president of the united states. but this year's party in chicago had nothing on 2008. back then more than a quarter million people crowded into grant park. mother nature even seemed sure of the outcome offering up an unbelievably warm 60 degree chicago night and the place was crowded with more black vips than the ethnic music festival. this year was more modest. a single podium draped with a touch of bunting, a far more t...