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Lena Taylor
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Harriet to Cummings: Our Ancestors Wildest Dreams
Recently, when acknowledging the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans in what we know today as America, someone said something that I could not shake. We are our…
I Got Five On It!
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Calls for A Fair Deal, Requires A Fair Assessment of Resources In Jordan Peele’s hit movie “Us”, many hip-hop music fans were reminded…
Crisis of Leadership
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor The Constitution Is Fine, It’s the Leadership That is the Problem If you are like many residents, you have begun to realize there…
Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Legislatively Speaking Did you know that there were two Emancipation Proclamations? Okay, technically one was called the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It’s the proclamation that most of our textbooks leave out…
And Then They Came For Us
Legislatively Speaking First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did…
Shared Revenue aka “A Money Grab”
Legislatively Speaking The system of “Shared Revenue” in this state has been around for a long time. It was started in 1911, when a Ford Model T Town Car cost…
You Don’t Just “Move On” From Systemic Racism
Legislatively Speaking Recently, I congratulated TeKema Balentine for winning the coveted title of Ms. Black USA. TaKema is a native of Madison, Wisconsin and represented our state in the national…
Housing Navigators Could Help Homelessness
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Due to the size and layout of Milwaukee, it is possible to rarely see homeless individuals sleeping on city streets overnight. Although the…
Red Flag for America
Legislatively Speaking In the United States we’ve been taught that the color red can mean danger. A flashing red light signals a need to stop. Most of us sense internal…
Compete, Don’t Cheat
Legislatively Speaking “How can it be that successful, distinguished people—take [former New York State Gov.] Eliot Spitzer, who I think was a true civil servant when he started out his…