Is America's prosperity tied to engaging its poorest citizens? Operation HOPE Founder John Hope Bryant explains how rebuilding the path to the middle class for the poor could create a stronger economy for all.
BORN FREES/MILLENNIALS
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RESPECT-4-RESPECT - Stand your Ground Law
CLICK photo. SIGN-UP, FRIDAY, February 21, 2014
Sunday, August 10, 2014
MEET LA'Frisko Lewis - Discussionist, July 26, 2014
Milwaukee - Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC 4-Month Invoked Atonement #4 Assembly was held on Saturday, July 26, 2014, Center Street Library, 2727 W. Fond du Lac, Milwaukee, WI 53210.
Theme:
War on Incarceration, Employment and Vision 2050
La'Frisko Lewis, Business Student, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee was the Discussionist on:
Black
Males Incarceration Rate in Wisconsin
Workforce Challenges for 2013" by: John Pawasarat and Lois M. Quinn, Employment and Training Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, his research observations and personal experience.
He gave nine (9) reasons for the Incarceration rate and 4 solutions. Reasons
According to La’Frisko Lewis, there are 9 reasons that lead to the high Incarceration of Black Males. They are:
1. Police Traffic Stops
2. Revoked Driver’s Licenses and Transportation
3. Limited Job opportunities
4. Racial segregation to Racial divide
5. Parking tickets - issuance and building debt
6. Drug laws - all of them
7. Mandatory sentencing
Seventy-five
to eight-five (75%-85%) percent of all inmates in Wisconsin prison are related
to drugs
8. Unemployment among Black Men in Milwaukee, WI
9. Recidivism - Go back to prison within 3 years.
There are four (4) solutions. They are:
Lewis provided 4 sets of solutions for Black male incarcerations. They are:
I). Employment; II). Laws and Policies; III). Education Programs; and, IV). Medical Programs.
I. Employment Programs
• Better opportunities in and out of
the city of Milwaukee for family-supporting jobs.
• Better opportunities for public
transportation to jobs in and outside of the city.
• Better
communication centers for information sharing of labor, incarceration laws,
probation and revoked licenses.
II.
Laws and Policies
• Revisit
laws and regulations that allow harassing and profiling of African American and
others with replacements of laws and regulations for Code of Conduct that
disallow abuse of power, discrimination, violation of rights with punishment of
police officers that disobey.
• Strict enforcement of civil rights
laws of 1964, Amendment 13 and Amendment 14.
• Revisit
parking violation laws that constantly add amounts - this creates problems for
those who do not have jobs and/or cannot pay.
• Revisit ALL the laws that have
strict mandates where the violation or crime does not match the punishment.
• Use
of ways to seek restitution from offenders that are outside of the prison
system and can be contributions to society through work programs.
• Less funding to the thriving
business of prisons
Funding the corporations of prisons are promoting the
increase in imprisonment and wasting taxpayer money. Let’s find a way for
prisons and prisoners can pay for their stay and more money can be spent on
educating people on how not to go to prison.
III.
Education Programs
• Provide
training of laws regarding “stop and seizure” is one way to start educating the
consumer. This would include the recent
Supreme Court decision regarding police use of data on “cell phones”.
• More
after school programs that are affordable and accessible for education advancement,
exposure to marketplace variety, improvement (including drug-free courses) can
help curve and end the massive incarceration among Milwaukee young African
American males.
• More vocational training
Creating more programs like Job corps can help the young
black men. Even job corps is not publicizing for the youth know there are other
options and they never failed to short to succeed.
IV. Medical Programs
• Substance abuse treatment
(Probation)
This is a MAJOR problem I believe investing more into
substance abuse treatment programs can help decrease the violation of
probation. Substance abuse is one of the main reasons young males in Milwaukee
returns back to prison.
• Stop cutting funding to counseling
Cutting funds to counseling is a major problem
considering the fact that a lot of young black men who sell deals also use of
drugs. Counseling can help in numerical
cases. Disable families, molestation,
orphans, etc. Most substance abuse is
created from situation just stated.
• Stopping the process early in
childhood (mandatory to take drug-free classes throughout
school)
Make it Mandatory to take drug-free classes throughout
school, creating an awareness of the consequences of selling
and
using drugs.
• Substance abuse treatment (Probation)
This is a MAJOR problem I believe investing more into
substance abuse treatment programs can help decrease the violation of
probation. Substance abuse is one of the main reasons young males in Milwaukee
returns back to prison.
• Stop cutting funding to counseling
Cutting funds
to counseling is a major problem considering the fact that a lot of young black
men who sell deals also use of drugs.
Counseling can help in numerical cases.
Disable families,
molestation, orphans, etc. Most
substance abuse is created from situation just stated.
• Stopping the process early in childhood
(mandatory to take drug-free classes throughout school)
Make it Mandatory to take drug-free
classes throughout school, creating an awareness of the consequences of selling
and using drugs.
More information on crime awareness in the
community.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Ta-Nehisi Coates with Bill Moyer
Why listen?
To be informed.
To offer you a thought to examine that is so critical in today's world.
To directly look at "Racism-bigotry-exploitation-discrimination-disenfranchisement".
To help make the world you live in BETTER.
To recognize your biases and prejudices; and, to critique you.
Advice on Writing From The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates
Listen for the window of wisdom and advancing your skill-set.
Awareness
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Save the Girls of Nigeria - A Cry out for the girls and their families
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Nigeria's kidnapped girls sold into marriage |
More than 200 kidnapped girls and women have been reportedly sold into marriage with their Boko Haram abductors for $12.
Scores of young girls and women kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are being forced to marry their Boko Haram abductors, a local human rights group has reported.
Halite Aliyu, of the Borno-Yobe People’s Forum, told the Associated Press on Wednesday that more than 200 girls who were kidnapped two weeks ago had been sold to the fighters for $12.
Aliyu said the information given about the mass weddings was coming from villagers in the Sambisa Forest, on Nigeria’s border with Cameroon where Boko Haram was known to have a number of hideouts.
"The latest reports are that they have been taken across the borders, some to Cameroon and Chad,'' Aliyu said.
It was not possible to verify the reports.
Community elder Pogu Bitrus of Chibok town, from where the girls were abducted, told the BBC's Hausa service that some of the kidnapped girls "have been married off to insurgents"
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FBI Poised to Head to Nigeria to Help Rescue Kidnapped Girls
Terrorist Group Vows to Sell Kidnapped School Girls in Nigeria
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Friday, April 25, 2014
Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC 4-MONTH Atonement Kick-off was held on Holy Saturday, April 19, 2014
City Center Milwaukee | Today, Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC is proud to announce the next 4 dates of the 2014 FOUR (4) MONTH Invoked Atonement Discussion Assemblies - APRIL 7, 2014 - AUGUST 7, 2014.
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SATURDAY, MAY 17, 2014 - 9:00am - 10:30am
Wisconsin Black Historical Society
2620 W. Center Street - 27th & Center
SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2014 - 9:00am - 10:30am
Wisconsin Black Historical Society
2620 W. Center Street - 27th & Center
SATURDAY, JULY 19, 2014 - 9:00am - 10:30am
Wisconsin Black Historical Society
2620 W. Center Street - 27th & Center
SATURDAY, AUG 16, 2014 - 9:00am - 10:30am
Wisconsin Black Historical Society
2620 W. Center Street - 27th & Center
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On Saturday, April 19, 2014, a NEW, HISTORICAL and SPECIAL meeting was convened to kick-off a 4-MONTH Atonement with 1-2-3 Actions to begin to put in place LIKE MINDS leadership and stewardship for Milwaukeeans, starting with the Amani area and the District 15.
Charter Attendees
Auriea Mosley, NSP 6 Harambee - Westcare Wisconsin, Inc.; Sister Patricia Rogers - Dominican Center; Dr. Linda Mistele - MATC;Clayborn Benson - Wisconsin Black Historical Society, Stephen Adams- Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission and Mary Glass- Chair/CEO, Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC.
The one hour and a half meeting discussion was filled with spiritual Invocation for the meeting, neighborhood and census tract overview for the meeting, Stephen Adams informative overview of requested SEWRPC consulting, questions and comments by the engaged attendees of the the group.
Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC provided an "in print" handout of its first ONLINE Financial focus Newsletter. CLICK.
Adams provided take away copies of examples of helpful information that can be downloaded from the internet that provide state-of-the art data that SEWRPC has available for use.
The three (3) areas of focus for the 4-MONTH Atonement are:
- PEOPLE
- LAND
- RESOURCES
It is to RESPECT-4-RESPECT.
It is to address LAND, PEOPLE, and RESOURCES.
It is to look at Smart Growth Implementation.
It is to look at a NEW Comprehensive Plan for Fond du Lac/North Avenue.
It is to look at Urban gentrification that takes land with monopoly-oligopoly wherewithal - money, caucasian-based, purchased history, etc..
It is to identify the engagers - one-by-one.
It is to INFORM and REFORM with the leadership at the census tract and neighborhood level with citizen participation.
It is to bring INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY to Amani.
It is to bring full-scaled and working day-by-day:
- citizenship
- scholarship
- apprenticeship
- fellowship
- entrepreneurship
- partnership
- leadership, and
- stewardship
It is to analyze public polices of public officers at the city government level, especially the common council and mayor of the city of Milwaukee.
It is to look at disenfranchisement of funding and exploitation of African American, other People of Color and Work Challenged Milwaukeeans resources and the 14th Amendment.
It is to look at the civil and criminal possibilities of the 19-year fiasco 4-Phase North Avenue Commerce Center between the city of Milwaukee, Boldt Development, Irgens Development and Sisters of Assisi St. Ann Center.
It is to look at fraud, defrauding and misrepresentation of resources sent to empower the census tract that never reach the target.
it is misrepresentation of regulations, guidelines and waivers for use of government funds by local municipalities.
It is lack of accountability and monitoring practices by local municipalities in charge of oversight of federal funds.
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R.S.V.C.P - Reserve space for concerned participant.
CLICK Below to read a posting of the April 19, 2014 Kick-off event on Newsvine.
Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC Kick-Off Discussion Assembly
Complimentary copies of Matthew A. Johnson Fellas and Sisters were handouts.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Art, Tylonn Sawyer, Detroit & Red Bull
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| Artist - Tylonn Sawyer, Red Bull Art Gallery Enlarge - Click photo |
DETROIT, MI | Tylonn Sawyer, artist, is an inspiration and an accomplished
American from the city of Detroit, Michigan.
Bio
Tylonn J. Sawyer is a figurative artist who lives and works
in Detroit, MI.
He received a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from
the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a Bachelor
of Fine Arts degree (drawing & painting) from Eastern Michigan
University. He is also the recipient of
the Peter T. Rippon Travel Award, independent study at the Royal Academy of
Art, London England.
When Tylonn is not painting, drawing, writing, teaching,
working as the Youth Program Producer at the Museum of Contemporary Art
Detroit, cultivating/maintaining healthy relationships, or seeking some new
artistic endeavor, he can be found getting approximately 45 minutes of sleep
per year....give or take.
2003
New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art,
New York, New York — Master of Fine Arts (Painting), Cum Laude
The Royal Academy of Art London, England — Independent Study
2001
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan — Bachelor
of Fine Arts (Drawing & Painting)
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Red Bull Art Center
In Detroit the Red Bull House of Art is forging a new idea
of what a gallery can be, carving out a new storyline in a city that has never
been culturally bankrupt.
Sawyer took a look at what he had created. “It was an
intense level of stress, but I had adopted this all or nothing mentality,” he
says.
After years of being the architect of his own misery, Sawyer
realized he held the blueprint to his own salvation — both personally and
artistically. He knows that without his ups and (more importantly) his downs,
he wouldn’t be where he is today — painting, teaching, creating, living. And
without Detroit’s rich history, Red Bull House of Art wouldn’t have a
foundation to build upon.
Because no matter what you might hear, Detroit is far from a
blank canvas. To say otherwise is an idea that Sawyer and the House of Art are
rebelling against with each opening.
Lost in the headlines and stigma is a cultural cache
constantly replenishing itself with homegrown talent. The city’s art scene
overflows from the canvas into the streets, where an independent Detroit is
starting to learn more about itself by learning from the past. How does a
community and city rife with financial follies ‘move forward’ in hopes of
starting anew? How does an artist find their inspiration again after forgetting
just how good it felt to create without limitations?
It’s the look people give you when you tell them, “I’m
moving to Detroit for the cheap rent and a feeling on the ground that I just
can’t define.”
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Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC is in the process of
creating an "Art & Artists Gallery" for Hidden Talent - Born
Frees and Millennials in City Center Milwaukee.
Stay tuned.Sunday, March 2, 2014
Steve McQueen, Lipita Nyong'o and Chiwetel Fjiofor Goes to Oscar Awards - 12 Years a Slave
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| Chiwetel Fjiofor, Actor - Solomon Northrup - 12 years a Slave |
HOLLYWOOD |Chiwetel Fjiofor, actor, 12 years a Slave, Chiwetelu Umeadi "Chiwetel" Ejiofor, chew-i-tel ej-i-oh-for; born 10 July 1977) is a British actor of film, television, and theatre. After enrolling at the National Youth Theatre in 1995, and then subsequently gaining a scholarship to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, aged 19, and only three months into his course, Ejiofor was chosen by Steven Spielberg to play a small part in Amistad as James Covey.
He has received numerous acting awards and nominations, including the BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award in 2006, five Golden Globe Award nominations, and theLaurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in Othello in 2008. In 2008, Ejiofor was presented with an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the arts.[6]Ejiofor is known for his portrayal of Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things (2002), The Operative in Serenity (2005), Lola in Kinky Boots (2005), Luke in Children of Men (2006), Dr. Adrian Helmsley in 2012 (2009) and Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, along with the BAFTA Award for Best Actor.
He is considered "one of the greatest actors of his generation", and his performance as Othello has been hailed as the best of his generation.
Ejiofor was born in London's Forest Gate, to Nigerian parents. His father, Arinze, was a doctor, and his mother, Obiajulu, was a pharmacist. His younger sister is CNN correspondent Zain Asher.
In 1988, when Ejiofor was 11, during a family trip to Nigeria for a wedding, he and his father were driving to Lagos after the celebrations when their car was involved in a head-on crash with a lorry. His father was killed, but Ejiofor survived. He was badly injured, and received scars that are still visible on his forehead. Ejiofor began acting in school plays at the age of thirteen at Dulwich College and joined the National Youth Theatre. He then got into the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art but had to leave after his first year, after getting a role in Steven Spielberg's film Amistad. He played the title role in Othello at the Bloomsbury Theatre in September 1995, and again at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow in 1996 when he starred opposite Rachael Stirling, who played Desdemona.
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| Lupita Almondi Nyong'o - Actor |
March 2, 2014
HOLLYWOOD | Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983, in Mexico City, Mexico, to Dorothy and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, a politician in Kenya. It is a Luo tradition to name a child after the events of the day, so her parents named her Lupita (a diminutive of "Guadalupe," Our Lady of Guadalupe). She is of Luo descent and is the second of six children. Her father was the former Kenyan Minister for Medical Services. At the time of Lupita's birth, he was a visiting lecturer in political science at El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, and her family had been living in Mexico for three years.
In 2013, her father was elected to represent Kisumu County in the Kenyan Senate. Nyong'o's mother is currently the managing director of the Africa Cancer Foundation and her own communications company. Her cousin Tavia Nyong'o is a scholar and professor at New York University. In 2012, her older cousin, Isis Nyong'o, was named one of Africa's most powerful women by Forbes magazine. Her uncle, Aggrey Nyong'o, was a prominent Kenyan physician, killed in a road accident in 2002.
Nyong'o attended college in the United States. After graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in film and theatre studies, she worked on the production crew of many films, including Fernando Meirelles'sThe Constant Gardener, with Ralph Fiennes, Mira Nair's The Namesake, and Salvatore Stabile's Where God Left His Shoes. She cites Fiennes as another individual who inspired her to pursue a professional acting career. Nyong'o landed her breakout role when she was cast in 12 Years a Slave immediately before graduating from Yale with an MFA in 2012. The film was released in 2013 to great critical acclaim. Nyong'o received rave reviews for her performance, and has been nominated for several awards including a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and two Screen Actors Guild Awards including Best Supporting Actress, which she won. She co-starred in Liam Neeson's 2014 film Non-Stop.
Nyong'o cites the performances of Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey in The Color Purple with inspiring her to pursue a professional acting career. Wikipedia
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| Steve Rodney McQueen |
March 2, 2014
HOLLYWOOD | Steven Rodney "Steve" McQueen CBE (born 9 October 1969)[2] is a British film director, producer, screenwriter, and video artist. He is a winner of the Caméra d'Or and two BAFTAs. His 2013 film, 12 Years a Slave, won him the award for best director from the New York Film Critics Circle,[3] the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Pictureat the 71st Golden Globe Awards, and the award for best film at the 2014 BAFTAs. McQueen is known for his collaborations with actor Michael Fassbender, who has starred in all of McQueen's three feature films as of 2013.
For his artwork, McQueen has received the Turner Prize, the highest award given to a British visual artist, and in 2006 produced Queen and Country, commemorating the deaths of British soldiers in Iraq by presenting their portraits as a sheet of stamps. For services to the visual arts, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011.
McQueen's films as an artist were typically projected onto one or more walls of an enclosed space in an art gallery, and often in black-and-white and minimalistic. He has cited the influence of the nouvelle vague and the films of Andy Warhol. He often appeared in the films himself.
His first major work was Bear (1993), in which two naked men (one of them McQueen) exchange a series of glances that might be taken to be flirtatious or threatening.[12] Deadpan (1997) is a restaging of a Buster Keaton stunt in which a house collapses around McQueen, who is left unscathed because he is standing where there is a missing window.
As well as being in black-and-white, both these films are silent. The first of McQueen's films to use sound was also the first to use multiple images: Drumroll (1998). This was made with three cameras, two mounted to the sides, and one to the front of an oil drum which McQueen rolled through the streets of Manhattan. The resulting films are projected on three walls of an enclosed space. McQueen has also made sculptures such as White Elephant (1998), as well as photographs.
He won the Turner Prize in 1999, although much of the publicity went to Tracey Emin, who was also a nominee. In 2006, he went to Iraq as an official war artist. The following year he presented Queen and Country, a piece that commemorated the deaths of British soldiers who died in the Iraq War by presenting their portraits as a sheet of stamps. His 2007 short film Gravesend depicted the process of Coltanrefinement and production. It premiered at The Renaissance Society in the United States.
His 2008 feature film Hunger, about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. McQueen received the Caméra d'Or (first-time director) Award at Cannes, the first British director to win the award. The film was also awarded the inaugural Sydney Film Festival Prize, for "its controlled clarity of vision, its extraordinary detail and bravery, the dedication of its cast and the power and resonance of its humanity". The film also won the 2008 Diesel Discovery Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The award is voted on by the press attending the festival. Hunger also won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for a New Generation film in 2008 and the best film prize at the London Evening Standard Film Awards in 2009.
McQueen represented Britain at the 2009 Venice Biennale. In 2009, it was announced that McQueen has been tapped to direct Fela, a biopic about the Nigerian musician and activist Fela Kuti. Despite this, McQueen's second major theatrical release came in 2011 with the film Shame. Set in New York City, it stars Michael Fassbender as a sex addict whose life is suddenly turned upside-down when his estranged sister (Carey Mulligan) reappears.
Steve was the first to ask the big question, 'Why has there not been more films on the American history of slavery?'. And it was the big question it took a Brit to ask
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— Brad Pitt.
McQueen's most recent film is 12 Years a Slave (2013). Based on the 1853 autobiography of the same name by Solomon Northup, the film tells the story of a free black man who is kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery, working on plantations in the state of Louisiana for twelve years before being released.
McQueen is also developing a drama for HBO, which he has cowritten with Matthew Michael Carnahan and intends to direct. McQueen is working on a BBC drama about the lives of black Britons, which follows the lives of a group of friends and their families from 1968 to 2014.
Personal life
In addition to London, since 1997 McQueen has a home in Amsterdam, with his long-time girlfriend, the cultural critic Bianca Stigter, and their two children Already having been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2002, he was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the visual arts. Wikipedia
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