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Tips for your new 'corona casual' look

Mad Mag's fashion blogger, Taryn Pemberton Schmidt, gives some advice on how to nail a chic loungewear look.

The M List 2019: Evolutionaries

Five local innovators are creating opportunities for underserved populations, and they’re achieving it with ingenuity and passion.

Homelessness: The long road home

Shamiaa Stewart is setting an example for how homeless families in the Madison area can turn their lives around through resources available in the community.

Equity By Design consults organizations on diversity and inclusion

Equity By Design LLC is a consulting company that helps organizations develop and organize their strategies around how they engage with and relate to diverse communities around them.

21 Madison-based organizations that focus on Black empowerment

Here's a list of donation opportunities to support local groups working to fight racial injustice and lift up Black people and families in our community.

A nonprofit founder envisions a new path

The shift from crisis to recovery could present an opportunity to disrupt disparities.

Investing in restorative justice

The June 2016 arrest of Genele Laird for causing a disturbance at East Towne Mall challenged this community on many levels.

Dismantling the prison pipeline

These stories have led me to conclude there is an active pipeline in Dane County: one in which traumatized young men and women enter the child welfare system, move into juvenile delinquency and ultimately end up in the adult criminal justice system.

The stunning colors of black culture

Exhibit and clothing store showcase black beauty

Sabrina Madison working to launch accelerator program to help black women change the face of leadership

Women make 85 cents for every dollar a man makes — white women, that is.

The Warrior Voice: Madison woman’s nonprofit helps sexual abuse survivors cope

Lilada Gee shares her powerful message of healing with other Black female survivors of sexual assault

Muslim in Madison

Despite the rise of political rhetoric painting Muslims with a broad brush, Madison's Islamic community is diverse, devoted and 10,000-strong.

Facing the reality of race relations

As we approach the end of 2016, we will remember this as the year we faced the reality of race relations across the country and in our city. The topic of race relations was at the forefront of the presidential campaigns and an issue that law enforcement agencies grappled with nationwide. Police shootings of unarmed black men and civilian shootings of officers have sparked overdue conversations about race.