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Community stakeholders hold voting rallies to “Light Up” Milwaukee and cause “Good Trouble”
Baptist Ministers, Buddhist priests, Mexican immigrants, leaders from the Hmong, Jewish, Muslim...
Sheldon Lubar: Climbing mountains for adventure and as a metaphor of life’s journey
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill...
- Columns
- Reggie Jackson
- Pardeep Kaleka
- Dominic Inouye
- Kenneth Cole
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The danger of denial: Ignoring domestic terrorism and the propaganda that blinds us to its threat
“A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes truth.” – Joseph...
Reggie Jackson: I can’t find any common ground with racists
“Most racists have been uninterested in reform…racists have been either of the type who wished to...
Beyond a political Thunderdome: Our feelings are being weaponized against us
“This is the truth of it. Fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring, and that...
Until our voices go hoarse: Reflections on a summer of protest in Milwaukee
On Sunday, September 13, 2020, I marched for the thirteenth time this summer in a peaceful protest...
When Silence Kills: What has your inaction done to stop the deaths of innocent black people?
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our...
Second Life Revisited: Using a virtual world to escape the isolation of social distancing
For most people, the term “Second Life” could easily be confused as a post-death resurrection...
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- John Pavlovitz
- Heather Richardson
A History of Racism: Understanding how White Americans used lynchings to control Black people
The City of Milwaukee has one documented case of a lynching, involving George Marshall Clark in...
Ignoring Jesus: The problem with the American distortion of Christianity
I meet thousands of people every year who rightly recoil against Christianity in America, who are...
Lord of the Flies: Small insect generates big social media buzz from Vice Presidential debate
The first and only vice presidential debate for the 2020 election was held on October 7, and it...
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Milwaukee voters line up amid an escalating pandemic to cast early in-person ballots
Across Wisconsin on October 20 residents lined up to cast their ballots on the first day of early in-person voting in the presidential battleground state, marking the beginning of the final push to Election Day in two weeks. With the coronavirus surging, many people have been seeking alternate ways to vote.
