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Ride Against Hate: Sikh Motorcycle Club makes cross-country journey to Oak Creek for August 5 memorial
The Sikh Motorcycle Club rode from the Stockton Gurdwara in Stockton, California to the Oak Creek...
Sister Norma Pimentel: An impromptu chat with the “Pope’s favorite nun” during a drive to the border
MISSION TO THE BORDER: In late June, Milwaukee-based Forward Latino led a delegation to the...
Why the Sikh Temple massacre remains an inconvenient example of Milwaukee’s caring and complicity
For my parents generation, I remember the TV news would always ask people where they were when...
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- Pardeep Kaleka
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Reggie Jackson: The Myth of America as a land of Representative Democracy
“The United States is a representative democracy…voting in an election and contacting our elected...
Pardeep Kaleka: The connections of our Sacred Faiths are calling us to embrace mutuality
There are no shortage of discussions that highlight how we are more disconnected now than ever...
We Need Imagination: A glance at my 2020 bookshelf
In the early days of the stay-at-home orders, I woke up and immediately – as if guided by...
Reopening Schools in Wisconsin: The dilemma of returning to normal during abnormal times
This is an opinion piece. No more and no less. Just an opinion shared in an online publication,...
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Insecurity by design: Waukesha officials move to end universal free school meals in latest blow to families
The COVID-19 pandemic forced students to pack up their bags and switch from whiteboards to...
Location unveiled for new youth correctional facility in Milwaukee to replace Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake
Governor Tony Evers announced on August 9 that the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) has...
I am not a crook: When Nixon preferred to step down as America’s president rather than admit his own guilt
Early in the morning on June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a 24-year-old security guard at the Watergate...
Divided by purity politics: Why squabbling among progressives is pushing democracy into the Abyss
This should be easy. We have just endured the most corrupt, inept, and relentlessly predatory...
Male Supremacy: What will men do when religious autocrats come for the women in their lives?
A Texas woman with an ectopic pregnancy, a life-threatening condition that never produces a baby,...
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The enduring spirit of Chardi Kala: How Oak Creek’s Sikh community continues to share “eternal optimism”
Ten years ago, the Sikh community suffered the most devastating attack against Sikhs in American nation’s history. To memorialize the tragic event, a public memorial vigil was held on August 5 outside the Sikh Temple, attended by hundreds of people from across Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the nation.
