Author: Correspondent

The sixth annual VA Mental Health Summit will be held on June 23 and focus resources on African-American veterans. Hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, guest speakers at the mental health summit will include Delphine Metcalf Foster, first woman and first African-American to serve as national commander for the Disabled American Veterans, and Reggie Jackson, head griot for America’s Black Holocaust Museum. “Part of our mandate is to make sure that all of the veterans in our community know all of the services that are available and what the VA has to offer,” said William Johnson, minority veterans program...

World history and imaginative artistry collide in a summer collaboration involving the UWM Libraries, UWM’s Peck School of the Arts, RedLine Milwaukee, and Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum. The exhibition “Look Here!” runs from June 28 through September 16 at Villa Terrace, and will feature the work of 14 Wisconsin artists and their reinterpretations of artifacts from the UWM Libraries. The materials featured will span centuries and continents, from Milwaukee’s turn-of-the-century south side to colonial India. “We keep these cultural heritage items as evidence of the past, to document and provide access to our history,” says Ann Hanlon, head...

Good City Brewing, an upstart urban brewery on Milwaukee’s East Side, is opening a second production facility and taproom as a key part of the Entertainment Block development in downtown Milwaukee. In signing a lease to occupy 11,000 square feet of Building A located along Juneau Avenue, Good City will be one of a few select tenants anchoring the Entertainment Block, a new development currently under construction that is slated to open in spring of 2019. “Andy Jones, David Dupee and I intentionally put down roots and made a bet on Milwaukee when we founded Good City in 2016,”...

Preserve Our Parks, a local non-profit advocacy group, announced recently that it will launch a grassroots “Our Turn” petition drive to protest the loss of funding for Milwaukee County parks. The petition call on County officials direct more funding to repair and maintain the County’s 140 parks and parkways. “Our parks are in crisis,” said Jim Goulee, president of Preserve Our Parks. “We funded stadiums and arenas, and now it’s ‘our turn’ for parks funding. Our parks are a critical part of the quality of life in Milwaukee County. The parks and trails that make up our ‘emerald necklace’...

The key message of a new public education campaign launched, by the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health (WAWH), and supported by the National Partnership for Women & Families, is that the biggest threat to Wisconsin women’s ability to access quality reproductive care comes from politicians in the state. The campaign highlights findings from a new, rigorous report by the nonpartisan National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, including that abortion is safe and that medically unnecessary regulations undermine access to quality abortion care. The new campaign contrasts these findings with the fact that politicians have made accessing abortion care...

A new study suggests that the main threat to our democracy may not be the hardening of political ideology, but rather the hardening of one particular political ideology: when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy. – Noah Berlatsky A new research study confirms what most people have suspected for a long time, that bigoted white Americans are not committed to preserving democracy. The authors argue that these individuals are more inclined towards endorsing authoritarianism. In a working paper, White Outgroup Intolerance and Declining Support for American Democracy, Steven V. Miller...