Author: NNS

Supporters of America’s Black Holocaust Museum, and people who remember the museum fondly from its days at 2233 N. Fourth St., are celebrating the news that the museum has been offered space in a new building to be constructed at the corner of North Avenue and Fourth Street. Alderwoman Milele Coggs, who represents the Sixth District where the new building is to be located, announced recently that Maures Development Group will receive federal tax credits from the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) to support the project. The money will jumpstart the four-story, 41-unit building in which the...

A controversial partnership between Casimir Pulaski High School, a traditional MPS school, and Carmen Schools of Science and Technology, an MPS charter school network, is underway, but questions persist about whether Pulaski students and teachers are sufficiently involved in the process. The partnership, which was approved late last year by the MPS school board, will see staff, parents and students of the two schools working side by side within the Pulaski building, 2500 W. Oklahoma Ave., beginning in August. Each school plans to have 800 students enrolled at the 1,600-student capacity building by the 2019-20 school year. “There have...

Purple and blue strands of reflective tinsel, pulled backward by the wind, whirl in a chaotic dance from the handlebars of a children’s Huffy bicycle, giving the young rider the illusion of intense speed. The gleeful expression on the girl’s face exclaims that spring has arrived and with it, the time for outdoor activities such as riding bikes. Her bike came from DreamBikes, a nonprofit shop founded by Trek Bicycle Corp. The shop sells bikes for riders of all ages, while also employing area teens, explained Ashley Parker, program assistant at DreamBikes – Milwaukee Founded in 2008 by Trek...

Jerome King spent Saturday wading through the Milwaukee River, putting garbage into a black plastic bag. As a lifelong Milwaukee resident, he said he felt it was his civic duty. “People throw their trash all over the place without caring about where it ends up,” he said. “If we want a clean city, we need to do the cleaning.” King has participated in Milwaukee Riverkeeper’s annual Spring River Cleanup for several years and is one of nearly 4,000 volunteers who attended this year’s event. Milwaukee Riverkeeper, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving and protecting the Milwaukee River Basin, has...

Carrying his Canon camera and flashing a wide smile, Mario Sinclair walked up to a fireman on an overcast day across from the Milwaukee Public Museum and asked simply, “What are you most afraid of in life?” The fireman shared how he had almost died in a house fire while on the job. Ten minutes later, Sinclair found himself talking to a man with a blue bandana wrapped around his left leg walking in front of the Milwaukee Public Library. “Tell me your life story,” Sinclair asked. The man talked about doing harm to someone who had abused a...

After Ashara Rogers gets ready for work and puts on her headphones she’s set for anything. Boarding the Route 61 bus at Sherman Boulevard and Roosevelt Drive, Rogers, 18, sets her music streaming app to play the widest possible variety of tunes while riding to work. “I listen to all kinds of music, I love everything,” she says flashing a big smile. Getting to her job in Menomonee Falls hasn’t always been as smooth as the mellow jazz Rogers sometimes listens to from her preferred window seat towards the back of the bus. Until last month, the nearest bus...