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Now available for streaming on Neflix, “White Right: Meeting the Enemy” is the 2017 documentary by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan who joined the frontline of the race wars in America, sitting down face-to-face with Neo-Nаzіs and fаscіsts. Netflix picked up the documentary in June, which includes a segment on the August 5, 2012 Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting. It details how the son of one of the victims, Pardeep Singh Kaleka, got in contact with former skinhead Arno Michaelis in order to gain some understanding of why the tragedy happened. When Deeyah Khan was six, her father took her...

“There’s nothing like my hood. No, you can’t replace it. My city hustle hard. No, you can’t mistake it. It’s not what haters sayin’ but what we make it. I’ve been around the world and, ain’t no place like home.” – Coo Coo Cal He dominated the Billboard charts for 8 weeks with the No. 1 record in the country in 2001. “My Projects” sold over a million copies worldwide, then cocaine and street life ruined it all. Now Calvin Bellamy A/K/A Coo Coo Cal is back to tell his story for the first time in his episode of...

The City of Milwaukee filed a lawsuit on July 7 against Bird motorized scooters, with an injunction ordering their removal from streets and sidewalks in downtown and adjoining metropolitan areas. Arriving just prior to Summerfest on June 27, the dockless, rental scooters were parked on various sidewalks and along local streets. However, as Alderman Robert J. Bauman, chair of the Public Works Committee, pointed out it is illegal to operate these electric vehicles on any public road or sidewalk in Wisconsin. “It’s irresponsible for this company to come into Milwaukee and place the unsuspecting public in legal jeopardy,” said...

Thurgood Marshall Apartments, a key piece in Milwaukee County’s efforts to end chronic homelessness and Wisconsin’s first harm-reduction housing development, was recently honored alongside the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with the 2018 Secretary’s Award for Healthy Homes. The Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Housing Division established the model for Thurgood Marshall Apartments, as a part of the County’s Plan to End Chronic Homelessness. The County partnered with Cardinal Capital Management, Inc., which held a successful track record in working with homeless individuals...

“Whatever your faith or lack thereof, historic places of worship are among the most important fixtures of our skyline. They represent our collective memory. They connect us with our immigrant ancestors. They are irreplaceable touch stones of identity and indisputable makers of place.” – John Gurda, Milwaukee Historian church, Trinity Evangelical on 9th and highland, with an estimated $17 million in damages. Located just behind Trinity, the staff of Milwaukee PBS watched from their studio windows as flames gutted the historic neighbor. After an extensive safety review by engineers, officials have declared the church in satisfactory condition for reconstruction,...