Author: Staff

Historical contribution of Native American Code Talkers is invaluable, cultural insensitivity is unfortunate. During an event at the White House on November 27 honoring Native American Code Talkers who used their indigenous languages to encode American military communications during World Wars I and II, President Donald Trump made reference to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas.” The remark prompted immediate backlash. “First and foremost, we appreciate the honor and recognition that has been bestowed upon the Navajo Code Talkers, who truly are National Treasures and protectors of freedom,” Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye said. “It was our Code Talkers...

Faith leaders put on sackcloth and ashes, to dramatize their grief over Christians who make excuses for racial hatred and sexual abuse rather than fighting oppression on November 20. Christian theologians symbolically grieved over the corruption of United States Christianity and called the country into a time of reflection and action to end oppression. The American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature met in Boston, Massachusetts, and launched the pronouncement at the Old South Church. Over 100 theologians, bishops, and leaders in Christian seminaries and denominations were signatories the Boston Declaration to protest the demise of...

The Pringles Thanksgiving Dinner is a pilot taste test and has only limited availability. Generation-X (GenX) remembers not having parents at home to cook, and the thrill of the pre-microwave TV dinner. Even the overpriced Lunchables were preferred to a smashed PB&J sandwich with the companion sliced apple that had turned brown, or the over-ripe banana. For kids of the 1980s, pre-packaged meals were a realization of the future. But holidays were different, and usually involved real food. Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful, even though in Milwauke and around the country it takes the form of family...

While shoppers rush to consume more things they do not need during the annual holiday sale ritual, the Milwaukee Riverkeeper is offer an opportunity for members of the community to help conduct research into the quality of the city’s water resources. For Black Friday, area residents are encouraging volunteers to #OptOutside as part of REI’s efforts to celebrate the outdoors and its benefits. Volunteers will collect water samples from one of the organization’s Emerging Contaminants Monitoring Sites, at 14 locations throughout the Milwaukee River Basin, anytime on Friday, November 24. An online map displays the sites on the Milwaukee...