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The 2017 Milwaukee Film Festival announced this year’s festival lineup for the Black Lens program. Now in its fourth year, the program features documentary and fiction films by African American filmmakers that explore a range of topics rooted in the black community and are relevant to all. The lineup includes Academy Award winner and Milwaukee Film Board Member John Ridley’s new documentary Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992, a 20th anniversary, 35mm screening of the classic film Love Jones, and two shorts programs titled Black Lens Shorts: Family Matters and Black Lens Shorts: Lost & Found. “Adding additional films,...

The hum of excavators moving 9,000 tons of dirt will soon be replaced by the sound of music and applause on Milwaukee’s near north side. With excavators towering in the background, St. Ann Center’s Bucyrus Campus hosted the Good Earth Celebration on August 11. The event spotlighted the major soil cleanup underway on the center’s 7.5-acre campus that will prepare the property at 2450 W. North Avenue for construction of a brand-new community band shell. “I am very proud that the St. Ann Center is bringing a state of the art band shell to our district,” Alderman Stamper said....

“There’s no moral equivalency between racists and Americans standing up to defy hate and bigotry.” – Senator John McCain As with many complex topics, unpacking serious issues can require a lot of words that strain comprehension and incite defensive feelings over a controversial subject. Dave Pell, the writer of NextDraft, boiled down the essence of discussions surrounding the radical white acts of terrorism that took place in Charlottesville, and the presidential reaction to them (or specifically, the lack thereof). His insight is from a progressive viewpoint, but wanting a better community is universal to any city, and aptly applies...

A member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Congresswoman Moore said Trump’s remarks on August 15 defending some of the white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville, while blaming counter-protesters for the eruption of violence, is evidence enough that Trump is unfit to serve as president of a constitutional democracy. In response to yet another defense of the hate groups responsible for those hate groups, Congresswoman Moore issued the following statement on August 15: “As we once again hear Donald Trump defend those responsible for the deadly riot in Charlottesville and receive praise by hate groups like the KKK and neo-Nazis,...

Almost 67 years have passed since the last American military commander considered using Atomic weapons on the Korean peninsula, Milwaukee’s own General Douglas MacArthur. With the escalation of rhetoric between Trump and North Korea, specifically the use and retaliation potential of nuclear weapons, the perspective of General MacArthur remains just as relevant today. “I shrink with a horror that I cannot express in words, at this continuous slaughter of men in Korea,” said General MacArthur in his testimony before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees in 1951, on what he witnessed in Korea. General MacArthur always considered...