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Wisconsin’s Attorney General Josh Kaul said in an interview on December 14 that he would not investigate or prosecute anyone for having an abortion should the U.S. Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade, and a currently unenforceable state ban takes effect. The comments are Kaul’s strongest to date about how he would react to the Supreme Court undoing the landmark 1973 ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. A Wisconsin ban enacted in 1849 has been unenforceable under Roe v. Wade, but would take effect again if conservative Supreme Court justices decide to overrule Roe. The high court indicated the possibility...

We have heard trial testimony and seen evidence of the events that occurred on the night that Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two people and injured another, during a Black Lives Matter protest in Kenosha on August 25, 2020. While Rittenhouse was not held accountable, he was not the only one whose conduct on that deadly night should be scrutinized. The actions,  and inaction, of the Kenosha Police Department and the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department in the preceding 72 hours played a critical part in the tragic events that took place. As we reflect on that night, we must...

Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges on November 19 after pleading self-defense in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a flashpoint in the debate over guns, vigilantism, and racial injustice in the United States. A jury of seven White women, four White men and one man of color took nearly four days to render their verdicts. Rittenhouse, 18, began to choke up and then hugged one of his attorneys as he heard a court clerk recite “not guilty” five times. A sheriff’s deputy whisked him out a back door. “He wants to get on with his life,” defense...

Early in Nadiyah Johnson’s career as a computer scientist, she discovered that for many people, including people of color and women, the technology industry was not an entirely comfortable space. As a Milwaukee-native and Black woman, she had just reported her summer internship efforts to top executives who were responding positively, when Johnson’s supervisor called her over to a corner of the room. ‘We’ve got to do something about your hair,’” Johnson remembered the White supervisor telling her. “It’s way too distracting.” Johnson, who founded software development company Jet Constellations, has made it her mission to ensure that people...