With a dedicated career helping children and families adversely impacted by immigration, homelessness, abuse, and oppressive systems in South America, Europe, and his native Milwaukee, Luke serves as Director of Program Design and Community Engagement at the Institute for Child and Family Well-being at Children’s Wisconsin.
As an award-winning Senior Columnist for the Milwaukee Independent, Reggie Jackson covers a range of African American issues. He is also a Consultant with Nurturing Diversity Partners, and volunteers as Head Griot for America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) in Bronzeville.
REGGIE JACKSON: 7x Award Winner in Best Column categories from the Milwaukee Press Club
As a teacher for over twenty years, Dominic Inouye helped students to develop their reading, writing, critical thinking, and, most of all, their voices. He worked as The Pfister Hotel Narrator, a one-year appointment, and currently manages the ZIP MKE project that photo documents the city to promote cultural understanding.
Dominic Inouye: 2x Award Winner in Best Column category from the Milwaukee Press Club
Dr. Kenneth Cole is a Licensed Psychologist who has spent the past two decades helping members of the community in developing the ability to bring about positive change for their lives, and empowering those individuals to advocate for themselves.
Kenneth Cole: 2x Award Winner in Reporting categories from the Milwaukee Press Club
Pardeep Kaleka is the Executive Director of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, published author of The Gifts of Our Wounds, award-winning columnist with Milwaukee Independent, and a clinician specializing in utilizing a trauma-informed approach to treat survivors and perpetrators of assault, abuse, and acts of violence.
PARDEEP KALEKA: Winner in Best Blog category of the 88th Annual Milwaukee Press Club Awards
John Pavlovitz: Winner of Best Blog at the 89th Annual Milwaukee Press Club Awards
Recent Columns
Hungary’s democratic collapse offers a blueprint for Trump’s authoritarian vision for America
In the eyes of radical MAGA conservatives, Viktor Orbán is not just a European leader, he is a prophet. The Hungarian prime minister has become a celebrity figure in far-right American circles, regularly praised on Fox News, invited to speak at CPAC events, and...
Republican revival of failed Reaganomics pushes Milwaukee seniors toward hunger and despair again
The last time the American public watched their elderly parents eat dog food to survive, Ronald Reagan had just swept into office, and a Republican-led economic crisis was gutting the middle class. Four decades later, the same party, driven by Trump’s nationalist...
The price of cruelty: America’s immigration crisis is the direct result of its own foreign policy
America’s immigration “crisis” is not a mystery. It is not the product of chance, circumstance, or some inexplicable global shift. It is the predictable consequence of decades of calculated cruelty, using a foreign policy designed to destabilize, displace,...
Trump pone en duda su creencia en el derecho fundamental al debido proceso mientras busca “gobernar el mundo”
En una entrevista transmitida el 4 de mayo en Meet the Press de NBC News, la periodista Kristen Welker le preguntó al presidente Donald J. Trump si estaba de acuerdo con que toda persona en Estados Unidos tiene derecho al debido proceso. “No lo sé. No soy abogado. No...
Space 2025: Why a U.S. moonbase penal colony would be a natural step for forced deportation after Alcatraz
Donald Trump has not proposed building a prison on the moon, yet. But the idea of launching his enemies into orbit, exiling criminals to a cold crater, and vanishing dissenters into the silent void fits seamlessly into Trump’s political behavior. Someone needs only to...
Cowardice can be contagious: Governor J.B. Pritzker gives barn-burning speech to energize Democrats
There has been a change afoot in the Democratic Party for a while now as its leaders shift from trying to find common ground with Republicans to standing firmly against MAGAs and articulating their own vision for the United States. That shift burst dramatically into...
No welfare for farmers: If we reap what we sow then rural voters should not expect taxpayer bailouts
Farmers across America have become a political paradox. They have rallied for free markets, decryed “handouts,” and scorning safety nets as socialist overreach, until those very mechanisms were needed to serve them. Today, they are demanding yet another...
Propaganda’s reach: How Kremlin disinformation tactics echo in Trump’s America and erode truth
As Russia wages its brutal and unprovoked war on Ukraine, a troubling alignment has emerged not only among those inside Russia’s media sphere, but also among some Ukrainian Americans and conservative U.S. TV viewers who repeat narratives that mirror Kremlin...
Exploring when a political leader morally and legally qualifies to be called a domestic terrorist
This AI-generated image is a photorealistic editorial illustration and not an actual photograph. It was created to support a journalistic commentary as a political cartoon. The term “domestic terrorist” carries legal, political, and cultural weight in the United...
