Breakthrough Infection: Growing circulation of delta variant prompts Wisconsin to update health guidance
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced support for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s recommendations that were issued on July 27. The Delta variant of COVID-19 is highly infectious and is spreading more quickly than any other...
HHS awards Milwaukee $4M to fight COVID-19 and improve health literacy among minority communities
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) awarded $4 million to the City of Milwaukee’s Office of African American Affairs. The funding is a part of a $250 million two-year initiative to identify and implement best...
Black-owned family business aims to be catalyst of generational wealth for Milwaukee’s Black community
A Black-owned family trucking company that got its big break during to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow by focusing on creating generational wealth for Milwaukee’s Black community. A&A Services and Transportation is a subcontractor working primarily for...
Why MAGA’s view of patriotism on July 4th is like a Christmas pageant for White Nationalists
July 4th is a MAGA high holiday and Republicans know this. They know that in addition to marking the birth of our nation and the foundations of our Constitution – which clearly are of little interest to them – it is so much else: it is a valuable...
Medical College of Wisconsin researchers identify link between mortgage lending bias and cancer survival
Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) have identified a linkage between contemporary redlining, mortgage lending bias based on property location, and mortality after breast cancer diagnosis among older women in the United States. The results, published...
The American Mythology: At the heart of our nation there is a lot less to like
I used to think I loved America. I used to fully believe in its greatness. Growing up, I bought into its songs and its anthems and its stirring mythology of liberty and opportunity, which I guess was understandable. For a suburban, cisgender, heterosexual male who...
