A guide to understanding what Juneteenth is and how to celebrate the 160-year-old national holiday
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed, after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining...
Wisconsin dairy farmer files lawsuit claiming Trump is failing to stop discrimination against White farmers
A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed on June 16 that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to White farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities. The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed...
When a cult goes mainstream: Inside the toxic psychological engine of Trump’s MAGA movement
With Donald Trump’s return to the White House in 2025, his political base has emerged as one of the most studied and polarizing forces in American political history. Hardened through years of social upheaval, conspiracy rhetoric, and loyalty tests, the voting...
A divided nation still battles over the legacy of independence 250 years after the American Revolution
Thousands of people came to this Massachusetts town on April 19 just before dawn to witness the beginnings of the American Revolution. Amid a hail of gunfire, they watched as British soldiers confronted an overmatched group of Lexington Minute Men on Lexington Battle...
“No Kings” protest draws massive Milwaukee turnout in defiance of Trump’s military spectacle
Thousands of demonstrators packed Cathedral Square Park in Milwaukee on June 14 in a powerful display against Donald Trump and his military-themed birthday celebration in Washington DC. The protest, part of the nationwide “No Kings” movement, was one of the largest in Wisconsin.
How the military spectacle marking U.S. Army’s 250th birthday will unfold under Trump’s imperial gaze
The tanks are staged and ready to roll. Barriers are up. Protective metal plating has been laid out on Washington’s streets. And more than 6,000 troops are poised to march near the National Mall to honor the Army’s 250th anniversary on June 14, which...
Outrage after Senator Padilla tackled for opposing Noem’s coup threat against elected California leaders
“If this is how they respond to a senator with a question, imagine what they’re doing across the country … you can only imagine what they’re doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers, throughout the L.A. community and throughout California and...
Broadband deserts in Milwaukee expose a form of digital redlining that mirrors historic inequalities
In Milwaukee, where legacies of housing discrimination still shape economic opportunity and public health, a quieter but equally consequential form of infrastructure inequality persists: digital redlining. Despite national attention on the racial and economic gaps in...
la comunidad puertorriqueña de Milwaukee celebra el histórico regreso del desfile tras tres décadas de ausencia
Milwaukee fue sede del regreso del Desfile del Día Puertorriqueño el 8 de junio, marcando la primera vez en tres décadas que la ciudad celebró públicamente a gran escala el Día Nacional Puertorriqueño. El desfile comenzó en South 16th Street y National Avenue, avanzó...
Milwaukee advocates join peaceful nationwide protests against Trump’s mass detentions by ICE in L.A.
Donald Trump made no secret of his willingness to use maximalist tactics to enforce his biased interpretation of immigration laws as he campaigned in the 2024 election to stay out of jail. The fulfillment of that pledge to Americans is now on full display in Los...
Milwaukee Independent emerges as a Wisconsin leader for reporting on artificial intelligence
As artificial intelligence reshapes global industries, raises ethical alarms, and floods the internet with generated content, few Wisconsin newsrooms have approached the subject with the consistency or depth of the Milwaukee Independent. While national outlets have...
Nationalist revisionism: How the 1776 report laid the groundwork for Trump’s war on U.S. history
Four years after it was quietly released in the final days of Donald Trump’s first term, a little-known White House document, the “1776 Report,” has reemerged as a central ideological guidepost for the president’s second-term push to reshape public education, censor...
