Coming of age during a pandemic: Why more American youth choose to skip the crippling debt of college
When he looked to the future, Grayson Hart always saw a college degree. He was a good student at a good high school. He wanted to be an actor, or maybe a teacher. Growing up, he believed college was the only route to a good job, stability and a happy life. The...
Pandemic learning losses: Classrooms across the country race to catch up on students’ reading levels
Having missed most of first grade, the foundational year for learning to read, Michael Crowder stood nervously at the front of his third grade classroom holding a book. “Give us some vowels,” said his teacher, La’Neeka Gilbert-Jackson. His eyes...
How Jane Rosenberg’s courtroom sketch of Donald Trump created a viral sensation from a dying art
By Anita Lam, Associate Professor, York University, Canada For the first time in its history, “The New Yorker” featured a courtroom sketch on its cover. The image, which appears on its April 17, 2023, issue, gives viewers a glimpse of a historic court...
Ron DeSantis faces revelations about his military assignment in Guantanamo’s “Torture Machine”
Recently, there have been troubling revelations about Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a leading 2024 GOP presidential aspirant, concerning his conduct as a Navy JAG officer at Guantanamo Bay. His responsibilities at the detention facility apparently included responding...
What it means now the Director-General of WHO declares emergency phase of COVID pandemic is over
The World Health Organization downgraded its assessment of the coronavirus pandemic on May 5, saying it no longer qualifies as a global emergency. The action reverses a declaration that was first made on January 30, 2020, when the disease had not even been named...
Medical gaslighting continues for people with long COVID more than 3 years into the pandemic
By Simran Purewal, Research Associate, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University; Kaylee Byers, Regional Deputy Director, BC Node of the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative; Senior Scientist, Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, Simon Fraser...
A hidden people: How generations still experience the trauma of being uprooted from their homes
By Dina Matar, Professor, Political Communication and Arab Media, SOAS, University of London When Palestinians commemorate the Nakba on May 15, they are not only remembering a violent historical event that took place 75 years ago which led to the uprooting of over...
The Nakba at 75: Why Palestinians continue to struggle for recognition of their catastrophe
By Maha Nassar, Associate Professor in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona On May 15, 2023, the United Nations will stage a high-level special meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, the mass displacement of...
Grandson of Nelson Mandela to speak in Milwaukee on solidarity with the Palestinian people during U.S. tour
Milwaukee will host the grandson of Nelson Mandela today, May 15, as part of his tour in the United States promoting awareness of the Nakba and support for the Palestinian people. May 15 marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or the 1948 expulsion of Palestinian...
From invasion to liberation: Sergi Mykhalchuk earns 2 Milwaukee Press Club awards for his images in Irpin
Somewhere in Ukraine, at an undisclosed location along the frontlines, Sergi Mykhalchuk received a Facebook message from Milwaukee that his work documenting Irpin’s evacuation and later liberation had won two journalism awards. On May 12, the Milwaukee Press...
Milwaukee Independent earns 3 of its 11 Gridiron Awards for first-hand reporting of Ukraine War
The Milwaukee Independent earned eleven top distinctions on May 12 from the Milwaukee Press Club for Excellence in Wisconsin Journalism, during the 2023 Gridiron Awards at the Pfister Hotel. The journalism honors follow multiple years of double-digit recognition for...
Milwaukee-based “Friends of Be an Angel” is saving lives and offering hope in war-damaged Ukraine
Entire cities in Ukraine have been destroyed, displacing more than 14 million residents from their homes, schools, and livelihoods for the past year. Since the early days of the war, Milwaukee-based nonprofit Friends of Be an Angel has made extraordinary efforts in...
