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Congresswoman Moore delivers Trumpcare message to Speaker Paul Ryan

Posted by Correspondent | Jul 3, 2017 |

In response to efforts by Senate Republicans to pass the Better Care Reconciliation Act, also known as Trumpcare, U.S. Representative Gwen Moore spoke on the Floor of the House last week. The Congresswoman from Milwaukee directed her remarks directly to Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, who helped draft the controversial legislation that is expected to take health care coverage away from 22 million Americans. “I want to talk to you, Mr. Speaker, very directly. We’ve talked a lot about the 22-23 million people who will lose their healthcare if we were to repeal and...

Sendik’s new grocery store to serve Marquette University area

Posted by Correspondent | Jul 1, 2017 |

Marquette University President Michael R. Lovell announced that a new Sendik’s store will open in the heart of the Marquette campus on the northeast corner of 16th and West Wells Streets. The store, which is anticipated to be a catalyst for additional area development, will open during the 2017-18 academic year. “From my earliest days as president at Marquette, I told our students and our partners in the Near West Side that bringing a top-quality grocer to our community was the highest priority,” Lovell said. “With more than 90 years of outstanding experience serving Milwaukee, Sendik’s arrival in our...

A look back at “March on Milwaukee” after half century

Posted by Margaret Rozga | Jun 29, 2017 |

Early in the evening of Monday, August 28, 1967, over one hundred members of the Milwaukee Youth Council of the NAACP gathered at their headquarters at 1316 North 15th Street, picked up signs hand-lettered with slogans like “We Need Fair Housing,” and, led by Father James E. Groppi, a white Roman Catholic priest who served as their adviser, headed toward the 16th Street viaduct. At about 6:30 p.m. they were greeted at the north end of the viaduct by almost another one hundred supporters and crossed over the viaduct to the nearly all-white south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There...

Photo Essay: Emancipation and community on Juneteenth Day

Posted by Lee Matz | Jun 21, 2017 |

The 46th Annual Juneteenth Day Festival was held June 19 along Milwaukee’s MLK Drive, between Center and Burleigh Streets, attracting a crowd of thousands to celebrate the end of slavery that still lacks a national federal holiday. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and the enslaved were free. In the early years, little interest existed outside the African American community for participation in the Juneteenth celebrations. In some cases, there was hostile resistance by forbidding the...

Rozalia Hernandez-Singh depicts female pride with “Our Beauty in Strength”

Posted by Lee Matz | Jun 16, 2017 |

Rozalia Hernandez-Singh is one of the five female artists who was hired by the Kinnickinnic Avenue BID to paint a large-scale mural along Bay View’s main retail corridor, with a work titled “Our Beauty in Strength.” The “Street Canvas” project is part of an overall enhancement initiative long the main street of the Southside artery, once the most frequently traveled road connecting Milwaukee and Chicago. The five commercial buildings selected along the mile-long stretch of Kinnickinnic Avenue, or simply KK as the street is commonly known, are as architecturally diverse as the area is culturally. Nova Czarnecki, Jenny Jo...

Jenny Anderson colors faces that “Fade Into Blue”

Posted by Lee Matz | Jun 15, 2017 |

Jennifer Anderson is one of the five female artists who was hired by the Kinnickinnic Avenue BID to paint a large-scale mural along Bay View’s main retail corridor, with a work titled “Fade Into Blue.” The “Street Canvas” project is part of an overall enhancement initiative long the main street of the Southside artery, once the most frequently traveled road connecting Milwaukee and Chicago. The five commercial buildings selected along the mile-long stretch of Kinnickinnic Avenue, or simply KK as the street is commonly known, are as architecturally diverse as the area is culturally. Nova Czarnecki, Jenny Jo Kristan,...