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On Metaphor & Simile, Synecdoche & Metonymy: A fresh perspective on ZIP MKE

Posted by Dominic Inouye | Mar 5, 2018 |

I used to tell my English students that metaphor was the most important rhetorical device humans had ever created. Metaphor compares two seemingly dissimilar things in a new way. It’s a big powerful equal sign (that, in itself, was a metaphor). But metaphor is so much more than poetry to be appreciated or studied in a class–“All the world’s a stage,” “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,” “wine-dark sea” or “I know how the caged bird sings”–though these are certainly timeless and lovely parallels. Without metaphor, I would insist, there would have been no Hammurabi’s Code or...

We have been sleepwalking through Dr. King’s dream

Posted by Reggie Jackson | Jan 15, 2018 |

Milwaukee joins America in celebrating what should be the 89th birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on January 15. This man is a giant in American history. Yet most of us only know a few words he spoke at the end of a public address during the summer of 1963, known as the “I Have a Dream” speech. He was so much more that soundbite. His legacy has been stuck on that hot August day, nearly five years before his life was taken by an assassin’s bullet fifty years ago. Those famous words he spoke have...

Year In Review 2017: Connecting the dots back to Milwaukee

Posted by Editor | Dec 25, 2017 |

Year In Review 2017

AltHistory book offends AltRight as KKK brings censorship campaign to UW-Milwaukee

Posted by Editor | Nov 24, 2017 |

The Journalism Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee received a letter from the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in protest of a fictional book in early October. The message was written by a representative of a KKK faction in North Carolina. It comes in response to a recently published novel, “The Slave Players” by Megan Allen, asking libraries and colleges across the nation to ban the book. The plot is a mix of Django Unchained meets The Hunger Games (or Battle Royale by Koushun Takami). The modern day and fictional story takes place in the...

Bryan Stevenson: An unspoken history of lynching African-American veterans

Posted by Bryan Stevenson | Nov 10, 2017 |

“It is impossible to create a dual personality which will be on the one hand a fighting man toward the enemy, and on the other, a craven who will accept treatment as less than a man at home.” [1] The end of the Civil War marked a new era of racial terror and violence directed at black people in the United States that has not been adequately acknowledged or addressed in this country. Following emancipation in 1865, thousands of freed black men, women, and children were killed by white mobs, former slave owners, and members of the Confederacy who...

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...