A Dream Deferred: Toshio Mori survived internment camps to become the first Japanese American novelist
By Alessandro Meregaglia, Assistant Professor and Archivist, Boise State University Eighty years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which led to about 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the western United...
Spiritual but not religious: Why Japan’s Shintoism is attracting American followers and growing online
By Kaitlyn Ugoretz, PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California Santa Barbara Originally raised as Methodist, Kit Cox is part of a growing trend of Americas who are practicing the Japanese religion known as Shinto. At...
Plan to expand charging stations in Wisconsin for electric vehicles turns sour in fight over profits
A bill progressing through the Wisconsin Legislature was meant to spur the expansion of electric vehicle charging by confirming that private businesses can sell electricity to drivers at charging stations. But amendments to the bill have turned electric vehicle...
State of the State 2022: Governor Tony Evers proposes legislative action on budget surplus to help residents
Governor Tony Evers announced his intention on February 15 to call a special session of the state Legislature regarding his plans for a projected multi-billion dollar surplus in his last State of the State address of the current term. The move comes weeks after Evers...
An Insect Evolution: Scientists discover how enzymes from plastic-eating bugs can boost recycling
Microbes in oceans and soils across the globe are evolving to eat plastic, according to a recent study. The research scanned more than 200m genes found in DNA samples taken from the environment and found 30,000 different enzymes that could degrade 10 different types...
Milwaukee seeks state financial help to address public safety issues with funds from budget surplus
Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson is calling on the state Legislature to use a portion of the nearly $2.9 billion budget surplus to help the city address its unprecedented challenges with public safety. Two children, ages 10 and 15, were kіIIеd over the February 12...
How a “violent insurrection” has been part of the GOP playbook for “legitimate political discourse”
By Amy Fried, John M. Nickerson Professor of Political Science, University of Maine; and Douglas B. Harris, Professor of political science, Loyola University Maryland The Republican National Committee has legitimized the January 6, 2021, Capitol attacks. The RNC...
Robin D. G. Kelley: How scholars are countering well-funded attacks on Critical Race Theory
Invoking Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in mid-December, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced new legislation that allows parents to sue schools for teaching critical race theory. “You think about what MLK stood for. He said he didn’t want people judged on the color of...
Black players, White head coaches: Why the NFL’s effort to diversify team leadership shows no progress
By George B. Cunningham, Professor of Sport Management, Texas A&M University Brian Flores, the former Miami Dolphins head coach fired at the end of the 2022 season, filed a lawsuit on February 1 against his former team, the NFL and two other NFL teams, charging...
Mayoral candidates debate range of issues before city’s first election without an incumbent since 2004
The seven candidates competing in Milwaukee’s mayoral primary focused on topics including reckless driving and housing at a forum on February 9. All of the candidates in the race were at the event at the Turner Hall Ballroom in Downtown Milwaukee. The impending...
The intent of discrimination: How Republicans are redefining racism in order to exclude Black voters
Although the phrase “All politics is local” is usually attributed to Tip O’Neill Jr, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the aphorism probably originated in the February 1932 Associated Press column “Politics at Random,” when the Washington bureau...
Our parks are for us: Community support needed to preserve public greenspaces across Milwaukee County
By Marcelia Nicholson, Guy Smith, and Rebecca Stoner • Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service The past few years have reinvigorated our love of parks, many of us realizing that the only way to be with our loved ones safely is outside. We meet on park benches, picnic...
