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March

Wisconsin National Guard reflects on a historic year of deployment and public service on its 184th birthday

March 7, 2021 | Curated |
Why the National Guard remains deployed to protect the Capitol from domestic extremists

March 7, 2021 | Syndicated |
Current laws prevent domestic terrorists from being designated and prosecuted like foreign extremists

March 7, 2021 | Syndicated |
Yolanda Medina: The vital role of Latinx women in the United States military

March 6, 2021 | Articles, Featured |
Senator Tammy Baldwin introduces bipartisan legislation for Veterans exposed to toxic military base

March 6, 2021 | Syndicated |
Stranded far from home: Deported U.S. Veterans urge the Biden administration to repatriate them

March 6, 2021 | Syndicated |
A Blueprint for Peace: Putting Milwaukee’s record year for homicides in perspective

March 5, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Senator Ron Johnson forces reading of the 628-page coronavirus relief bill in cynical stunt to delay vote

March 5, 2021 | Syndicated |
Security experts warn that chronic domestic terror problems continue to simmer

March 5, 2021 | Syndicated |
No political policy but revenge: How the Big Lie and its acolytes threaten the survival of our democracy

March 4, 2021 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
From GOP to POT: The Party of Trump officially supplanted Republicans to become a political cult

March 4, 2021 | Syndicated |
The American Empire: Destabilizing countries and wrecking their economies under the guise of liberty

March 4, 2021 | Syndicated |
MKE It Back: More than 70 small business owners to get financial assistance with grant from Downtown BID

March 3, 2021 | Curated, Featured |
Partisan paralysis has torn Wisconsin’s safety net and left the jobless struggling to survive the pandemic

March 3, 2021 | Syndicated |
FDR’s principal intention for a “living wage” was to protect workers from abuse by employers

March 3, 2021 | Syndicated |
Tiffany Krihwan: Longtime S/V Denis Sullivan captain departs Milwaukee to command 127-year-old Schooner

March 2, 2021 | Articles, Featured |
Is the pandemic here to stay? How viral mutations are pushing SARS-CoV-2 into becoming endemic

March 2, 2021 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Americans continue to face serious hardships even after the trillions already spent on coronavirus aid

March 2, 2021 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Unifying against racism: “Freedom Together” advocates demand Congress take action on Immigrant Rights

March 1, 2021 | Featured, Photos |
Conspiracies and Extremism: How the Wisconsin GOP lost its credibility over the turmoil of 2020

March 1, 2021 | Syndicated |
Documenting Hate: A look back at 2017 when the Proud Boys established their first Wisconsin Chapter

March 1, 2021 | Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 022721

March 1, 2021 | Podcasts, Sound |

February

Out of the Ashes of Trump: President Biden sets course to finally heal the economic poison of Reaganism

February 28, 2021 | Syndicated |
County Executive David Crowley outlines measures to heal racial injustices in his State of the County speech

February 28, 2021 | Curated |
Milwaukee Repertory Theater to reopen after a year with first in-person performance in April

February 28, 2021 | Curated |
Acute food shortages are disproportionately pushing more Black and Latinx families to brink of starvation

February 27, 2021 | Syndicated |
A failed health policy: How a wealthy nation can go from an obesity epidemic to tragic food insecurity

February 27, 2021 | Syndicated |
Hunger Relief: How food banks help families who are struggling under the pandemic get enough to eat

February 27, 2021 | Syndicated |
How not to be an ally: A list of rules for Anti-Racist advocacy

February 26, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
The Good Lord Bird: Re-examining abolitionist John Brown’s moral crusade to end slavery

February 26, 2021 | Syndicated |
The Big Lie: Wisconsin Republicans use Trump’s propaganda to extend voter suppression across state

February 26, 2021 | Syndicated |
Calls grows for investigation into Electoral College imposters who tried to usurp Wisconsin’s certification

February 25, 2021 | Featured, Syndicated |
The Texas Freeze: How the rich use an ideology of Wild West individualism to exploit the working class

February 25, 2021 | Syndicated |
Why journalism continues to struggle against the disproportionate influence of social media companies

February 25, 2021 | Syndicated |
John Ridley launches Nō Studios Artist Grant Program to help Wisconsin’s creatives during the pandemic

February 24, 2021 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
On Healing America: Using our anger to build bridges instead of burning them

February 24, 2021 | Syndicated |
A lifelong family bond: How Black Sororities have led Black achievements for more than a century

February 24, 2021 | Syndicated |
To grieve the enormity of a half million lost American lives includes being better neighbors to the living

February 23, 2021 | COVID-19, Featured, John Pavlovitz |
Health commission finds 40% of COVID-19 deaths could be attributed to Trump’s failed pandemic policy

February 23, 2021 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Vaccine Availability: How internet access can determine the health of minorities

February 23, 2021 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
A Poverty of Color: Debunking the myth about disparities being more related to “Class” than “Race”

February 22, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Musician Sam Belton opens his highly anticipated Sam’s Place Jazz Cafe at historic Harambee location

February 22, 2021 | Photos |
An overdue apology: Why slave-trading nations like America are morally bound to offer reparations

February 22, 2021 | Syndicated |
WisDOT podcast features pandemic-specific safety tips for highway travel across Midwest states

February 21, 2021 | Articles, COVID-19 |
Report finds that 430K Wisconsin residents lack high-speed internet access in rural areas

February 21, 2021 | Syndicated |
An alternative to road salt: Scientists explore nontoxic de-icing options extracted from aquatic life

February 21, 2021 | Syndicated |
How Republican rhetoric has fed the deep roots of right-wing terrorism in America

February 20, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
New TV ad campaign urges Senator Ron Johnson to stop blocking relief checks for Wisconsin families

February 20, 2021 | Curated |
NAACP uses Reconstruction Era Anti-KKK Law in lawsuit against conspirators of Capitol attack

February 20, 2021 | Syndicated |
Healing a racial division: Mayor Tom Barrett signs ordnance extending MLK Drive into downtown

February 19, 2021 | Featured, Photos |
Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry announces campaign to run for Ron Johnson’s Senate seat

February 19, 2021 | Curated |
To Paint is to Live: Jewish Museum reopens with exhibit of artwork recovered from Theresienstadt Ghetto

February 19, 2021 | Curated |
Regional development plan outlines transformation of 30th Street Corridor into Shared-Use Trail

February 18, 2021 | Curated, Featured |
Closing of South Side fire station has escalated the workload of Milwaukee’s first responders

February 18, 2021 | Syndicated |
Undoing the Spoils System: The need to return civil service to a merit-based structure for the public good

February 18, 2021 | Syndicated |
Pardeep Kaleka: Letting go of a familiar friend by giving up our Fear for Lent

February 17, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Pardeep Kaleka |
A Digital Lent: Moderating how we use technology to assist with our expressions of devotion

February 17, 2021 | Syndicated |
Policy Talk: Joe Biden makes first official trip as President to Milwaukee for CNN town hall

February 17, 2021 | Curated |
State lawmakers continue to gaslight the Wisconsin public about Foxconn’s failed development

February 16, 2021 | Curated, Featured |
Wisconsin proposes legalization of recreational marijuana to provide more tax revenue and create jobs

February 16, 2021 | Syndicated |
From Republican’t to Republikkkan: Patriot Party of Wisconsin created over split by Trump voters

February 16, 2021 | Syndicated |
The untold privilege of White Women: Unmasking a secret army of Karens in American history

February 15, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Blackistory: Milwaukee-based family business launches educational Black History App for mobile devices

February 15, 2021 | Articles |
State budget proposal seeks to invest millions to help Wisconsin’s children, families, and caregivers

February 15, 2021 | Curated |
A world remade by Grief: How WandaVision explores the reality of ordinary people living with loss

February 14, 2021 | John Pavlovitz |
Cowards, conspirators, and more lies: Where a fragile democracy goes after the impeachment acquittal

February 14, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
Legislative effort seeks to end no-knock search warrants in Wisconsin after almost a quarter century

February 14, 2021 | Syndicated |
Jury Nullification: More violent insurrections are expected if Trump is acquitted for his acts of sedition

February 13, 2021 | Columns, Reggie Jackson |
The depth of inhumanity: When no line is too far to cross for political gain

February 13, 2021 | John Pavlovitz |
Defending the horrific: How some can cheer for an angry man who falsely shouts “fire” in a crowded theater

February 13, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
A party of lawlessness and disorder: How Republicans became co-conspirators in the abolition of democracy

February 13, 2021 | Syndicated |
Video playlist of virtual walks across Japan offers a way to step out of the isolated madness of COVID-19

February 12, 2021 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
The story of Yasuke: An enduring history of the first African Samurai in feudal Japan

February 12, 2021 | Syndicated |
Fad Diets: A chronicle of the strange American obsession with gimmick weight loss plans

February 12, 2021 | Syndicated |
Reggie Jackson: My fading love affair with the National Football League

February 11, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
A Political Game: The danger of voters acting like hard-core sports fans

February 11, 2021 | Syndicated |
New lawsuit seeks to stop part of Waukesha’s $286M plan to drain drinking water from Lake Michigan

February 11, 2021 | Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 020921

February 11, 2021 | Podcasts, Sound |
A message to America: Black people are not broken and we don’t need fixing, you do

February 10, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
The Character of Faith: People will never find peace when their God is a Gun

February 10, 2021 | John Pavlovitz |
Law enforcement continues to criminalize Black activists while accommodating White reactionaries

February 10, 2021 | Syndicated |
A Monstrous Truth: Even after the departure of a madman the political madness remains

February 9, 2021 | Featured, John Pavlovitz |
Trump clings to the “Big Lie” as impeachment trial begins over his attempt to overthrow our government

February 9, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
Another crisis of unity: Old divisions resurface to show historic fragility of American democracy

February 9, 2021 | Syndicated |
Weaponizing Unity: Decent Americans don’t need to unify with domestic terrorists to heal the nation

February 8, 2021 | Featured, John Pavlovitz |
Political Calculations: Trump’s impeachment trail looms as a fight for control of the Republican Party

February 8, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
Congress could use a Reconstruction-era Amendment to hold Trump accountable for Capitol attack

February 8, 2021 | Syndicated |
Reopening Schools in Wisconsin: The dilemma of returning to normal during abnormal times

February 7, 2021 | Columns, COVID-19, Featured, Kenneth Cole |
The Stories that matter: How the COVID generation will look back at their memories of 2020

February 7, 2021 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Lessons from Chinese social media for countering America’s COVID-19 infodemic of conspiracy theories

February 7, 2021 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
No Secret Police Force: New law requires Federal Agents to be clearly identified during a protest

February 6, 2021 | Curated |
An autocratic legacy: How the radicalization of the right gave rise to death threats of public officials

February 6, 2021 | Syndicated |
The tech crack down has pushed extremist groups off social media platforms and onto messaging apps

February 6, 2021 | Syndicated |
Michael Snowden: Storytellers have a responsibility to facilitate spaces for sharing the authentic truth

February 5, 2021 | Featured, Profiles |
A Black Woman of Faith: Federal plan revived to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill

February 5, 2021 | Syndicated |
Governor Tony Evers issues new mask mandate following GOP repeal of previous health safety order

February 5, 2021 | Curated |
Guardians of the Greed: Wall Street’s newfound concern about democracy is only motivated by profits

February 4, 2021 | Featured, Syndicated |
Kenosha prosecutors seek arrest of Kyle Rittenhouse after he disappeared from last known address

February 4, 2021 | Syndicated |
A symbol of White insurrection: The Confederate battle flag never reached the Capitol until 2021

February 4, 2021 | Syndicated |
MCTS NEXT: Milwaukee County Transit System rolls out campaign to inform riders about bus route upgrades

February 3, 2021 | Articles, Featured |
Milwaukee Repertory Theater reworks 2021 season due to pandemic and cancels performances through April

February 3, 2021 | Articles, COVID-19 |
Impact of COVID-19 on Milwaukee inadvertently creates “Autumnfest” as Summerfest 2021 moves to September

February 3, 2021 | COVID-19, Curated |
Reggie Jackson: My reflections on Black History Month celebrations

February 2, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Dasha Kelly Hamilton becomes Wisconsin’s first female poet laureate of color

February 2, 2021 | Syndicated |
Assault on the nation’s Capitol raises concern over scope of White Supremacist infiltration of police

February 2, 2021 | Syndicated |
Reggie Jackson: A Letter to My Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather

February 1, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Milwaukee Film will focus on Black voices and experiences for its February programming

February 1, 2021 | Articles |
America’s first vampire was Black: How a gothic story from the 1800s advocated for emancipation of slaves

February 1, 2021 | Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 013021

February 1, 2021 | Podcasts, Sound |

January

Barriers and Disillusionment: Obstacles still prevent Wisconsin’s nonvoters from attaining political clout

January 31, 2021 | Syndicated |
The Cowboy Mythology: Twenty years since the Reagan Revolution and the rise of Movement Conservatives

January 31, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
Which false God will American Evangelicals worship now that Trump has become a fallen deity?

January 31, 2021 | Syndicated |
Reading during the pandemic: Helium continues to expand access to library books across Milwaukee

January 30, 2021 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
Search completed for teams that will design and build future home of the Milwaukee Public Museum

January 30, 2021 | Curated |
54th Shamrock Club of Wisconsin St. Patrick’s Day Parade postponed until September 2021 due to COVID-19

January 30, 2021 | Articles, COVID-19 |
A tedious familiarity: Why even the distribution of the coronavirus vaccine has been a hot mess

January 29, 2021 | Columns, COVID-19, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Research finds that People of Color are subject to the most punitive enforcement of public health orders

January 29, 2021 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
The B117 Strain: A New Year brings a new coronavirus mutation and questions of vaccine effectiveness

January 29, 2021 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
The Coming Storm: My greatest fears about the future of Black Milwaukee

January 28, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Milwaukee Health Department converts space at the Wisconsin Center into site for COVID-19 vaccinations

January 28, 2021 | COVID-19, Curated |
An inability to control the pandemic: 70% of the population needs to be vaccinated to stop COVID-19

January 28, 2021 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Tired of Waiting: The frustration of fighting Systemic Racism for generations

January 27, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
PrideFest 2021: Milwaukee’s LGBTQ+ celebration cancelled for second year due to COVID-19 pandemic

January 27, 2021 | COVID-19, Curated |
COVID-19 changed how the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2021

January 27, 2021 | COVID-19, Curated |
The need to protect history: Even with overwhelming proof social media promotes Holocaust denial

January 27, 2021 | Syndicated |
Trump’s MAGA influence on police threatens multiracial democracy in Southeastern Wisconsin

January 26, 2021 | Articles, Featured |
From ideology to democracy: Lessons from Germany for America to heal after the Trump era

January 26, 2021 | Syndicated |
Data shows that police are three times more likely to use force against peaceful leftwing protesters

January 26, 2021 | Syndicated |
Defunding Brutality: Little progress was made in 2020 with Milwaukee Police reform

January 25, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
MCTS Bus Shelters get design makeover to celebrate Historic Highway 41 route

January 25, 2021 | Curated |
Tracking the Insurrectionists: How technology is being used to identify and locate domestic terrorists

January 25, 2021 | Syndicated |
A fortified prison of false faith: How White domestic terrorism was born in the Church

January 24, 2021 | John Pavlovitz |
Ten things that average citizens can do to stand against the anti-democracy movement in America

January 24, 2021 | Syndicated |
Trump’s insurrection follows a long history of Christian nationalist violence

January 24, 2021 | Syndicated |
Longtime home run leader and former Milwaukee baseball player “Hammerin” Hank Aaron dies at 86

January 23, 2021 | Curated |
Multiple projects with a total output of 2.2 Gigawatts are speeding Wisconsin’s transition to solar energy

January 23, 2021 | Syndicated |
Wisconsin developer creates mobile app that teaches people how to recycle and track their composting

January 23, 2021 | Syndicated |
Rise and Thrive: Five Lessons of Storytelling and Resilience in Milwaukee

January 22, 2021 | Articles, Featured |
Anti-Displacement Funds program offers Milwaukee neighborhoods a lifeline against rising assessments

January 22, 2021 | Curated |
New alumni-funded scholarship links Cristo Rey Jesuit High School graduates with Ripon College

January 22, 2021 | Curated |
The problem with Americans: Too many have surrendered the ability think for themselves

January 21, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Wisconsin National Guard troops helped ensure safety in Washington DC during presidential inauguration

January 21, 2021 | Articles |
Inaugural Address: President Joe Biden gives hope to millions of Americans who stutter

January 21, 2021 | Syndicated |
The Hill We Climb: Amanda Gorman delivers inspirational inaugural poem

January 21, 2021 | Curated |
Writing an American story of hope: Our politicians often failed us but the American people did not

January 21, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
Ending this Uncivil War: Unity is impossible without accountability

January 21, 2021 | Syndicated |
Democracy is not a spectator sport: Americans have finally woken up but still have a lot of work to do

January 20, 2021 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Leaving office in Disgrace: Farwell to a delusional president and his toxic brand of patriotism

January 20, 2021 | John Pavlovitz |
Life in Hell: A look back at the gift of moral damnation that Trump gave our imperfect nation

January 20, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
Why we cannot enjoy nice things: A resentful political party that poisoned a peaceful transition of power

January 20, 2021 | John Pavlovitz |
The election makes the president: Ritual efficacy and the public pageantry wrapped in inaugurations

January 20, 2021 | Syndicated |
Andrea Palm to join Biden Administration: Wisconsin’s top DHS official nominated as deputy secretary of HHS

January 20, 2021 | Syndicated |
President-Elect Joe Biden outlines a new vision for America that reaches back to an older time

January 19, 2021 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
Broken Windows: The willingness of our society to look the other way invites more stones to be thrown

January 19, 2021 | Syndicated |
National memorial service planned for victims of the COVID-19 pandemic on eve of inauguration

January 19, 2021 | Syndicated |
The hypocrisy of Bill Belichick turning down the presidential Medal of Freedom

January 18, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
MCTS bus shelters feature murals by student winners from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. art contest

January 18, 2021 | Articles |
New film details the terrible injustices faced by Martin Luther King Jr. in his fight with the FBI

January 18, 2021 | Syndicated |
Unequal Justice: Standing Rock activists react to passive response by police during Capitol Insurrection

January 18, 2021 | Syndicated |
The Shame of the Trump Pardons: Exposing Systemic Racism in Criminal “Justice”

January 17, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
The sad irony of “Trump patriots” using “Back the Blue” flags to beat police during a criminal act of sedition

January 17, 2021 | John Pavlovitz |
North Carolina in 1898: Lying politicians, racist newspapers, and a successful White Supremacist coup

January 17, 2021 | Syndicated |
Wisconsin National Guard mobilizing troops to support security at Presidential inauguration

January 16, 2021 | Articles |
Foreshadowing the upheaval to come: America has officially entered its version of the Weimar Era

January 16, 2021 | Syndicated |
Mike Pence and Evangelicals: How a sycophantic loyalty tarnished faith in Christianity

January 16, 2021 | Syndicated |
America only cares about its Democracy: A few stories of other democracies overthrown by the United States

January 15, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Criminal Sedition at the Capitol: How news sources frame unrest in realtime and influence public opinion

January 15, 2021 | Syndicated |
A second-rate insurrection: Insiders who colluded to overthrow our Democracy have blood on their hands

January 15, 2021 | Syndicated |
Confederate Ideology: Why Wisconsin Republicans are following Trump’s contempt for the rule of law

January 14, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
A clear and present danger: Would-be dictator impeached just days after Inciting Insurrection

January 14, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
How Wisconsin’s elected representatives explained their votes in the Second Impeachment of Trump

January 14, 2021 | Syndicated |
White Victimhood: What weeds will continue to grow from the ground Trump fertilized?

January 14, 2021 | Syndicated |
Years of ignoring the growing danger of rightwing radicals has finally caught up with America

January 13, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Governor Tony Evers delivers a virtual 2021 State of the State Address due to ongoing pandemic

January 13, 2021 | Curated |
Trump’s Internet is celebrating: This is what White Supremacy looks like

January 13, 2021 | Syndicated |
Extreme Anti-Semitism: The shocking symbols that Trump’s disciples used to celebrate their hate

January 13, 2021 | Syndicated |
My Hope for America in 2021: Moving beyond Equality and Equity to Justice

January 12, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Wisconsin National Guard sent to support Capitol police against planned insurrection in Madison

January 12, 2021 | Curated |
A long road to normal: Governor Tony Evers reflects on the turbulent past year and what 2021 could bring

January 12, 2021 | Syndicated |
Re-enactment of a Lost Cause: Why Confederate mythology lives on in hearts of White supremacists

January 12, 2021 | Syndicated |
Pardeep Kaleka: Engaging in “Artistic Absence” means that simply cutting off toxic people is not enough

January 11, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Pardeep Kaleka |
Privileged Behavior: Mental illness is not why Trump became emotionally untethered from humanity

January 11, 2021 | John Pavlovitz |
Accountability for an Attempted Coup: The culpability of Trump and his GOP allies is beyond dispute

January 11, 2021 | Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 010921

January 11, 2021 | Podcasts, Sound |
White-on-White Crime: When White people attack their own government

January 10, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Tragically Predictable: The coup by Trump’s Cult was not unexpected

January 10, 2021 | John Pavlovitz |
Wisconsin civil rights organizations jointly condemn Trump’s act of domestic terrorism at the U.S. Capitol

January 10, 2021 | Curated |
Why police brutalized peaceful George Floyd activists and accommodated violent White Supremacists

January 10, 2021 | Syndicated |
Ku Klux Coup: America’s culture of White mob violence

January 10, 2021 | Syndicated |
Who Counts and When: On Women’s Suffrage, Census, and incremental steps towards citizenship and Civil Rights

January 9, 2021 | Articles |
Complicit or Incompetent: Capitol Police face fierce criticism over security breach by MAGA insurgents

January 9, 2021 | Syndicated |
Murder the Media: Journalists targeted again as “the enemy of the people” by Pro-Trump Insurrectionists

January 9, 2021 | Syndicated |
Details emerge how Trump incited mob to lynch Vice President Mike Pence for not overturning election

January 9, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
A risk of inciting violence: Twitter silences Trump with a permanent suspension

January 9, 2021 | Curated |
Julia Papillon: On following an immigrant bloodline of role models in the pursuit of happiness

January 8, 2021 | Featured, Profiles |
Books of Color: Identifying entrenched racial stereotypes in children’s books

January 8, 2021 | Syndicated |
A history of medical experimentation has conditioned Blacks to distrust the COVID-19 vaccine

January 8, 2021 | Syndicated |
A Day of Infamy: How Trumpublicans baked a cake of lies that fed the armed assault on Congress

January 7, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Act of insurrection: Nation’s capital desecrated by criminals fighting for Trump to overturn rule of law

January 7, 2021 | Heather Richardson |
Democracy Prevails: Congress certifies President-elect Joe Biden’s decisive 306-232 Electoral College win

January 7, 2021 | Syndicated |
President-elect Joe Biden denounces mob of MAGA fanatics for seditious attack on “citadel of liberty”

January 7, 2021 | Syndicated |
Elected officials from Madison to Milwaukee react to failed rebellion by Republican extremists

January 7, 2021 | Curated |
U.S. Capitol police were caught off-guard even though domestic terrorists had made violent intentions clear

January 7, 2021 | Syndicated |
Demands for accountability: Condemnation of Trump grows after inciting a coup to overthrow democracy

January 7, 2021 | Syndicated |
9/11 and now 01/06: National soul is shaken by new act of terror on American soil by White Supremacists

January 7, 2021 | Syndicated |
Out of Office: A historical lesson for why Trump should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law

January 7, 2021 | Syndicated |
Breaking News: Domestic terrorists violently storm nation’s capitol in Trump-influenced coup attempt

January 6, 2021 | Syndicated |
A broken record of injustice: Why no charges in Jacob Blake case just emboldens a police culture of abuse

January 6, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Kenosha District Attorney refuses to file criminal charges against police officer who shot Jacob Blake

January 6, 2021 | Syndicated |
Trump v. Pence: How the law actually prevents rogue Senators from overturning Electoral College results

January 6, 2021 | Syndicated |
Recording of another “perfect” phone call details presidential effort to overthrow democracy

January 5, 2021 | Featured, Heather Richardson |
The Secession Caucus: Trump loyalists have abandoned the Party of Lincoln to form a new Confederacy

January 5, 2021 | Syndicated |
The 51st State: Puerto Rico’s statehood depends on which political party will control the U.S. Senate

January 5, 2021 | Syndicated |
Systemic Racism 301: Denying that Systematic Racism is real does not change the truth of its existence

January 4, 2021 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
A Gospel of Slavery: Christian Nationalism seeks to punish the poor by legislating White Supremacy

January 4, 2021 | Syndicated |
Black Love Matters: The reality gap for Black men between family life and the image shown on TV

January 4, 2021 | Syndicated |
Pharmacist with Aurora Health in Grafton arrested for deliberately destroying coronavirus vaccines

January 3, 2021 | COVID-19, Curated |
Tweeting by the rules: Twitter will stop giving Trump preferential treatment after he leaves office

January 3, 2021 | Syndicated |
Pure hate finds a home: How Parler became the social media platform for millions of Trump supporters

January 3, 2021 | Syndicated |
Year In Preview 2021: Bring it on New Year, you can’t suck more than 2020 did!

January 2, 2021 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
A Pandemic Plunge for 2021: Looking back at past Polar Bear dips into a freezing Lake Michigan

January 2, 2021 | Articles |
The other viral infection: How to avoid catching a cold when its cold

January 2, 2021 | Syndicated |
Year In Review 2020: Having the courage to say “yes” in a year of “no”

January 1, 2021 | Articles, Featured, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: Understanding the history behind today’s politics

January 1, 2021 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: On faith, politics, and stuff that needs to be said

January 1, 2021 | Articles, Year In Review |

December

Year In Review 2020: Finding hope while others fall off a cliff

December 31, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: Jacob Blake and tragedy of Kenosha

December 31, 2020 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: Wauwatosa police and their brutalization of civilians

December 31, 2020 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: A deadly COVID-19 crisis and the country that ignored it

December 30, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: Stories from a witness on the frontline of tragedies

December 30, 2020 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: Some regular things that almost made life feel normal

December 30, 2020 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: On being Black in a world of White Supremacy

December 29, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: Peaceful protests for racial justice and equality

December 29, 2020 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: How Milwaukee reacted to the death of George Floyd

December 29, 2020 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: A pandemic that plagued a presidential election

December 28, 2020 | Articles, Featured, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: The Democratic National Convention sort of came to Milwaukee

December 28, 2020 | Articles, Year In Review |
Year In Review 2020: A lack of effort by self-serving Republicans to govern Wisconsin

December 28, 2020 | Articles, Year In Review |
Reggie Jackson: The major lesson I learned from 2020 is that racism continues to kill

December 27, 2020 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Domestic violence survivors say police have allowed brutality and racism to flourish

December 27, 2020 | Syndicated |
Mask mandates and mutual responsibility: What it means to exercise individual rights in the public arena

December 27, 2020 | Syndicated |
We Need Imagination: A glance at my 2020 bookshelf

December 26, 2020 | Columns, Dominic Inouye, Featured |
Milwaukee County awarded $40.9M Federal grant to move forward with East-West Bus Rapid Transit Project

December 26, 2020 | Articles |
Milwaukee to receive portion of $1M in WHEDA Foundation grants for low-income housing

December 26, 2020 | Articles |
Images of Christmas Past: Remembering Milwaukee’s holiday season before the nightmare present of COVID

December 25, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
The positive power of ritual: Why a Christmas celebration is good for mental health

December 25, 2020 | Syndicated |
Wisconsin Health Department warns about illness risk from eating traditional raw meat holiday treat

December 25, 2020 | Syndicated |
Dear Mr. President-Elect: A wishlist for Joe Biden from Milwaukee’s Black community

December 24, 2020 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
GOP lawmakers seek authoritarian power grab under disguise of COVID-19 aid while pandemic ravages state

December 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
The Coming Economic Crash: Trumpublicans seek to replace democracy with fascism to stay in power

December 24, 2020 | Syndicated |
Contributions to the 13th Annual Holiday Drive are helping Milwaukee families at local homeless shelters

December 23, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Blue Ribbon Commission issues recommendations to ensure prosperity for Wisconsin’s rural communities

December 23, 2020 | Curated |
An aversion to Christmas chaos: Why the first American settlers forbid Yuletide festivities

December 23, 2020 | Syndicated |
A brutal concentration of wealth: How nonprofits perpetuate the dysfunctions of Capitalism

December 22, 2020 | Featured, Syndicated |
Free Markets and Liberty: Many terms used to describe Capitalism as an economic system are incorrect

December 22, 2020 | Syndicated |
An opposition to violent supremacy: The varied and decentralized nature of a collective self-defense

December 22, 2020 | Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 121920

December 22, 2020 | Podcasts, Sound |
Shirley Abrahamson: First female Chief Justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court dies of pancreatic cancer

December 21, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Press freedoms in peril: Report details unprecedented attacks in 2020 on journalists in America

December 21, 2020 | Syndicated |
Before the penny papers: How Substack offers an alternative to advertising subsidized journalism

December 21, 2020 | Syndicated |
Local News Deserts: How COVID-19 has ravaged American journalism

December 21, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Common Council rejects COPS grant: Not just about 30 police officers but long-term commitments to change

December 20, 2020 | Articles |
The Madison Method: Former police chief suggests alternative to military tactics and escalation

December 20, 2020 | Syndicated |
Police training guide that condemns BLM movement while promoting White Supremacy stirs outrage

December 20, 2020 | Curated |
U.S. Marshals provided covert help to Wauwatosa’s secretive police unit during controversial curfew

December 20, 2020 | Syndicated |
Claire Woodall-Vogg: On protecting the 2020 election from a pandemic and efforts to suppress Black votes

December 19, 2020 | Syndicated |
How Freedom defeated America: We lost an entire year from COVID due to phony patriotism and cheap liberty

December 19, 2020 | COVID-19, John Pavlovitz |
Federal court dismisses Trump Campaign’s SLAPP lawsuit against Wisconsin TV station

December 19, 2020 | Syndicated |
A different kind of political comeback: Dream of a Trump 2024 looms as a national nightmare

December 19, 2020 | Syndicated |
A Limp Penis: Men may take the pandemic seriously now that COVID-19 has been linked to erectile dysfunction

December 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Curated, Featured |
A system broken by design: How to close the racial health gap for communities affected by COVID-19

December 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
A Stress Pandemic: Research done over a quarter century finds racial discrimination ages Blacks faster

December 18, 2020 | Syndicated |
300,000 Dead: Loss of American lives reaches staggering record as coronavirus vaccine begins distribution

December 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Cream City Hostel plans transformation into first cooperative housing for Milwaukee residents

December 17, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Why a return to “normal” would be disastrous for America, normal gave us Trump

December 17, 2020 | Syndicated |
Biden’s Olive Branch: Building a post-White America or placating White supremacists

December 17, 2020 | Syndicated |
Redrawing the boundaries: Results of the 2020 Census will bring new electoral district maps

December 17, 2020 | Syndicated |
A White Utopia: How a segregated Milwaukee created the arrogance of suburbia

December 16, 2020 | Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Voodoo Economics: From offering sweeping tax breaks for the rich to drastic cuts in public spending

December 16, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
A feudal financial state: How the economy was engineered to crush everyone while enriching a few

December 16, 2020 | Syndicated |
Khary Penebaker: On casting Wisconsin’s Electoral College votes for the first Black female Vice President

December 16, 2020 | Syndicated |
John Ridley’s new DC comic book superhero will feature Tim Fox character as first Black Batman

December 15, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Wisconsin joins Electoral College in casting votes for Joe Biden to finalize his win as next president

December 15, 2020 | Syndicated |
200th Day of Protests: County Supervisor Ryan Clancy applauds efforts by activists for social justice

December 15, 2020 | Curated |
Political polarization stirs fear in cities like Kenosha as Wisconsin’s majority population becomes less White

December 15, 2020 | Syndicated |
The shame of the GOP: A blind loyalty to Tyranny

December 14, 2020 | Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Victimization of the vulnerable: An American love of patriarchal violence at every level of society

December 14, 2020 | Syndicated |
Lame Duck President: The clock is ticking on how much damage Trump can still do before leaving office

December 14, 2020 | Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 121120

December 14, 2020 | Podcasts, Sound |
An Attack on Black voters: Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge says Trump’s election lawsuit “smacks of Racism”

December 13, 2020 | Syndicated |
The Foxconn factory that fizzled: Officials waged a dirty war to demolish the homes of their constituents

December 13, 2020 | Syndicated |
Audit finds Foxconn could get tax credits for work done outside Wisconsin while in breach of contract

December 13, 2020 | Syndicated |
Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing identifies pilot who died in Michigan F-16 crash

December 12, 2020 | Articles |
GOP lawmakers hold sham hearings to invalidate Wisconsin votes but do nothing to ease pandemic pain

December 12, 2020 | Syndicated |
Wisconsin GOP official faces backlash after telling his party to stop trafficking in election conspiracies

December 12, 2020 | Syndicated |
The election is over: Supreme Court unanimously rejects Trumpublican attack on Joe Biden’s victory

December 12, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of the Affordable Care Act for millions of Wisconsinites

December 11, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
Wisconsin to offer more financial assistance for local restaurants impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic

December 11, 2020 | Articles |
Port Milwaukee to solidify its status as a hub for Great Lakes Cruising with new lease agreement

December 11, 2020 | Articles |
Republican act of Sedition: 17 states join Texas lawsuit to overturn Wisconsin’s legally certified election

December 11, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
Trump-nominated judge considers unprecedented Wisconsin lawsuit to invalidate state’s votes

December 11, 2020 | Syndicated |
Newly-approved Enterprise Zone allows Molson Coors to proceed with major expansion plans in Milwaukee

December 10, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Search for Wisconsin Air National Guard’s F-16 pilot continues after crash in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

December 10, 2020 | Articles |
Milwaukee celebrates a Human Rights Campaign Equality Index Score of 100% for third year in a row

December 10, 2020 | Articles |
Coronavirus skeptics and their denial of any danger has helped kill a thousand Wisconsinites in 21 days

December 9, 2020 | COVID-19, Featured, Syndicated |
Wisconsin Legislators continue to ignore requests by municipal clerks for how to process absentee ballots

December 9, 2020 | Syndicated |
State of Texas sues Wisconsin as publicity stunt to aid Trump’s attempted coup to remain in power

December 9, 2020 | Syndicated |
At the movies: Milwaukee Film Festival shifts its 2021 all-virtual celebration of cinema to May

December 8, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Financial relief now available to Milwaukee County artists and cultural organizations impacted by COVID

December 8, 2020 | Articles |
Life in The Matrix: How social media’s promise to connect people instead left us isolated and tribal

December 8, 2020 | Syndicated |
The challenge of healing a nation that insists on remaining wounded

December 7, 2020 | Featured, Syndicated |
Shining a light on an unseen AAPI Heritage: How Asian Americans use civic participation to increase visibility

December 7, 2020 | Syndicated |
Outside in the Cold: Milwaukee’s homeless shelters expect a harsher winter due to pandemic and evictions

December 7, 2020 | Syndicated |
Keeping Vets Safe: Wisconsin Veterans Homes face renewed health threat from the coronavirus

December 6, 2020 | Syndicated |
Always Money for War: Congress at odds over COVID relief but approves Pentagon’s staggering budget

December 6, 2020 | Syndicated |
Trump’s Failed Coup: American democracy survived a tyrant but may not be so lucky next time

December 6, 2020 | Syndicated |
A Modern Great Depression: We are in one of the most profound crises of American history

December 5, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
A More Perfect Union: How “We the People” can take back our country

December 5, 2020 | Syndicated |
Judge orders Trump Administration to restore DACA as it existed under Obama and reopen Dreamers program

December 5, 2020 | Syndicated |
At the End of the World, Turn Left: A coming of age novel about immigrants searching for their identity in Riverwest

December 4, 2020 | Columns, Editorial, Featured |
Between the Pages: Influencing the perception of Milwaukee through works of fiction

December 4, 2020 | Articles |
Research shows that undocumented immigrants may actually make American communities more safe

December 4, 2020 | Syndicated |
We’re really not great: ‪The deaths of 250,000 Americans didn’t matter to 70 million Americans

December 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Featured, John Pavlovitz |
Wisconsin Republicans rebuked for using a racist Jim Crow strategy for mass disenfranchisement of voters

December 3, 2020 | Syndicated |
Governor Tony Evers condemns Trump’s lawsuit of Wisconsin’s election as an assault on democracy

December 3, 2020 | Curated |
Wisconsin’s legislature unwilling to act as record-setting death toll overwhelms COVID-19 medical units

December 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Featured, Syndicated |
No Sick Leave: Why health care aides in nursing homes are forced to work after exposure to COVID-19

December 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Morality and COVID-19: Why some individuals continue to ignore rules about wearing face masks

December 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Reimagined Pabst Brewery to permanently close and move operations out of Milwaukee for a second time

December 2, 2020 | Articles |
MCTS creates Rosa Parks scholarship as part of 5th annual tribute to her resistance of bus segregation

December 1, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE, Featured |
Nate Hamilton: On becoming the kind of leader his parents taught him to be

December 1, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Ruby Bridges: The school that once symbolized desegregation now reflects a public education battle

December 1, 2020 | Syndicated |
Governor Tony Evers signs certificate declaring Joe Biden winner of the state’s 10 Electoral College votes

December 1, 2020 | Curated |

November

Art as War: Bringing attention to the class struggle through creative activism

November 30, 2020 | Columns, Dominic Inouye, Featured |
Milwaukee Film offers COVID-19 relief for local film industry and financial awards to Festival winners

November 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Curated |
Milwaukee parents to get more educational assistance after Common Council approves funding measure

November 30, 2020 | Articles |
Trump’s $3M Wisconsin recount ends with 87 vote gain for Biden and promise of further unfounded lawsuits

November 30, 2020 | Curated |
Wisconsin faith leaders say that “loving your neighbor” means complying with COVID-19 safeguards

November 29, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Death Threats over a football Game: Green Bay Packers fans bring shame to beloved sport over a fumbled play

November 29, 2020 | Syndicated |
Attorney General Josh Kaul sues Wisconsin Legislature over unconstitutional lame duck constraints

November 29, 2020 | Syndicated |
County recount concludes: Trump blew $3 million dollars to give Biden 132 more votes in Milwaukee

November 29, 2020 | Syndicated |
False pandemic data on social media complicates Wisconsin’s effort to halt spread of COVID-19

November 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Buying a Dream: How the economy became overly dependent on consumerism prior to COVID-19

November 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Not Under Control: In less than 30 Days Wisconsin has experienced 1,000 deaths from COVID-19

November 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Reggie Jackson: Documentation of my ancestors who were bequeathed in the will of our enslaver

November 27, 2020 | Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Federal segregation policies from the early 20th century damaged Black communities for decades

November 27, 2020 | Syndicated |
GOP lawsuit asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to discard election results in favor of decision by Legislature

November 27, 2020 | Syndicated |
The family we no longer recognize: Confronting the results of becoming who we were taught to become

November 26, 2020 | Featured, John Pavlovitz |
Feeding the Hungry: Wisconsin food pantries view the holidays as just another day in a busy year

November 26, 2020 | Syndicated |
Thanksgiving was established to celebrate the survival of our democratic government

November 26, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
Only two municipalities remain: Recount of Milwaukee County votes finally back on schedule

November 26, 2020 | Articles |
Silence of the Self-Righteous: When will White people take “Personal Responsibility” in the Age of COVID?

November 25, 2020 | Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Loyalty is a two-way street: Black voters in Wisconsin plan to remind Democrats about election promises

November 25, 2020 | Syndicated |
Anatomy of a disaster: Jobless families struggles without aid as Wisconsin Legislators deflect blame

November 25, 2020 | Syndicated |
Lost Jobs: Unemployment rate in Wisconsin increases for first time since April nearing 6 percent

November 25, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
City of Milwaukee welcomes holiday season with 107th Christmas Tree lighting

November 24, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Milwaukee’s election recount proceeds smoothly but Trump campaign continues voter suppression tactics

November 24, 2020 | Photos |
Trump caves in to reality as GSA declares Joe Biden the “apparent winner” to start presidential transition

November 24, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
Myth of the monolithic Latino Vote: Pollsters failed to anticipate diverse views based on national origins

November 24, 2020 | Syndicated |
Ballot recounting finally moves forward on third day as Trump campaign seeks private voter data

November 23, 2020 | Featured, Photos |
Trump targets Democratic strongholds in Wisconsin to toss out 170,000 in-person absentee ballots

November 23, 2020 | Syndicated |
What we choose to say goodbye to this year will define our national identity for generations

November 23, 2020 | John Pavlovitz |
Flight Risk: GOP donors help Kyle Rittenhouse get out of Kenosha jail after funding $2M bail

November 23, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Milwaukee recount stumbles ahead as Trump campaign acts in bad faith by trying to reject every ballot

November 22, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Milwaukee residents encouraged to utilize all public options available for COVID-19 testing

November 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Curated |
Wisconsin declares a new public health emergency until 2021 due overwhelming surge of COVID-19 cases

November 22, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19 |
Families look for new ways to celebrate a holiday after CDC warns against Thanksgiving travel

November 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Trump lawyers derail start of Milwaukee’s recount while his campaign observers intimidate poll workers

November 21, 2020 | Featured, Photos |
Partisan Tension: Why Wisconsin’s 2020 recount is so different from the harmonious process of 2016

November 21, 2020 | Syndicated |
Truth Decay: Trump continues to subvert Biden’s win by leveraging the power of his office

November 21, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
Mass Shooting at Mayfair Mall: Wauwatosa police search for White gunman who wounded 8 people

November 21, 2020 | Curated |
Shattering Glass: Kamala Harris is paving the way for all types of women to reach their dreams

November 20, 2020 | Columns, Editorial, Featured |
Hands that once picked cotton: Remembering the many Black women who aimed for the White House

November 20, 2020 | Syndicated |
Standing-Up for Democracy: Blacks in Milwaukee pushed past institutional obstacles to cast their vote

November 20, 2020 | Syndicated |
Snowcially-Distanced: Milwaukee Holiday Lights Festival goes virtual in adjustment to pandemic

November 19, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
Milwaukee-based episodic audio series earns distinction as Adweek’s Marketing Podcast of the Year

November 19, 2020 | Curated |
Wisconsin to extend mask mandate into 2021 due to escalating public health emergency from pandemic

November 19, 2020 | Syndicated |
Documenting History in Images: A photojournalist’s journey to remain safe in the Age of COVID-19

November 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Editorial, Featured |
Gambling with Death: Pseudo-scientific theory of herd immunity through COVID-19 infection is dangerous

November 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Recount of Wisconsin’s presidential election would cost almost $8M and not significantly alter results

November 18, 2020 | Syndicated |
Joseph Mensah: Officer who killed Alvin Cole will resign from Wauwatosa police force on November 30

November 18, 2020 | BLM MKE, Curated |
Up Close (but not too close): John McGivern’s socially-distanced holiday shows postponed until 2021

November 17, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
“Raise the Curtain” campaign encourages Milwaukee patrons to create a legacy in support of the arts

November 17, 2020 | Curated |
Trump operatives drop political “SLAPP” lawsuit targeting Wisconsin ballots just before court hearing

November 17, 2020 | Syndicated |
Milwaukee County leaders sign 2021 budget with emphasis on racial equality and improving health

November 16, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Financial program launches to help Milwaukee residents with pandemic-related economic challenges

November 16, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19 |
Milwaukee tax-payers could owe Sylville Smith’s family a $4M settlement over his death by city police

November 16, 2020 | Syndicated |
Serb Hall rally turns violent as Pro-Trump supporters ignore city’s health order and assault manager

November 15, 2020 | Curated |
How a selfish ideology has defined one political party as traitors to the Constitution and humanity

November 15, 2020 | Syndicated |
Unprecedented legal scheme seeks to disqualify all Wisconsin votes for Joe Biden from three urban areas

November 15, 2020 | Syndicated |
Billionaire megadoners who fought Wisconsin’s plans to contain pandemic get infected at White House

November 15, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Squattergate: Refusal to concede the election is just another fundraising scam by top political grifters

November 15, 2020 | Syndicated |
Lakefront icon in jeopardy: S/V Denis Sullivan’s sailing days could be over without maintenance

November 14, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
Rural Wisconsin schools succumb to the impact of their community’s mishandling of COVID-19

November 14, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
America’s failed pandemic response will reverberate across health care and politics for years

November 14, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
The concept of Whiteness: Understanding the role and shared responsibilities of fighting racism

November 13, 2020 | Editorial, Featured |
Wauwatosa leadership accused of racism insist that racism does not exist in their community

November 13, 2020 | Syndicated |
Garrity v. New Jersey: The 1967 Supreme Court decision linking Rodney King’s trial to probe of Joseph Mensah

November 13, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Governor Tony Evers asks Wisconsin residents to stay home and work together to stop spread of COVID-19

November 12, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
State Republicans attempt to smear Wisconsin’s fair election by amplifying unfounded claims on results

November 12, 2020 | Articles |
Calling Races: The necessary role of the news media to project the outcome of elections in the United States

November 12, 2020 | Syndicated |
Dictatorship over Democracy: Concerns grow over Trump staging a coup as he refuses to concede election loss

November 12, 2020 | Syndicated |
Dontre Hamilton Park: New proposal could end opposition to renaming Red Arrow Park

November 11, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE, Featured |
Data-Mining during protests: Wisconsin courts consider legality of “trickle down surveillance”

November 11, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Jim Crow and World War I: How racism compounded the grief of Black families who lost sons in battle

November 11, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Beyond Veterans Day: How the public can honor retired members of the military on the other 364 days

November 11, 2020 | Syndicated |
Life without Trump: The problems faced by Blacks will not go away after Inauguration Day

November 10, 2020 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Not a two-way street: The overwhelming burden of seeking unity with hateful people

November 10, 2020 | John Pavlovitz |
Rightwing Violence: White Supremacist groups found behind most of this year’s domestic terror attacks

November 10, 2020 | Syndicated |
Systemic Racism 201: The advantages Whites have felt entitled to for generations

November 9, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
The Rot Runs Deep: A new president will not be enough to repair the Greatest Democracy

November 9, 2020 | Syndicated |
Presidents and Black America: Chief Executives have a long history of outright racism

November 9, 2020 | Syndicated |
Ridin’ with Biden: Milwaukee voters celebrate election victory with car rally across city

November 8, 2020 | Featured, Photos |
Joe Biden claims mandate to unify a shattered America after winning 2020 presidential election

November 8, 2020 | Syndicated |
The long national nightmare is over as voters overwhelmingly tell Trump: You’re Fired

November 8, 2020 | Syndicated |
Kicking and Screaming: How much more pain is Trump willing to inflict on the nation before leaving office?

November 8, 2020 | John Pavlovitz |
Author of Wisconsin’s gerrymandered voting system demands election fraud investigation without proof

November 8, 2020 | Curated |
Hatred Dies Hard: Everything we were taught to believe about America has been proven wrong

November 7, 2020 | John Pavlovitz |
Wisconsin Votes: An unsatisfying result after the worst presidency in American history

November 7, 2020 | Syndicated |
Election 2020: Understanding the Wisconsin recount process and its purpose

November 7, 2020 | Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 110620

November 7, 2020 | Podcasts, Sound |
Inside the restoration of Old Main: From Civil War Era care facility to a new home for Milwaukee veterans

November 6, 2020 | Featured, Photos |
Staying Together: The next challenge for America is to remain United

November 6, 2020 | Syndicated |
Hanging Chads: The national drama and trauma that followed contested elections from 1876 to 2000

November 6, 2020 | Syndicated |
Election Lies: Trump becomes more untethered from reality in his latest attack on democracy

November 6, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
COVID COVID COVID and the humiliating failure of America’s latest metaphoric war

November 5, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
Joe Biden wins Wisconsin by about 21,000 votes thanks to early morning ballot results from Milwaukee

November 5, 2020 | Syndicated |
The gruesome truth of who we are: Half of America willingly voted to keep a monster in power

November 5, 2020 | Syndicated |
Good vs. Evil: The unsettling discovery that you have been on the wrong side of history all along

November 5, 2020 | Syndicated |
Tabulating the Results: An inside look at the official process to count Milwaukee votes on Election Day

November 4, 2020 | Featured, Photos |
A Sleepless Night: Milwaukee sees massive voter participation in 2020 election

November 4, 2020 | Curated |
How the Far-Right will continue to threaten the well-being of Americans long after the election

November 4, 2020 | Syndicated |
The one absolute certainty this election season is that the presidential term ends at noon on January 20

November 4, 2020 | Syndicated |
Someone has to lose: Can a nation of hate swallow the notion of hope?

November 4, 2020 | Syndicated |
How Hope Topples Hate: Courage and resilience during dangerous and uncertain times

November 3, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
A History of Mob Rule: How the presidential election could be decided in the streets

November 3, 2020 | Syndicated |
Kidnapped voters and self-printed ballots are why there are laws regulating behavior at polling places

November 3, 2020 | Syndicated |
Suppression, purges, and the obstacles erected after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965

November 3, 2020 | Syndicated |
Keep Calm: Counting every vote amid a pandemic is going to take time

November 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Curated |
The hypocrisy of how “Facebook Police” enforce community standards

November 2, 2020 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
The White Right: Facebook has become the platform of choice for domestic terrorists

November 2, 2020 | Syndicated |
The 1920 Election Day Massacre: Remembering the voters of Ocoee who were slaughtered for being Black

November 2, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Democracy is Rising: On being excited about the future as the past four years of chaos comes to an end

November 2, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
A Day of Reckoning: November 3 is the most important Tuesday in our lifetime

November 2, 2020 | John Pavlovitz |
America talks about immigrants pulling themselves up by the bootstraps, yet we didn’t even get boots

November 1, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
How the message of “law and order” relies on a historic tradition of American racism

November 1, 2020 | Syndicated |
Citizen Outlaws: Far-Right paramilitary groups hide behind the guise of heroic vigilantism

November 1, 2020 | Syndicated |
False Profits: Why farmers despise socialism but depend on taxpayer funded government handouts

November 1, 2020 | Syndicated |
Stanford study details how Trump is killing Americans by spreading COVID-19 at his campaign rallies

November 1, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |

October

Democracy at Work: Milwaukee restaurants offer free food near polling sites to comfort waiting voters

October 31, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Joe Biden makes last campaign stop in Milwaukee before election with vow to bring Americans together

October 31, 2020 | Curated |
Republican schemes to rig Wisconsin’s election system has stirred partisan gridlock and voter frustration

October 31, 2020 | Syndicated |
Kyle Rittenhouse delivered to Kenosha authorities after Illinois judge approves his extradition

October 31, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Daylight Savings vs. Standard: Advocates push for a universal time but remain divided over which to adopt

October 31, 2020 | Syndicated |
A Colonial Society: When Racism is the Pre-existing Condition

October 30, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
The politics of truth: How fragmented communities are haunted by fear and suspicion

October 30, 2020 | Syndicated |
Saying the quiet part out loud: Calling lies “alternative facts” incorrectly labels racist rhetoric

October 30, 2020 | Syndicated |
Fear of an election loss: Speaker Robin Vos admits GOP’s inaction on COVID-19 has been a failed response

October 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Foxconn’s nearly abandoned manufacturing plant seen as political project for influencing election

October 29, 2020 | Featured, Syndicated |
Wisconsin taxpayers on the hook for infrastructure costs if Foxconn reneges on its obligations to Racine

October 29, 2020 | Syndicated |
How the Wisconsin GOP systematically transformed the election system into a Jim Crow-style institution

October 29, 2020 | Syndicated |
Each empty chair has a story: Memorial honors Milwaukee’s 600 victims of the COVID-19 pandemic

October 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Featured, Photos |
Families left to grieve: How politics destroyed lives and keeps Wisconsin’s pandemic response paralyzed

October 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Resentment in rural communities over COVID-19 shutdowns collides with escalating infection rates

October 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
The Milwaukee Flyers: Up in the air but still soaring

October 27, 2020 | Columns, Dominic Inouye, Featured |
Night Lights: Hoan Bridge officially begins illumination along the lakefront every evening

October 27, 2020 | Articles |
More than one million in-person and mailed ballots received by second day of Wisconsin’s early voting

October 27, 2020 | Curated |
Stupid is as stupid does: The Uncommon Nature of Common Sense

October 26, 2020 | Columns, COVID-19, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Controversial “thin blue line” flag replaces America’s “Stars and Stripes” at Trump rally in Waukesha

October 26, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Trump pushes COVID-19 conspiracies at Waukesha “Superspreader” event as Wisconsin sees deadliest week

October 26, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Community advocates decry efforts by Wauwatosa leaders to rewrite accounts of police brutality

October 25, 2020 | BLM MKE, Curated |
A Sundown Town: Wauwatosa Justice Rally highlights violent role of law enforcement in protests

October 25, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Reinforcing racial oppression: The lasting trauma Black families face after police encounters

October 25, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Refusing terms of concession: When it is not possible to “agree to disagree” because one view is not valid

October 24, 2020 | John Pavlovitz |
The hypocrisy of rejecting mask mandates but insisting on federal involvement in female reproduction

October 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Wide Awakes: How a Lincoln-era youth movement to safeguard democracy inspired anti-Trump protests

October 24, 2020 | Syndicated |
A Milwaukee Lynching: Activists to install headstone at unmarked grave of George Marshall Clark

October 23, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE, Featured |
A History of Racism: Understanding how White Americans used lynchings to control Black people

October 23, 2020 | Syndicated |
American Rage: Political anger boosts election campaigns but sabotages democracy

October 23, 2020 | Syndicated |
Stop-and-Frisk Continues: Reports says Milwaukee Police have not complied with lawsuit settlement

October 22, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE, Featured |
Republican’s “ballot security” has historically relied on armed poll watchers and white vigilantism

October 22, 2020 | Syndicated |
Senator Ron Jonson under fire for pushing tax changes that enriched himself and family interests

October 22, 2020 | Syndicated |
Milwaukee voters line up amid an escalating pandemic to cast early in-person ballots

October 21, 2020 | COVID-19, Featured, Photos |
Community stakeholders hold voting rallies to “Light Up” Milwaukee and cause “Good Trouble”

October 21, 2020 | Articles |
The boast of “greatest economy” continues to unravel as Wisconsin suffers from massive job losses

October 21, 2020 | Syndicated |
Voting is Power: Milwaukee’s Latinx community installs “Black and Brown Lives Matter” Street Mural

October 20, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Wisconsin voters can “pre-bunk” election falsehoods by knowing what hoaxes and propaganda to expect

October 20, 2020 | Syndicated |
November is Coming: How people who choose to embrace democracy can stop Trump’s election coup

October 20, 2020 | Syndicated |
Voting Rights Are Human Rights: A look at how Shepard Fairey installed Milwaukee’s new social justice mural

October 19, 2020 | Featured, Photos |
Votes Count in the 414: Fact-based campaign created to inform Milwaukee residents about election process

October 19, 2020 | Curated |
Knowing Who Won: The formalities of declaring the 2020 presidential election

October 19, 2020 | Syndicated |
Briggs & Stratton’s Greed: How corporate executives plundered millions in bonuses before going bankrupt

October 18, 2020 | Syndicated |
Quarantine Envy: It took a pandemic to wake people up to the systematic inequalities of life in America

October 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Wisconsin suffers worst COVID-19 outbreak in America due to state Republican’s political machinations

October 18, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Pandemic uncertainty contributing to a spike in Wisconsin’s already climbing suicide rate

October 17, 2020 | COVID-19, Featured, Syndicated |
Everybody’s Racist: Deprogramming the bias teaching and negative stereotypes rooted in White society

October 17, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Conditioned to Fear: How Whites can overcome the generations of hate that they have been taught

October 17, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
The danger of denial: Ignoring domestic terrorism and the propaganda that blinds us to its threat

October 16, 2020 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Gateway to Radicalization: Wisconsin cultivates extremism with ties to Michigan insurrection group

October 16, 2020 | Syndicated |
Citizen-led commission launches community-based program to implement police reform in Milwaukee

October 16, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Milwaukee Housing and Health: Families get temporary relief from the CDC’s eviction moratorium

October 15, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Wisconsin offers more financial support to stabilize businesses and families affected by COVID-19

October 15, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19 |
Miller Park site to take over as centralized hub for COVID-19 testing in Milwaukee

October 15, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19 |
Shorewood residents worry that proposed Atwater Beach fee could restrict recreational access

October 14, 2020 | Columns, Featured, Kenneth Cole |
Wauwatosa’s curfew ends but new video shows “out of control” violence by law enforcement continues

October 14, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE |
Rise of vehicular-based terror attacks on peaceful protesters marks new trend in America’s civil unrest

October 14, 2020 | Syndicated |
A message to the Democratic Party: Black people will not be the scapegoat if you lose Wisconsin again

October 13, 2020 | 2020 DNC, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Post-election audits remain a vulnerability as Wisconsin secures its election infrastructure

October 13, 2020 | Syndicated |
A Broken Contract: Wisconsin refuses to pay Foxconn billions in tax subsidies unless it makes new deal

October 13, 2020 | Curated |
A Hard-Knock Life: Social apathy prevents Blacks from turning “lemons” into “lemonade”

October 12, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Principle-Policy Gap: How White Americans previously failed to support systemic change to end racism

October 12, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
State Fair Park activated as alternate care facility in response to record COVID-19 surges

October 12, 2020 | COVID-19, Curated |
Ignoring Jesus: The problem with the American distortion of Christianity

October 11, 2020 | John Pavlovitz |
What Christian sex advice websites reveal about evangelical sexual culture

October 11, 2020 | Syndicated |
“Playing Army” with deadly results: Federal lawsuit filed against Kyle Rittenhouse and Kenosha Militias

October 11, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Wauwatosa police retaliate against Cole family with violent attack that sends mother to hospital

October 10, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE, Featured |
Brutality by Design: Wauwatosa shows that curfew policy is intended to terrorize civilian population

October 10, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE |
Wisconsin DOJ concludes its investigation into Kenosha police shooting of Jacob Blake

October 10, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 100920

October 10, 2020 | Podcasts, Sound |
Courage, Integrity, and Honor: Milwaukee pays tribute to fallen firefighters at special memorial ceremony

October 9, 2020 | Featured, Photos |
Plan to integrate County departments aims to elevate care and services for older Milwaukee residents

October 9, 2020 | Articles |
MCTS creates new bus route connecting residents with jobs at Amazon Fulfillment Center in Oak Creek

October 9, 2020 | Articles |
Milwaukee Film releases lineup for its all-virtual 2020 festival featuring 197 titles

October 9, 2020 | Articles |
Reggie Jackson: I can’t find any common ground with racists

October 8, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
By Every Measure: Reggie Jackson and Tarik Moody explore systemic racism in podcast about Milwaukee

October 8, 2020 | Podcasts |
Family of Alvin Cole renew demand for justice after Wauwatosa Police Officer not charged over his death

October 8, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Lord of the Flies: Small insect generates big social media buzz from Vice Presidential debate

October 8, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
Counted but unheard: The paradox of the Black voter in Wisconsin

October 7, 2020 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Milwaukee’s Latino voters pick up Biden-Harris yard signs to declare their election day support

October 7, 2020 | Photos |
A wake-up call: Milwaukee activists warn Democrats not to take Black voters for granted

October 7, 2020 | Syndicated |
Milwaukee forced to abandon Fiserv Forum and Miller Park as additional in-person absentee voting sites

October 7, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19 |
Life after COVID-19: Milwaukee needs to develop a support system for coronavirus survivors

October 6, 2020 | Columns, COVID-19, Editorial, Featured |
Drinking the Kool-Aid: Trump echoes Jim Jones by declaring “Don’t Be Afraid of Covid”

October 6, 2020 | Columns, COVID-19, Reggie Jackson |
Coronavirus in Chief: A presidential drive-by and other desperate stunts that put lives at risk for theater

October 6, 2020 | COVID-19, Heather Richardson |
Beyond a political Thunderdome: Our feelings are being weaponized against us

October 5, 2020 | Columns, Featured, Pardeep Kaleka |
George Takei inspires gay men to reclaim #ProudBoys hashtag on Twitter with celebration of pride

October 5, 2020 | Curated |
Decency and Democracy: Responding to political sycophants who designate empathy as a disability

October 5, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Woodrow Wilson downplayed the 1918 pandemic then kept secret his affliction from influenza

October 5, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Free Tuition Program: Philanthropist Chris Abele donates another $500,000 to support “MATC Promise”

October 4, 2020 | Articles |
Dr. Igda Martinez: On why children of color are being hit hard by the coronavirus

October 4, 2020 | BLM MKE, COVID-19, Syndicated |
Milwaukee students bring their Black Lives Matter activism back to the classroom

October 4, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Wisconsin’s digital divergence: Rural students face educational dilemma of screens vs. classrooms

October 4, 2020 | Syndicated |
The suburban response to protesters masks a century of housing discrimination in Milwaukee

October 3, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Minority-owned homes remain undervalued despite laws that forbid using race to evaluate worth

October 3, 2020 | Syndicated |
Conspiracy Theories: Misinformation floods social media following Trump’s alleged COVID-19 diagnosis

October 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 100220

October 3, 2020 | Podcasts, Sound |
Wisconsin healthcare resources “feeling the strain” as COVID-19 crisis escalates due to severe cases

October 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Featured, Syndicated |
The Sick Man of Democracy: Trump tests positive for COVID-19 before attending planned Wisconsin rallies

October 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
In the Air: Why the spreading of coronavirus from aerosols remains a major health threat

October 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
A Fatal Fallout: Experts worry that the next phase of COVID-19 crisis may be most dangerous yet

October 2, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
A look at the demolition site where a horse chestnut grove designed by Dan Kiley stood for decades

October 1, 2020 | Featured, Photos |
The path from Jim Crow to Donald Trump and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

October 1, 2020 | Syndicated |
Legitimacy and peaceful transitions: The United States has a long history of contested elections

October 1, 2020 | Syndicated |

September

A hot mess inside a dumpster fire: Milwaukee’s Democratic supporters watch first presidential debate

September 30, 2020 | 2020 DNC, Featured, Photos |
A National Humiliation: Trump’s bullying tactics plunge debate into a train wreck

September 30, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
From racism to election integrity: Experts react to key issues from chaotic Trump and Biden debate

September 30, 2020 | 2020 DNC, Syndicated |
GOP leaders ignore health catastrophe as Wisconsin sees worst surge of COVID-19 since start of pandemic

September 30, 2020 | COVID-19, Curated |
A lack of enthusiasm: How Milwaukee’s Black voters could determine the national election

September 29, 2020 | Featured, Syndicated |
A Tax Cheat: The shadowy financial puzzles at the heart of a dishonest presidency

September 29, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
Trump Nation: The real “Suckers” and “Losers” are the Americans who voted for a charlatan

September 29, 2020 | Syndicated |
Thea Bowman Institute launches in Milwaukee to promote academic enrichment for Black women

September 28, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Alverno College to build campus greenhouse for providing students with hands-on learning experience

September 28, 2020 | Articles |
Wisconsin’s sports industry takes an economic hit due to a summer of coronavirus

September 28, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
“Bring It Home” campaign continues economic push to promote Milwaukee as a future business destination

September 27, 2020 | Curated |
African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin gets state grant for Milwaukee office renovation

September 27, 2020 | Articles |
Art lovers will remain unaware of Milwaukee’s Black artists until they make an effort to find them

September 27, 2020 | Syndicated |
Voice the Vote: Milwaukee nonprofits work to make voting more accessible for people of color

September 26, 2020 | Articles |
The many benefits of voting by mail are still subject to numerous logistical difficulties

September 26, 2020 | Syndicated |
Making ballots legitimate: The security features that protect mail-in votes from fraud

September 26, 2020 | Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 092520

September 26, 2020 | Podcasts |
Reggie Jackson: If talking about racism is political, then so be it

September 25, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Trump incites Civil War over his desire for dictatorship with no commitment to a peaceful transfer of power

September 25, 2020 | Syndicated |
Critics charge Senator Ron Johnson of betraying his stated 2016 principle to not vote on SCOTUS nominee

September 25, 2020 | Syndicated |
From Emmett Till to Breonna Taylor: America continues to sanction the murdering of Blacks

September 24, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Surge in youth related COVID-19 infections causes Wisconsin to extend statewide mask mandate

September 24, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19 |
Trump’s Pandemic: A modern-day American genocide that “affects virtually nobody“

September 24, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Wisconsin Election Commission ordered by court to improve procedures for safe voting in November

September 23, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
Milwaukee’s 2021 Budget: Economic hardships felt from COVID-19 and Wisconsin’s broken funding formula

September 23, 2020 | Articles |
Deshea Agee: Why the King Drive project is good for its neighbors

September 23, 2020 | Articles |
Until our voices go hoarse: Reflections on a summer of protest in Milwaukee

September 22, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Dominic Inouye, Featured |
Milwaukee County rolls out grant program aimed at helping minority small businesses hard hit by COVID-19

September 22, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19 |
Local food producers across Wisconsin work at adapting to changing demands driven by pandemic

September 22, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Civil Rights lawyer details how 1930s German rhetoric and dangerous policies are being used today

September 21, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Patriotic Education: Critics slam 1776 Commission as political ploy to whitewash American history

September 21, 2020 | Syndicated |
He knew. He lied. 200,000 people died.

September 21, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Hip-Hop Week MKE adapts to 2020 conditions with plan to stream educational summit on voter suppression

September 20, 2020 | 2020 DNC, Articles |
Painted hearts encourage residents to enjoy downtown parks while remaining socially distant

September 20, 2020 | Articles |
Marcus Center to enhance Uihlein Hall and expand performing arts programs via livestream technology

September 20, 2020 | Articles |
Daniel Thompson gets crowdfunding support after quitting over distorted Jacob Blake news headline

September 19, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE |
Kenosha to hold community listening sessions to develop action steps for moving the city forward

September 19, 2020 | BLM MKE, Curated |
One boy lives, one boy dies: Why America values White killers over Black victims

September 19, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
A Champion of Gender Equality: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87 from cancer

September 19, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
Helping Wisconsin Vote: TV host Stephen Colbert launches nonpartisan #BetterKnowABallot initiative

September 18, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Souls to the Polls: COVID-19 survivor Greg Lewis leads ministry group to stop voter suppression

September 18, 2020 | Syndicated |
Exporting Kenosha’s Violence: Presidential embrace of armed insurgents elevates vigilante fears for election

September 18, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Troops and air support from Wisconsin National Guard deployed to help fight California’s wildfires

September 17, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
COVID-19 outbreak at Marquette University sends students into shopping panic over quarantine

September 17, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
A lasting anxiety about COVID-19: Medical trends indicate that older coronavirus survivors face PTSD

September 17, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Reggie Jackson: Explaining about the persistence of racism in America

September 16, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
New home for the Milwaukee Public Museum to be located in downtown’s Deer District area

September 16, 2020 | Articles |
No Serious Harm: New study confirms nearly all Black Lives Matter protests have been peaceful

September 16, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
From Portland to Kenosha: ACLU records law enforcement violence against peaceful protestors

September 15, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE, Featured |
An Illegal Curfew: Civil Rights group says Kenosha County Sheriff acted unlawfully

September 15, 2020 | BLM MKE, Curated |
Documents detail how White Supremacists have infiltrated police departments across America

September 15, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Milwaukee installs more 24-hour drop boxes for absentee ballots to ensure a safe November election

September 14, 2020 | Featured, Photos |
If countless Americans can give their lives to preserve our right to vote, we can take the time to do it

September 14, 2020 | John Pavlovitz |
As You Wish: Cast of “Princess Bride” reunite for virtual fundraiser to help Joe Biden win Wisconsin

September 14, 2020 | Articles |
Downtown Employee Appreciation Week kicks off with virtual and socially-distanced activities

September 14, 2020 | Articles |
A Theology of Ignorance: Christian opposition of science during a pandemic is a rebuke of God’s divinity

September 13, 2020 | COVID-19, John Pavlovitz |
Freedom of religion does not mean people are free from following mandates to wear masks

September 13, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Why Kenosha Happened: A powerful message from Rev. Dr. Lisa Bates-Froiland and Dayvin Hallmon

September 13, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE |
Milwaukee leaders hold virtual 9/11 remembrance on 19th anniversary amid staggering pandemic loss

September 12, 2020 | BLM MKE, COVID-19, Photos |
Wallpapered City: Three new murals by Wisconsin artists to be painted in Black Cat Alley

September 12, 2020 | Articles |
Designing Justice: Luba Lukova’s exploration of social equality through graphic art featured in new exhibit

September 12, 2020 | Curated |
The Exception to Exceptionalism: Why marginalized communities feel a collective guilt in America

September 11, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Patriot or Domestic Terrorist: Why Americans are unable to use some words to describe fellow citizens

September 11, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Editorial |
Death, Lies, and Audiotape: A deliberate political deception that has cost almost 200K Americans lives

September 11, 2020 | COVID-19, Heather Richardson |
Americans continue to fear foreign threats while ignoring homegrown extremists 19 years after 9/11

September 11, 2020 | Syndicated |
A Black Batman: John Ridley to write comic book series potentially featuring a Dark Knight of Color

September 10, 2020 | Articles, Featured |
Christian Cooper combines his birdwatching ordeal with BLM headlines in DC comic’s “Represent!”

September 10, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE |
Many Wisconsin renters have nowhere to go as evictions soar and emergency aid falls short

September 10, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Margot Gage Witvliet: On being a COVID-19 long-hauler and the frustration of not knowing

September 10, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Latest Kenosha Police shooting hits close to home for family of Michael Bell

September 9, 2020 | BLM MKE, Featured, Syndicated |
Trump staged photo op at destroyed camera shop after owner refused to participate

September 9, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Police and Militia tactics in Kenosha reflect an authoritarian prelude to a modern Civil War

September 9, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Federal agents in Kenosha: History shows militarized policing actually escalates violent conflicts

September 9, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
A threat to White truth: How the 1619 Project reignited America’s racial reckoning

September 8, 2020 | BLM MKE, Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
A sudden preoccupation with the suburbs to make White people afraid for the wrong reasons

September 8, 2020 | BLM MKE, John Pavlovitz |
Two sets of laws: Civil rights lawsuit claims Kenosha police made selective curfew arrests

September 8, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
The Republic for which it stands: What will being an American mean without Democracy?

September 8, 2020 | Heather Richardson |
Reprint of History: A report on the Ku Klux Klan in Wisconsin by Bugle-American

September 7, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE, Featured |
Remembering W.E.B. Du Bois: His views on apologists for Confederate Monuments and Robert E. Lee

September 7, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Life is precious: Jacob Blake makes first public statement in a video from his hospital bed

September 7, 2020 | BLM MKE, Curated |
Kenosha Militia leader claims police intended to herd protesters toward them on night of deadly shootings

September 7, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Fiserv Forum and Miller Park to serve as Early Voting Centers for the 2020 General Election

September 6, 2020 | Articles, COVID-19, Featured |
Wisconsin mails information about election participation to 2.6 million registered voters

September 6, 2020 | Articles |
Democratic National Committee puts support behind Wisconsin voting lawsuit on absentee ballots

September 6, 2020 | 2020 DNC, COVID-19, Syndicated |
Missing People: How an inaccurate census affected by COVID-19 will hurt communities of color

September 6, 2020 | Syndicated |
Zao MKE Church responds to police seizure of U-Haul containing its humanitarian aid to Kenosha

September 5, 2020 | BLM MKE, Curated |
Wisconsin veterans and leaders condemn Trump over reports he disparaged fallen soldiers

September 5, 2020 | Curated |
Kenosha-native and “Hulk” actor Mark Ruffalo joins with activists during Justice for Jacob celebration

September 5, 2020 | BLM MKE, Curated |
Militia extremists with illegal cache of weapons arrested on the way to “pick people off” in Kenosha

September 5, 2020 | BLM MKE, Curated |
Joe Biden visits privately with Jacob Blake’s family before offering a message of healing to Kenosha

September 4, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE, Featured |
Dominic Inouye: Saying YES in a summer of NO

September 4, 2020 | Columns, Dominic Inouye, Featured |
Local historians compile stories for new book that celebrates the Golden Age of Drag in Milwaukee

September 4, 2020 | Curated |
The economic impact of COVID-19 has been magnified by Trump’s intentional Postal Service delays

September 4, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 090320

September 4, 2020 | Podcasts |
Kristen Leer: COVID-19 and My Generation

September 3, 2020 | Columns, COVID-19, Editorial, Featured |
MaskUp with The Hop: New streetcar partnership provides free face coverings to keep Milwaukee safe

September 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Photos |
Democratic National Convention organizers donate office equipment and PPE to Milwaukee nonprofits

September 3, 2020 | 2020 DNC, Articles, COVID-19 |
The COVID-19 pandemic makes getting a flu shot this year more important than ever for saving lives

September 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Syndicated |
Dr. Jeanette Kowalik resigns as city’s Commissioner of Heath for job with national health policy group

September 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Curated |
White America’s Greatest Fear: A Level Playing Field

September 2, 2020 | Columns, Featured, Reggie Jackson |
Fact checking a garden of lies: Trump uses a wounded Kenosha to fertilize his seeds of fear

September 2, 2020 | BLM MKE, Curated |
Pushing forward with healing: Family of Jacob Blake host community block party to register voters

September 2, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
Rebuilding Kenosha: State Democratic leaders offer no-interest microloans to help restore businesses

September 2, 2020 | Articles, BLM MKE |
A “Law and Order” president defends a racially motivated White vigilante charged with murder

September 2, 2020 | BLM MKE, Syndicated |
There are no Blue Lives: Being opposed to police brutality is not an attack on law enforcement

September 1, 2020 | BLM MKE, Featured, John Pavlovitz |