Author: Staff

On September 5, President Donald Trump rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, an Obama-era immigration policy that grants deportation relief for undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children, known as Dreamers. Established in 2012, DACA currently protects 800,000 immigrant youth nationwide, including almost 8,000 in Wisconsin, and grants them the right to remain in America and receive work permits. The decision has a direct impact on Milwaukee, and city leaders and elected officials have issued a series of statements in reaction to the political development which targets children. Mayor Tom Barrett released...

The stock footage and photography service Dissolve mocks tone-deaf marketers once again with the commercial “This Is a Generic Millennial Ad.” Milwaukee Millennials have shared their frustration with how they are viewed by previous generations, particularly Baby Boomers. The social architecture firm NEWaukee has held countless workshops and lectures on the subject, to help businesses attract and retain the young workforce. So a new advertisement published on August 29 is something that the under 30 crowd is all too familiar with. Produced with clips entirely from the Dissolve media library, the video is chock-full of every stereotype ever used...

The 50th anniversary celebration of the Housing March on Milwaukee takes place on August 28, the same date that a ten-day trek begins to once again confront White Supremacy in a new generation. Activists from Milwaukee plan to attend the “March to Confront White Supremacy: Charlottesville to D.C.,” which will march over 100 miles to demonstrate a shared commitment to confronting white supremacy. The call is being answered from faith and community leaders to dismantle white supremacy in America by taking the demand for moral leadership to the nation’s capital. “We are uniting right now to reckon with America’s...