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The Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) and America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) offered a sneak preview of the new “Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition” on April 13, which will take visitors on a personal journey through the life of the world’s most iconic freedom fighter and political leader. The museums will co-host the United States debut of the new global-touring exhibition for a limited engagement from April 23 to August. Through an immersive experience, visitors will discover Nelson Mandela as they have never known him before – beyond the human rights icon and advocate for social change. “When the Milwaukee...

Imagine MKE and Milwaukee Downtown BID #21 released an inspirational video set to a newly commissioned poem by city and state poet laureate Dasha Kelly Hamilton, in celebration of 414 Day 2021. The video produced by Samer Ghani celebrates the city, and its arts and culture community. The visuals shared vignettes of the ways Milwaukee’s artists have continued to create, while being stuck at home during the pandemic. The efforts also point to the reemerge of performances on stages familiar and new in the coming months. “This past year brought staggering loss to our city and our world. As...

In a victory for the rights of state voters, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin on April 9 ruled in a 5-2 decision that a purge of the state’s voter rolls could not proceed. The ruling prevents hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin voters from being removed. Writing for the majority, Justice Brian Hagedorn explained that the relevant purge statute “does not apply to the [Wisconsin Elections] Commission; there is no credible argument that it does.” Notably, the Court rejected the argument that the Commission’s previous removal of voters in the 2017-2018 period showed it had the power to remove voters...

The ACLU of Wisconsin on March 17 denounced a package of bills introduced by a handful of state lawmakers aiming to make it more difficult to vote, calling the proposed legislation a direct attack on the voting rights of Wisconsinites. The bills would impose more restrictions on how voters can request and return absentee ballots and would increase barriers for voters around the state – including for many people of color, people with disabilities, and senior citizens. These proposals are based on misinformation and false or exaggerated claims about mail voting in Wisconsin. “Let’s just call this what it...