Author: Staff

The Kinnickinnic Avenue BID selected the program director of Black Cat Alley to organize the street art initiative, featuring five local muralists this summer. The Kinnickinnic Avenue BID, the non-profit organization tasked with supporting business and development along its namesake “main street” in Bay View, is proud to announce a multi-mural project on five commercial buildings on KK Avenue. Discussions are underway with several interested building owners, the final decision on locations is to be determined. The mural project is just one aspect of the Kinnickinnic Avenue street enhancement project, which aims to stimulate neighborhood growth throughout the length...

“I don’t want it to be emotional, I don’t want pity. I want the truth… It was my pain. I don’t want to burden other people, I want them to consider it in looking at the world.” – Eric Blaustein In an increasingly rare opportunity to hear the first-hand accounts of Holocaust survivors, Alverno College will hold its 16th annual Holocaust Remembrance Service, the largest non-Jewish gathering of this type in the Midwest. The service remembers the six million Jews who perished, and honors those who resisted and survived. This year’s speaker is Holocaust survivor Eric Blaustein, who was...

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett delivered his 2017 State of the City address on March 6 at the Harley-Davidson University to a crowd of hundreds. This is the full text of his speech as delivered, with a companion Photo Essay of the event. | Good morning, I’m Tom Barrett, Mayor of the City of Milwaukee, and one of my first jobs was right here at Harley-Davidson where I was working on the assembly line and I learned how not to drop an engine on the factory floor, not that I ever did that. In high school, I worked as an...

The subject of discussion at Milwaukee Area Technical College’s March “Diversity Dialogues” forum will be “Institutional Racism and Its Effects.” The March 11 public discussion will be free and open to all members of the community. Dr. Pamela Malone, sociology instructor at the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC), will be the main presenter of the session, held at Washington High School of Information Technology, 2525 North Sherman Boulevard. “We hope these sessions can be used as a model for an ongoing, community-wide discussion that could be a catalyst to transform lives and our community,” said Dr. Vicki J. Martin,...