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Police officers deliver emotional testimony about the day Trump sent domestic terrorists to attempt a coup
In early July, the Bullock Texas State History Museum cancelled a book event three and a half hours before it was supposed to start. After Representatives Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and Liz Cheney (R-WY) opened the hearing, Sergeant Aquilino Gonell and and Officer Harry...
Avoiding mob rule: Why the Second Amendment does not protect vigilantes who masquerade as militia
By Eliga Gould, Professor of History, University of New Hampshire When a federal judge in California struck down the state’s 32-year-old ban on assault weapons in early June 2021, he added a volatile new issue to the gun-rights debate. The ruling, by U.S. District...
A well regulated White Militia: America’s obsession with guns remains rooted in the subjugation of Blacks
A series of slave revolts terrified White residents and helped fuel the rationale for gun ownership. Bodies are piling up all over the second amendment as two of America’s pandemics converge. The “plague of gun violence” and the inability to mount an effective...
Last Thing We Ever Do: Musicians express the Vietnam War experience of Milwaukee veterans in new album
Local musicians and the stories of hometown Vietnam veterans are featured in a new album being released on August 8 at Milwaukee’s Turner Hall Ballroom. “The Last Thing We Ever Do” CD was produced by Warrior Songs, a Wisconsin non-profit helping veterans heal from the...
Hop Summer Nights: Special events usher in a return to regular streetcar service beginning August 1
The Hop, presented by Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, announced on July 24 that service schedules and frequency would return to normal beginning Sunday, August 1. The positive change was a reflection of the increase in activity in greater Downtown Milwaukee and...
An inadequate safety net: America has not changed how it measures who is poor since LBJ’s War on Poverty
By Mark Robert Rank, Professor of Social Welfare, Washington University in St Louis In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared war on poverty. “The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it,” he told Congress in his first State of the Union address. “We...
Celebrating a Black Greek-Nigerian immigrant who won the NBA title while stoking anti-immigrant fear
The Bucks made history, and Giannis Antetokounmpo, the son of Nigerian parents who migrated to Greece, made the American Dream his reality. Unfortunately, that’s a dream that now hundreds of thousands of immigrant people in the United States feel is unobtainable, and...
The immigration problem begins with us: The truth about the United States Border-Industrial Complex
The story you have heard about immigration, from politicians and the mainstream media alike, is not close to the full picture. Here is the truth about how we got here and what we must do to fix it. A desperate combination of factors are driving migrants and asylum...
Why rewriting history matters: We cannot make good decisions for the future with inaccurate knowledge
In early July, the Bullock Texas State History Museum cancelled a book event three and a half hours before it was supposed to start. Written by journalists Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, the book was titled Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of...
A fatal partisan strategy: Letting Americans die to win elections
“A surprising amount of death will occur soon…” But why, when the deadly Delta variant is sweeping the world, are Republicans and their media warning people not to get vaccinated?” – Dr. Jonathan Reiner, CNN Medical Analyst There is always a reason....
Avoiding Politi-Speak: How activist jargon obscures more than it clarifies
If you had asked me six years ago to write a call to action to inspire people to participate in my social justice group, it would have gone something like this: “The United States of Amerikkka has always been and will always be an ecocidal White supremacist...
From Servant to Sellout: Why the racial stereotype of “Uncle Tom” remains a political weapon
By Cheryl Thompson, Assistant Professor, Creative Industries, Ryerson University Published nearly 170 years ago, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe had a profound impact on American slavery. But Uncle Tom is not a relic from the 19th century,...
