COVID-19 hospitalizations across Wisconsin hit levels not seen since before vaccines were widely available
Hospitalizations of COVID-19 patients in Wisconsin have reached a level not seen since January, prompting a renewed call for the public to get vaccinated as the more contagious delta variant drives cases up. State data shows half the hospitals in Wisconsin have...
20 Years after 9/11: The real threat to freedom and democracy is from America’s violent far right
On 6 January, a mob including White Supremacists and far-right militants stormed the U.S. Capitol as lawmakers were certifying Joe Biden’s election victory. The attack followed mass shootings by white supremacists, like in El Paso in 2019 and a Pittsburgh synagogue...
George Marshall Clark: Unmarked grave of Milwaukee lynching victim gets headstone after 160 years
Nearly two centuries after his brief life and brutal death were entered into public record as the only recorded lynching in Milwaukee history, George Marshall Clark’s unmarked grave was memorialized with a granite headstone during a special ceremony at Forest Home Cemetery.
Wilkie James and the 54th Massachusetts: From the carnage of Fort Wagner in 1863 to a life in Milwaukee
The five children of Henry James Sr. include some of America’s greatest thinkers. Henry’s oldest son, the philosopher and educator William James, is considered the father of American psychology. His second son and namesake Henry James Jr. wrote 22 novels, hundreds of...
Stage play to explore the trauma soldiers experienced at the infamous Confederate prison in Andersonville
An original stage production about the trauma faced by a Civil War veteran, “The Last Depot: A Civil War Sketch” will be performed in front of a live audience on October 8 and 9 at Inspiration Studios. Set in 1895, the one-man production explores the...
Addicted to bad narratives: When Milwaukee refuses to see that Blacks are disadvantage by design
“White people go around, it seems to me, with a very carefully suppressed terror of Black people, a tremendous uneasiness. They don’t know what the Black face hides. They’re sure it’s hiding something. What it’s hiding is American history. What it’s hiding is...
Milwaukee’s Black educators pledge to teach the truth in resistance to lies mandated by lawmakers
Members of the Milwaukee community gathered at Cathedral Square near the historical marker honoring Joshua Glover on September 5, as part of the national awareness program “Day of Action: Educators Pledge to Teach the Truth” developed by the Zinn Education...
Medieval Imagery: Why White Supremacists and QAnon cultists are obsessed with the Byzantine Empire
By Roland Betancourt, Professor, University of California, Irvine From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. Displays of Crusader shields and tattoos derived from Norse and Celtic...
Economic Straitjacket: Milwaukee not allowed to raise revenue while Wisconsin benefits from $319M windfall
A whopping $319 million. That is the amount of unanticipated revenue the State of Wisconsin projects to bring in during the 2020-2021 fiscal year, according to a memo from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. That is money the State wasn’t even expecting to come in. That...
Fair Elections: Multiple lawsuits compete for how Wisconsin’s voting maps will be drawn
The legal wrangling in multiple lawsuits brought by liberal and conservatives groups has intensified in recent days as activists fight over how the state’s new legislative districts will be drawn and who will draw them. Several lawsuits have already been filed in...
Federal lawsuit seeks years of unpaid benefits denied disabled people due to discriminatory Wisconsin law
A group of disabled Wisconsin residents are looking to overturn a Wisconsin law keeping people who collect Social Security Disability Insurance benefits from also receiving unemployment funds after getting laid off. The class-action lawsuit seeks compensation for...
Grief for 9/11 but denial for 01/06: Real patriots condemn all terrorist attacks on America
Every year, when the calendar changes, they arrive: the #NeverForget-ers. Soon, millions of Americans will post their flowery tributes and loudly broadcast their patriotism and tweet out their #NeverForget hashtags regarding the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks...
