Community volunteers go door-to-door to provide COVID-19 vaccinations in Milwaukee neighborhoods
Over the last year and a half, Marcus Austin of Milwaukee watched as friends and extended family members died from COVID-19. Austin said that he did not think the Black community had gotten enough education about the coronavirus, and he wanted to help change that....
Milwaukee’s Recovery and Resilience Plan aims to invest millions of federal aid in jobs and housing
Outlined in his Milwaukee Recovery and Resilience Plan, Mayor Tom Barrett recently announced investing $13.8 million to promote job readiness and employment opportunities. He is also directing over $30 million to support housing activities in Milwaukee using funds...
Cultural Hysteria: The battles over what we teach in history class is not about Critical Race Theory
“Not only do they not know about it, they don’t want to know about it. They don’t care about what the ideas are. They can take the name, fill it with meaning, and create this hysteria, and that can be a winning issue when they really don’t have any other agendas to...
Critical Race Theory was developed by legal scholars to understand setbacks faced by Blacks since 1865
By David Miguel Gray, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Affiliate, Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis U.S. Rep.resentative Jim Banks of Indiana sent a letter to fellow Republicans on June 24, 2021, stating: “As Republicans, we reject the racial...
The greed of fossil fuel: An opposition to clean energy that can grow the economy and save our future
Florida governor Ron DeSantis became the latest Republican governor to sign a bill making it harder for citizens to shift away from the fossil fuels that are changing the climate. The move came after Miami, which is in danger as sea levels rise, proposed cutting...
Big Oil’s dirty secrets: Petroleum giants face a reckoning for the devastation caused by fossil fuels
After a century of wielding extraordinary economic and political power, America’s petroleum giants face a reckoning for driving the greatest existential threat of our lifetimes. An unprecedented wave of lawsuits, filed by cities and states across the US, aim to hold...
From slavery to skin care: How palm oil became the most hated crop and most used source of fat
By Jonathan E. Robins, Associate Professor of Global History, Michigan Technological University Palm oil is everywhere today: in food, soap, lipstick, even newspaper ink. It is been called the world’s most hated crop because of its association with deforestation in...
Performative Patriotism: Legislation would require National Anthem at youth sports events in Wisconsin
State Senator Kelda Roys (D-Madison) was struck by the absurdity that, under a bill currently pending in the Senate, her three-year-old’s T-ball team will need to play the National Anthem before every game. The bill, authored by State Senator Patrick Testin (R-Stevens...
Democracy watchdog cites 14th Amendment in effort to ban insurrectionist lawmakers from public office
Calling on election officials across the U.S. to recognize that the nation “is at a critical crossroads,” a non-profit legal advocacy group on June 30 cited the 14th Amendment as it demanded Republicans who aided the January 6 insurrection—including former...
New details suggest senior Trump officials worked to appease leaders of the January 6 insurrection
On December 19, 2020, Then-President Donald Trump blasted out a tweet to his 88 million followers, inviting supporters to Washington for a “wild” protest. One of his senior advisers had released a 36-page report alleging significant evidence of election fraud that...
Conservative Culture Wars: Why White Generation X Evangelicals are losing faith in the Republican Party
By Terry Shoemaker, Lecturer, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University Since the 1970s, White American evangelicals, a large subsection of Protestants who hold to a literal reading of the Bible, have often managed to get...
The visually stunning “Beyond Van Gogh: An Immersive Experience” opens in Milwaukee
Created by French-Canadian Director Mathieu St-Arnaud and his team at Montreal’s world-renowned Normal Studio, the exhibit “Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience” premiered in Milwaukee on July 9 at the Wisconsin Center and will run through September 19.
