Milwaukee’s Brain Drain: Task force recommends ways to help stop young professionals from leaving
With thousands of young Black and brown Milwaukeeans migrating every year to larger cities including Atlanta, Washington DC, and Houston, a group of young professionals has come up with recommendations to keep their colleagues from leaving. Milwaukee’s...
The silence of White moderates: Bystanders must take a stand against racists if we want to end racism
“I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great...
From chattel slavery to Jim Crow: Juneteenth is now an unavoidable reminder that reparations are due
Weeks after the last cannon sounded and the gun smoke cleared in April 1865, slavery in most of the United States had come to an end, unless you were an enslaved person in Texas. It was not until June 19, 1865, a full 71 days after the surrender at Appomattox and 37...
New study finds that racial bias makes White Americans more likely to support a war with China
By Vladimir Enrique Medenica, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Delaware; and David Ebner, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware The effects of American racial bias and anti-Asian sentiment...
Juneteenth Independence Day: Milwaukee celebrates the end of slavery with 50th Annual Freedom Parade
Milwaukee is home to one of the longest held Juneteenth Day celebrations in the United States, and June 19, 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of the local commemoration. Juneteenth officially became the 12th national holiday, after President Joe Biden signed a bill to recognize the day that has commemorated the end of chattel slavery.
Clarene Mitchell: An entrepreneurial pilgrimage from Milwaukee’s Bronzeville to Tulsa’s Black Wall Street
Take a mental trip back in time with me. A historical look back at some key dates in African American history. 1619: Africans were kidnapped and transported across the Atlantic Ocean and forced into slavery. The first known group brought to America were taken to Fort...
Angela Lang: The bittersweetness of Juneteenth’s recognition as a Federal holiday
Juneteenth has been the day we commemorate the end of slavery. As long as I can remember, my friends and family referred to it as “our 4th of July.” It’s always a day of fun, community, and celebration. But Juneteenth feels different lately. Last year started our...
An Open Letter to U.S. Representative Tom Tiffany: How dare you claim Juneteenth fuels separatism
“Once again, House Democrats have used their majority to balkanize our country and fuel separatism by creating a race-based ‘Independence Day. There is only one Independence Day in America, just as there is only one National Anthem, one American flag and one...
The War on Critical Race Theory: How America profits by projecting racism into foreign policy
David Ignatius recently had a piece in the Washington Post that uncovered the attempt of the Trump administration to reorder the Middle East along an axis anchored by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudia Arabia (more popularly known as MBS), Prime Minister...
Attacks on teaching Systemic Racism mirror the shrieking fear tactics used by Joe McCarthy
“Because he’s weak. And don’t ask me to get inside the mind of a liberal, progressive, socialist, Marxist like President Biden.” – Ron Johnson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin “Johnson means them all as epithets rather than ideological descriptors....
Textbook White Fragility: Wisconsin legislators seek to prevent historical truths from being taught in school
A century ago, African American citizens of the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, had their community decimated within the span of eighteen hours. Spurred by a rumor of alleged sexual assault of a white female by a Black teenager in an elevator, the Black...
Waukesha Republican seeks deployment of National Guard troops to occupy Milwaukee’s Black community
A Waukesha County Republican said that armed troops patrolling the streets of Milwaukee is necessary for residents to feel like they don’t live in a “warzone-like setting.” State Representative Joe Sanfelippo (R–New Berlin), concerned about recent increases in violent...
