Legislative effort seeks to end no-knock search warrants in Wisconsin after almost a quarter century
State Representative LaKeshia Myers recently introduced a new bill to prevent the use of no-knock search warrants by Wisconsin law enforcement. The bill was named “Breonna’s Law” after Louisville, Kentucky EMT Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old who was killed during such...
A party of lawlessness and disorder: How Republicans became co-conspirators in the abolition of democracy
There really is no debating that Trump incited a deadly insurrection riot, no more so than we might debate that the earth is round. And the pending vote to convict or acquit will make clear exactly what the GOP has become. If it was not clear before, the Senate...
Video playlist of virtual walks across Japan offers a way to step out of the isolated madness of COVID-19
There is no shortage of professionally written articles about exercise and how to stay healthy, especially during the isolation of the pandemic. And like any hobby or interest, applying that knowledge to daily life – especially in Milwaukee during the winter...
The story of Yasuke: An enduring history of the first African Samurai in feudal Japan
Almost 500 years ago, a tall African man arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior. Known as Yasuke, the man was a warrior who reached the rank of samurai under the rule of Oda Nobunaga – a...
Fad Diets: A chronicle of the strange American obsession with gimmick weight loss plans
By Melissa Wdowik, Assistant Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University “Of all the parasites that affect humanity I do not know of, nor can I imagine, any more distressing than that of Obesity.” So started William Banting’s “Letter on...
Reggie Jackson: My fading love affair with the National Football League
“The NFL Wants “Unconventional” Head Coaches: They just have to be white.” – Richard Johnson of Slate As I sat and watched the Packers lose a game to the Tampa Bay Bucs and Tom Brady I realized it might be the last game I ever watch. I did not watch Kаnsаs City...
A Political Game: The danger of voters acting like hard-core sports fans
By Michael Devlin, Associate Professor of Communication, Texas State University; and Natalie Brown Devlin, Assistant Professor of Advertising, University of Texas at Austin During Donald Trump’s presidency, the American electorate became more divided and partisan,...
New lawsuit seeks to stop part of Waukesha’s $286M plan to drain drinking water from Lake Michigan
The city of Waukesha’s $286 million plan to pipe in water from Lake Michigan has hit another snag in its decades-long effort to provide residents with safe drinking water. The Village of Waukesha has filed a lawsuit against the city that aims to shut down construction...
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 020921
Voices in Union: with Reggie Jackson and Maria Hamilton – is a weekly podcast that focuses on the African American Diaspora in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It connects local concerns to national trends on social justice, and educates the general population on the...
A message to America: Black people are not broken and we don’t need fixing, you do
“…black people have been kept in oppression and deprivation by a poisonous fog of lies that depicted them as inferior, born deficient, and deservedly doomed to servitude to the grave.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “The reason people think it’s important to...
Law enforcement continues to criminalize Black activists while accommodating White reactionaries
By Paul Ringel, Associate Professor of U.S. History, High Point University In the early hours of February 10, 1971, police surrounded a property in High Point, North Carolina, where members of the Black Panther Party lived and worked. In the ensuing shootout, a...
A Monstrous Truth: Even after the departure of a madman the political madness remains
We fooled ourselves, good people. For the last four years we told one another a necessary story. Because we wanted to believe the best about humanity, many of us clung to a false narrative of otherwise decent people hopelessly swept up in the fervor of the moment:...
