By LaKeshia N. Myers The gleaming promise of artificial intelligence (AI) comes with a dirty secret that corporate America would rather keep hidden in the shadows. While tech moguls like Elon Musk tout their artificial intelligence (AI) innovations as revolutionary breakthroughs, the environmental and health costs of this digital revolution are being dumped squarely on […]
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Federal Claw Backs: Often Disproportionate but Legal
Say Something Real By Michelle Bryant When I couldn’t afford cable, I had NPR and PBS. When I wanted a balanced perspective on national and world news, I relied on NPR. When I wanted to learn about an array of topics, cultures, and people, I tuned in to these outlets. Never thinking liberal, conservative, or […]
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The Fierce Urgency of Now: Why Legacy Civil Rights Organizations Need You Now More Than Ever
By LaKeshia N. Myers In an era where diversity, equity, and inclusion programs face systematic dismantling and educational inequities persist in communities across Milwaukee and beyond, the question isn’t whether we need civil rights organizations—it’s whether we’re willing to step up and join them. The NAACP and Urban League, pillars of the civil rights movement […]
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Hurricane Katrina: Change is Slow, Until it Isn’t
Say Something Real By Michelle Bryant Katrina is 20 years old…let that sink in for a minute. Excuse my intimacy and lack of including the word Hurricane in front of her name, but she honestly feels like an old friend. I cut my teeth in the Wisconsin State Legislature working with the initial group of […]
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A Teenager’s Guide to Mental Wellness Over the Summer 2025: The APS You Want to Use
Kweku’s Korner By Kofi Jonah Smith & R. Kweku Amoasi School is out and children are excited for the new freedoms, especially the ability to manage their own time. However, this extra free time if not used properly can become a waste zone full of non-productivity. Many teens will mismanage their time; for example, some […]
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Brewers Sweep Series Against World Champion Dodgers
By Charles Collier The Brewers have been as hot as fish grease! They’ve won five of their last six games. These victories include a July 9th extra-inning nailbiter (3-2) over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Rookie first baseman Andrew Vaughn hit a game-tying single in the ninth against reliever Tanner Scott. In the tenth, star-in-the-making Jackson […]
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Senator Drake Votes Against the 25-27 Biennial Budget
Madison – On July 2nd, Senator Dora Drake of the 4th Senate District votes against the 2025-2027 Biennial Budget. Senator Drake has provided the following statement: “After months of chaos and years of ineffective governance, Legislative Republicans have failed to secure votes in their own caucus and came to us in the midnight hour for […]
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The Echo of History: Douglass’s Question Resonates in Trump’s America
By LaKeshia N. Myers When Frederick Douglass stood before a Rochester audience on July 5, 1852, and delivered his searing critique “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”, he exposed the fundamental contradiction at the heart of American democracy. His words cut through the celebratory veneer of Independence Day to reveal a nation […]
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No One Should Ever Accuse Trump of Acting Like a Daddy
Say Something Real By Michelle Bryant NATO’s Secretary General Mark Rutte has repeatedly called Trump “daddy” during and since the organization’s recent summit in The Hague. Most Republicans, at every level of government, certainly act like Trump is their father. Afraid to speak up, talk back, or challenge the U.S. President, many GOP men come […]
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4th of U Lie
Kweku’s Korner By Kweku Amoasi & Noah Smith The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776, and “signed on August 2, 1776. The words penned by the founding fathers of this nation were aspirational and unprecedented. They boldly declared “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and […]