By Karen Stokes Milwaukee’s African American community is the subject of a new documentary that is putting the spotlight on how health disparities and poverty has negatively impacted the African American community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Filmmaker Theo Rogers’ premiere documentary “Milwaukee in Pain,” takes him back to where his career began, Milwaukee. Rogers said […]
Joe Biden Has A Plan for COVID-19
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz In times of trouble, a nation and its people turn to its leader for guidance. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, every nation looked towards its leaders to steer them through it. In America, the response from the White House has often been criticized as slow coming or worse, directed towards corporations instead […]
NASA Names Headquarters After first Black Female Engineer at NASA
This story was originally published on blackengineer.com NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black female engineer at NASA. Jackson started her career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. A […]
DACA Program To Remain After Supreme Court Ruling
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz History happens every day, but historical events aren’t as common. Thursday, June 18, will be remembered as a historical day, especially for those under the Deferred Action Against Childhood Arrivals program better known as DACA. DACA began in 2012 under President Barack Obama. It gave undocumented individuals who came to the states […]
Sen. Baldwin and Lt. Gov. Barnes Talk Impact of COVID-19
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Darren Price and his wife own BP Smokehouse Barbeque, a restaurant located in Tomah, Wisconsin. They used their savings to create the restaurant and things were going considerably well, until the arrival of COVID-19. Through his Small Business Administration coach, Price heard about the loan programming available for restaurant owners. He applied […]
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Now is The Time for Racial Justice
By Ellen M. Gilligan President and CEO, Greater Milwaukee Foundation There are two public health crises in America right now. One is quite recent. One has been afflicting us for generations. Racism is our nation’s oldest sin and most vile disease, and I am grief-stricken that we are again mourning more black lives lost and […]
M³ Honors MPS Seniors Graduating with Early College Credit
The latest class of Milwaukee Public Schools high school seniors to complete the M³ early college program was honored with a virtual ceremony, capping a year of growth for the trailblazing partnership involving Milwaukee’s three largest public education institutions. M³ (pronounced M-Cubed) is a joint initiative among the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee Area Technical College […]
Gov. Tony Evers Announces Grant Program for Small Businesses
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz It is no secret that the economy has taken a hit due to the pandemic. States across the nation are reopening and with them are the small businesses trying to stay afloat. Earlier this week, Gov. Tony Evers announced a grant program as part of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s We’re All […]
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Where Do We Go from Here: Where Is the Republican Plan Post “Safer at Home”?
By LaKeshia Myers In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King published a book called “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?” In his book, King discussed the question of what African Americans should do with their new freedoms found in laws such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He concluded that all Americans […]
Calling in Black: Self Care through a Culturally Specific Lens
By Dr. Reba Peoples We’ve all heard the old adage that black people have to work twice as hard to be seen as half as good. The sad truth is that, thanks to a host of structural and systemic factors that make us more vulnerable to chronic disease, black people also have to work twice […]
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