By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Change happens, but it doesn’t always happen fast – at least not in Milwaukee. Dr. Leonard Egede, who joined the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2017, noted that there’s a sense of hopelessness in Milwaukee, but he, for one, is not without hope. Egede was recently appointed the endowed chair position for […]
‘There are No Throwaway People’: Sister MacCanon Brown and Her Mission to Serve Homeless Residents
By Princess Safiya Byers Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. A few years after Sister MacCanon Brown moved to Milwaukee in 1986, she was close to homelessness herself. She had come to […]
From a Side Hustle to a Business to a Company Tiffany Miller is Scaling Up
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. To make a business succeed, it requires hard work, determination, sweat, luck, gumption and an entrepreneurial spirit that can’t be put into words. When the City of Milwaukee Health Department commissioned entrepreneur Tiffany Miller to make 36,000 face masks for its mask […]
Kennita Hickman Centers Black and Brown Creatives in Her Work
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Kennita Hickman is making moves this year. She has plans to bring back the program “Artist Eats,” she’s working with apparel companies to curate brand campaigns and helping independent artists establish their brands. But the one overarching goal that is evident in all of Hickman’s work is her efforts to make space […]
Shavonda Sisson Reflects on What it Means to Be a Leader
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz It’s not easy being a leader in a city like Milwaukee, but Shavonda Sisson isn’t one to back down from a challenge. Sisson is the founder of the Love on Black Women foundation, the director of programming at Public Allies and a board member for Leaders Igniting Transformation or LIT to name […]
‘Someone Needed to Get in the Middle’: How Metcalfe Park Community Bridges Came to Be
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz The heroes of today aren’t the ones who save the whole world but the ones who save their little part of it. Mother-and-daughter duo, Danell Cross and Melody McCurtis, are two such heroes. The two have been working to improve the neighborhood of Metcalfe Park through the community engagement group Metcalfe Park […]
President Joe Biden Visits Milwaukee for Town Hall
By Karen Stokes President Joe Biden participated in his first town hall meeting since becoming president this past Tuesday, Feb. 16. The town hall took place at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee was moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Topics ranged from the $1.9 million economic rescue package and domestic terrorism, but it’s no surprise that […]
Groups, Lawmakers Push to Ease Expungement of Low-Level Criminal Convictions
By Edgar Mendez Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. Shanyeill McCloud has heard countless stories from people who have been hurt by their past criminal record. “If a person cannot find jobs […]
2 Milwaukee Organizations Win Grants to Address Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault
By Matt Martinez Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. Two Milwaukee organizations have each received $125,000 grants from Advocate Aurora Health to bolster domestic abuse and sexual assault advocacy programs. United Migrant […]
Rep. LaKeshia Myers Reintroduces the CROWN Act
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Hair is a lot of things to a lot of different people. It’s an identifier, a statement maker and in some cases, it’s a political statement. No matter how someone chooses to style their hair, the choice should be theirs, but that’s not always the case. Communities of color, specifically the Black […]
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