Inauguration of Cavalier Johnson as city’s 45th Mayor opens a new chapter for the future of Milwaukee
When City Clerk Jim Owczarski finished administering the Oath of Office at the April 13 inauguration ceremony, Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson officially became the first new Mayor of Milwaukee in almost two decades. With his children at his side, and wife Dominique...
Housing First: Milwaukee County recognized with lowest unsheltered homeless population in America
Milwaukee County, the City of Milwaukee, key business leaders, and community partners gathered on April 7 at the 3rd Street Market Hall on Wisconsin Avenue to announced that Milwaukee County had been recognized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Kids will be who they see: What Cavalier Johnson as a Black Mayor means to the Black youth of Milwaukee
The day after Cavalier Johnson’s historic and landslide victory to become the first elected Black Mayor of Milwaukee, he held his first public press conference from the Mayor’s office at City Hall. The press gathering on April 6 offered members of the news...
Klondike: Award-winning motion picture from Ukraine to show at 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival
Milwaukee Film kicks off its 2022 Film Festival from April 21 to May 5, marking the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic that the signature cinema event will be held in-person and during its new release season. Taking place at three cinemas, the Oriental Theatre,...
Photos from the frontlines: Sergi Mykhalchuk gathers haunting visual evidence in aftermath of occupation
As Russian forces have been dislodged from their occupation of towns around the Kyiv region, journalists have finally been able to document the aftermath. The scope of viciousness by Putin’s military has been revealed in a continuous wave of images showing the...
An advocate for Irpin: How Boris Nayflish searched for his Ukrainian roots and found a Sister City
Milwaukee was founded as a city of immigrants, with traditions embedded into the culture and passed down for generations. The population grew in 19th century, as industrious people from predominately European nations sought better economic opportunities. But by the...
Cavalier Johnson: A photographic retrospective from before becoming Milwaukee’s first elected Black Mayor
It would be overly dramatic and an inaccurate stretch to say that I always knew Cavalier Johnson would become Mayor of Milwaukee. But from the beginning I had the feeling that he was going somewhere special in his political career. In my early career as a...
When Wisconsin parents yell fire after ensuring their unsupervised children have matches and gasoline
For any casual observer of Milwaukee’s 2022 election season, the biggest topic of debate between candidates for Mayor has been the issue of crime, and by extension handguns. The subject has been a dog whistle used by White people for targeting the Black...
Maks Levin: Missing Ukrainian photojournalist known for documenting Russian war crimes found dead
In the early days of the Russian invasion, the photo of a family carrying their German Shepherd while fleeing across a destroyed bridge in Milwaukee’s sister city of Irpin went viral. It showed the world the humanitarian crisis unfolding from Putin’s...
Scenes from the frontlines: Sergi Mykhalchuk details the wreckage of Irpin in the wake of its liberation
Since the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, Milwaukee’s sister city Irpin has been a strategic roadblock thwarting the Russian advance to capture the capital of Kyiv. After weeks of bloody fighting to dislodge the enemy from its foothold in the area, Ukrainian...
Irpin Liberated: Ukrainian forces drive Russians out of Milwaukee’s besieged Sister City and retake control
The mayor of Irpin, Milwaukee’s sister city, said on March 28 that the area had been “liberated” from Russian troops. After weeks of fierce fighting, Ukraine declared that its forces had retaken the strategic town in the northwestern suburb of Kyiv, as...
The Rape of Irpin: Survivors of the Russian siege share disturbing accounts of escaping the inhuman cruelty
The Instagram page War. Stories from Ukraine has been collecting stories of Ukrainian people who detail how they live during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. Milwaukee’s sister city Irpin faced the brunt of Russia’s fierce invasion, because its location...
