Author: Editor

The 8th Annual Sixteenth Street Bike Day was held at Kosciuszko Park on June 29, giving away hundreds of bicycles to south side children and promoting healthy and active lifestyles through safe family biking. The theme for the free 2019 event was “Community Health in Motion,” which also offered bike tune-ups, learn-to-ride clinics, bike safety education, Zumba and Salsa dancing, games for kids, and healthy food demonstrations from WIC nutritionists to a crowd of area families. “I’ve seen people come back year after year, sometimes bringing back a bike that they got here and outgrew to exchange for a...

A group of 31 ministers, rabbis, and religious leaders blocked the garage doors of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in Milwaukee on June 24, to resist the latest threats by President Trump to hold immigration raids that targeted refugee families. The Administration’s continued policies of separating families at the border and imprisoning people seeking asylum has been routinely condemned as brutal, subjecting vulnerable children to inhumane conditions. At the Milwaukee protest, more than one thousand people rallied in the streets surrounding the ICE building, at times blocking traffic. Hundreds of delegates from the United Church of Christ...