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Giannis Antetokounmpo ends Milwaukee’s 50 year wait with first NBA championship win for Bucks since 1971

Giannis Antetokounmpo ends Milwaukee’s 50 year wait with first NBA championship win for Bucks since 1971

Posted by | Jul 21, 2021 |

Giannis Antetokounmpo ended one of the greatest NBA Finals ever with 50 points and a championship Milwaukee waited 50 years to win again. Antetokounmpo added 14 rebounds and five blocked shots as the Bucks beat the Phoenix Suns 105-98 on July 20 to win the series 4-2. It was the third game this series with at least 40 points and 10 rebounds for Antetokounmpo, a dominant debut finals performance that takes its place among some of the game’s greatest. He shot 16 for 25 from the field and made an unbelievable 17-of-19 free throws — a spectacular showing for...

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Mandela Pledge: Local challenge calls for 67 minutes of community service to honor Nelson Mandela

Mandela Pledge: Local challenge calls for 67 minutes of community service to honor Nelson Mandela

Posted by | Jul 17, 2021 |

Nelson Mandela International Day, celebrated across the world each year on the anniversary of the freedom fighter’s July 18 birthday, mobilizes communities, organizations, governments, and individuals to continue Mandela’s legacy of dedicating his life to positive change. This year, as the Milwaukee Public Museum (MPM) and America’s Black Holocaust Museum partner to host the U.S. debut of Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition, MPM and ABHM challenge the Wisconsin community to continue Mandela’s legacy by taking the a “My Mandela Pledge,” and spending 67 minutes volunteering in honor of the 67 years Mandela spent fighting for social justice. “Nelson Mandela’s...

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Our Doctors: Wisconsin launches media campaign with local medical endorsements for COVID-19 vaccines

Our Doctors: Wisconsin launches media campaign with local medical endorsements for COVID-19 vaccines

Posted by | Jul 17, 2021 |

Governor Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) announced the launch of “Our Doctors” on July 15, a statewide multimedia campaign that will bring together health care professionals across the state of Wisconsin, from different health systems and specialties, to share their confidence in the COVID-19 vaccines. The campaign encourages Wisconsinites who may be hesitant about vaccines to start a conversation with their own family doctor about the COVID-19 vaccines. “From the beginning of this pandemic, we’ve trusted science and healthcare professionals to guide our state’s response, and now our state and our economy are bouncing...

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HHS awards Milwaukee $4M to fight COVID-19 and improve health literacy among minority communities

HHS awards Milwaukee $4M to fight COVID-19 and improve health literacy among minority communities

Posted by | Jul 15, 2021 |

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) awarded $4 million to the City of Milwaukee’s Office of African American Affairs. The funding is a part of a $250 million two-year initiative to identify and implement best practices for improving health literacy to enhance COVID-19 vaccination and other mitigation practices among underserved populations. The Advancing Health Literacy (AHL) to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19 initiative is part of the Biden/Harris Administration’s National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. “The Advancing Health Literacy initiative is a vital part of the HHS...

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Black-owned family business aims to be catalyst of generational wealth for Milwaukee’s Black community

Black-owned family business aims to be catalyst of generational wealth for Milwaukee’s Black community

Posted by | Jul 7, 2021 |

A Black-owned family trucking company that got its big break during to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow by focusing on creating generational wealth for Milwaukee’s Black community. A&A Services and Transportation is a subcontractor working primarily for FedEx. The company has three separate routes running three Sprinter vans on a package pickup and delivery route in the West Allis area and two “line haul” routes with two semitrucks each carrying a double-trailer running from Illinois to the Milwaukee area. “We see nothing but opportunity,” said Pastor W. Aaron Robbins Sr., who founded the company with his wife, Laci...

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Medical College of Wisconsin researchers identify link between mortgage lending bias and cancer survival

Medical College of Wisconsin researchers identify link between mortgage lending bias and cancer survival

Posted by | Jul 1, 2021 |

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) have identified a linkage between contemporary redlining, mortgage lending bias based on property location, and mortality after breast cancer diagnosis among older women in the United States. The results, published recently in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, show women residing in more heavily redlined areas experience worse survival rates, after controlling for disease and demographic factors. This is the first nation-wide study to examine the relationship between contemporary mortgage lending bias and cancer survival. Researchers found redlining differed by race and ethnicity with 79% of non-Hispanic Black and 57% of Hispanic...

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