Staff, Author at Milwaukee Independent

Reggie Jackson: What I learned from a lynching survivor about anger

Posted by Staff | Jan 3, 2018 |

In this talk, Reggie Jackson shares what he has learned about dealing with anger in a positive way from his mentor, Dr. James Cameron, the only known lynching survivor and founder of America’s Black Holocaust Museum. TEDx UW-Milwaukee Bio: Reggie Jackson | What I Learned from a Lynching Survivor about Anger Head Griot, America’s Black Holocaust Museum Education Liaison, ResCare Adjunct Professor, Concordia University-Wisconsin Special Education Teacher, Milwaukee Public Schools 2017 Winner, Frank P. Zeidler Public Service Award, City of Milwaukee 2016 Courageous Love Award, First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee 2015 Winner, Eliminating Racism Award, Southeast Wisconsin’s YWCA ©...

Not in Our Town’s Documentary “Waking in Oak Creek”

Posted by Staff | Jan 1, 2018 |

Norma Duckworth and the Open Door Community Center JC hosted a screening and panel discussion at Shorewood High School of the “Waking in Oak Creek” documentary, telling the story of the town’s transformation and healing after the deadly 2012 hate attack. On August 5, 2014, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) and Not In Our Town (NIOT) released Waking in Oak Creek, the first in a series of films focused on helping law enforcement and communities work together on hate crime prevention. Not In Our Town’s film “Waking in Oak Creek” documented...

Walker’s Point to be permanent home for National Bobblehead Museum

Posted by Staff | Dec 31, 2017 |

A location has been selected for the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum at 170C S. 1st Street in Milwaukee. The organization will occupy the 4,300 square foot space above Stack’d Burger Bar and Colectivo at the corner of 1st Street and Pittsburgh Avenue in the Walker’s Point neighborhood, on the edge of the 3rd Ward. The Museum expects to open the permanent location by spring of 2018 “It has been an exciting and exhilarating journey since we announced the concept in November 2014. We had a successful preview exhibit last year, and our retail and custom bobblehead...

A generation of political cartoons that go against the grain in upcoming Bill Sanders book

Posted by Staff | Dec 27, 2017 |

Editorial cartoonists are an endangered species, and even in their heyday they were rare. Milwaukee’s Bill Sanders offers a political time capsule of top news stories from the past decades in his upcoming book. Bill Sanders illustrated for the Milwaukee Journal from 1967 until his 1991 retirement. His career began in the Eisenhower era and he is still drawing today. In his new book “Against the Grain,” Sanders shares the upbringing and experiences that prepared him to inflict his opinions on the readers of the three major newspapers he worked for, the 100-plus papers he was syndicated in, and...

O’Donnell Park structures part of County transfer to Milwaukee Art Museum

Posted by Staff | Dec 21, 2017 |

In an agreement signed on December 18 with Milwaukee County, the Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is taking ownership of several buildings that make up its lakefront campus, along with O’Donnell Park and the parking garage beneath it. Included in the deal, MAM will assume responsibility for tens of millions of dollars in maintenance costs for the structures, while the county retains ownership of the land. “As a longtime personal supporter of both the Milwaukee Art Museum and efforts to preserve our lakefront, I am pleased that this deal also protects public spaces for future generations and provides the museum...

Statewide crackdown on impaired drivers to run through New Year’s Day

Posted by Staff | Dec 21, 2017 |

To help deter impaired driving over the upcoming holiday period, state and local law enforcement throughout Wisconsin will patrol in greater numbers and for additional hours as part of the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign. 588 people died on Wisconsin roads in 2016. Many of those deaths were preventable, and they affect other lives and cause great pain to thousands of people throughout Wisconsin. “Drivers impaired by alcohol, prescription medications or other drugs endanger everyone along our roadways,” said David Pabst, Director of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s (WisDOT) Bureau of Transportation Safety. “While law enforcement will...