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Business and education leaders call on state officials to invest in Wisconsin’s children and schools

Business and education leaders call on state officials to invest in Wisconsin’s children and schools

Posted by | Mar 3, 2022

The Pabst Theater Group hosted a special press conference at the Riverside Theater on March 2 to help a group of local business and education leaders address the issue of investing in the state’s future. The coalition collectively called on Governor Tony Evers, Speaker Robin Vos, and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu to direct a portion of the state’s $5.5 billion budget surplus to Wisconsin K-12 education. They presented a letter written to the three state officials, supported by 160 businesses and education leaders across Wisconsin. “March 13, 2020, was a day when the unthinkable happened. It was the...

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Thirty Years a Slave: Remembering Milwaukee’s first published Black author Louis Hughes

Thirty Years a Slave: Remembering Milwaukee’s first published Black author Louis Hughes

Posted by | Feb 28, 2022

Louis Hughes was born 190 years ago in 1832, to a White plantation owner and Black slave in Charlottesville, Virginia. Thirty-three years after gaining his freedom at the end of the Civil War, he wrote a memoir about being a slave and became the first African American author published in Milwaukee. His memoir, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom (The institution of slavery as seen on the plantation and in the home of the planter), provided extensive information about the complex relationships between slaves and masters, along with graphic accounts of the physical abuse slaves endured. Hughes...

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The Secret Garden: New floral exhibit brings magical expressions of spring to Milwaukee’s dull COVID winter

The Secret Garden: New floral exhibit brings magical expressions of spring to Milwaukee’s dull COVID winter

Posted by | Feb 10, 2022

Loosely inspired by the 1911 book “The Secret Garden” by Francis Hodgson Burnett, The Warehouse Art Museum opens its new exhibition of the same name on February 18. Presented as an “anti-pandemic exhibition” that brings color to the faceless mask of COVID, “The Secret Garden” was timed to offer visitors a tropical oasis and much needed refuge during Milwaukee’s harsh winter months. Featured will be more than 100 works by 80 artists spanning 20 countries and 5 continents, curated from The Warehouse Art Museum’s international permanent collection and newly commissioned art by local artists. “The Secret Garden is an...

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