With a dedicated career helping children and families adversely impacted by immigration, homelessness, abuse, and oppressive systems in South America, Europe, and his native Milwaukee, Luke serves as Director of Program Design and Community Engagement at the Institute for Child and Family Well-being at Children’s Wisconsin.
As an award-winning Senior Columnist for the Milwaukee Independent, Reggie Jackson covers a range of African American issues. He is also a Consultant with Nurturing Diversity Partners, and volunteers as Head Griot for America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) in Bronzeville.
REGGIE JACKSON: 7x Award Winner in Best Column categories from the Milwaukee Press Club
As a teacher for over twenty years, Dominic Inouye helped students to develop their reading, writing, critical thinking, and, most of all, their voices. He worked as The Pfister Hotel Narrator, a one-year appointment, and currently manages the ZIP MKE project that photo documents the city to promote cultural understanding.
Dominic Inouye: 2x Award Winner in Best Column category from the Milwaukee Press Club
Dr. Kenneth Cole is a Licensed Psychologist who has spent the past two decades helping members of the community in developing the ability to bring about positive change for their lives, and empowering those individuals to advocate for themselves.
Kenneth Cole: 2x Award Winner in Reporting categories from the Milwaukee Press Club
Pardeep Kaleka is the Executive Director of the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, published author of The Gifts of Our Wounds, award-winning columnist with Milwaukee Independent, and a clinician specializing in utilizing a trauma-informed approach to treat survivors and perpetrators of assault, abuse, and acts of violence.
PARDEEP KALEKA: Winner in Best Blog category of the 88th Annual Milwaukee Press Club Awards
John Pavlovitz: Winner of Best Blog at the 89th Annual Milwaukee Press Club Awards
Recent Columns
Teapot Dome scandal: Why Biden’s booming economy gets overshadowed by Trump’s corruption and lies
All three of the nation’s major stock indexes hit record highs on May 15 after the latest data showed inflation cooling. Standard and Poor’s 500, more commonly known as the S&P 500, measures the stock performance of 500 of the largest companies listed on U.S....
Democrats confidence in America stands as a contrast to Republicans who only see an apocalyptic wasteland
May 13 was a day that illustrated why the Democrats have become America’s cheerleaders, emphasizing how investment in the nation’s infrastructure has created jobs and rebuilt the country. The Biden-Harris administration has been touting its investments in rebuilding...
Political myth: How Trump distorted the Cowboy image into a poisonous caricature of the values it professed
I write a lot about how the Biden-Harris administration is working to restore the principles of the period between 1933 and 1981, when members of both political parties widely shared the belief that the government should regulate business, provide a basic social...
Project 2025: Understanding the Heritage Foundation’s playbook to end American democracy
Journalist Casey Michel, who specializes in the study of kleptocracy, recently pointed out that reporters had missed an important meeting. Michel noted that while reporters covered Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to former president Donald Trump at...
Discriminatory laws: Dozens of states implement restrictions inspired by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
Florida rolled out a new law that prohibits many Chinese citizens from buying property in the state, especially near important infrastructure like airports, refineries, and military installations. As reported in The New York Times on May 7 by Amy Qin and Patricia...
Essential Gear: The toolkit of a Milwaukee photojournalist on international assignments
Anyone who has taken a long-distance trip has an idea about what is required to pack for the rigorous necessities of travel. When photojournalists prepare for assignments overseas it is far more complicated, especially planning the logistics from a city like...
Journey to Japan: A photojournalist’s diary from the ruins of Tōhoku 13 years later
3.11 EXPLORING FUKUSHIMA: This feature is part of an original Milwaukee Independent editorial series that documented the 13th anniversary of the "Great East Japan Earthquake," tsunami, and nuclear accident, including the conditions of both the people and places that...
A Bible Salesman: Trump is not the first political con man to compare himself to Jesus Christ
On his social media outlet, former president Trump encouraged his supporters to buy a “God Bless The USA” Bible for $59.99. The Bible is my “favorite book,” he said in a promotional video, and said he owns “many.” The Bible includes the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of...
Seven Mountain Mandate: Christian nationalism returns to the same theocracy used to justify slavery
The Alabama Supreme Court on February 16 decided that cells awaiting implantation for in vitro fertilization are children and that the accidental destruction of such an embryo falls under the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act. In an opinion concurring with the...
