The Trauma of Denial: Why children are suffering from self-serving adults who have weaponized the pandemic
It is open season on American school children. In the wake of nearly two years of a pandemic that has raged furiously through the planet, politically-poisoned, religion-addled people who have spent that time continually moving the goalposts of what they will protest...
AmeriCorps programs that serve Milwaukee receive $2.4M in funding to expand community assistance
Serve Wisconsin announced on September 20 that Wisconsin had received nearly $8.1 million in grant funding from AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and community volunteerism. Included within those funds are $2,417,154 in AmeriCorps funding for ten...
September 24: When the Milwaukee Fourteen burned draft files in protest against the Vietnam War
On September 24, 1968, 14 people removed 10,000 draft files from the Milwaukee draft board and burned them with home-made napalm near a memorial to veterans, in front of what was then known as the Brumder Building, now renamed as the Germania Building, on West Wells...
Mural inspired by Jim Crow era “Negro Motorist Green Book” to be installed overlooking Lake Michigan
A newly commissioned large-scale wall mural and sculptural installation will be unveiled October 29 at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Created by Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams, Our Time Together will be a 93-foot work that reframes historical Black narratives. “In Our...
God and Country: The “Right” religion is one that makes us more empathetic human beings
In organized religion, one of the central questions has always been and continues to be “Who has it Right?” For millennia, billions and billions of human beings spanning the planet have individually and collectively struggled to correctly discern the...
Outpost and Walnut Way partner on a sustainable urban agriculture program for Milwaukee youth
Outpost Natural Foods named the Walnut Way Conservation as its 2021 Sustainable Agriculture Partner on September 1. As part of the partnership, Outpost will feature Walnut Way produce in its stores, support Walnut Way teen interns, and contribute and help raise funds...
