Policy Talk: Joe Biden makes first official trip as President to Milwaukee for CNN town hall
President Joe Biden arrived in Milwaukee on February 16, hours after a winter storm dumped inches of snow on the city, for a CNN town hall meeting to discuss a list of concerns with local residents at the the historic Pabst Theater. The town hall was Biden’s...
State lawmakers continue to gaslight the Wisconsin public about Foxconn’s failed development
Recent news reports have exposed the ongoing contract renegotiations between the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) and Foxconn, related to the controversial LCD factory which Foxconn promised to build in Mount Pleasant. featured several statements...
State budget proposal seeks to invest millions to help Wisconsin’s children, families, and caregivers
Governor Tony Evers announced on February 9 that his 2021-23 biennial budget will include major investments in childcare for kids and families, and in caregiving for aging and older adults and individuals with disabilities. The initiative is designed to help support...
A world remade by Grief: How WandaVision explores the reality of ordinary people living with loss
WARNING: The following contains spoilers and/or possible spoilers for Marvel’s WandaVision on Disney+ I get Wanda Maximoff. At least, I get what I think I know about her. I get what grief does to your world. In the seconds after my father died suddenly and many times...
The depth of inhumanity: When no line is too far to cross for political gain
Human beings are supposed to have a bottom: a base level of decency that defines us, a place we will not go to because to go there would mean abandoning the very moral givens that tether us to one another — and slipping into inhumanity. We are expected as participants...
Podcast: Voices in Union – Episode 020921
Voices in Union: with Reggie Jackson and Maria Hamilton – is a weekly podcast that focuses on the African American Diaspora in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It connects local concerns to national trends on social justice, and educates the general population on the...
