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Closing the wealth gap: Milwaukee considers providing basic income to heal racial inequity

Posted by Wisconsin Watch | Aug 25, 2021 |

Towanda Perkins is a single mother with two grown sons. She works as an office manager at a nonprofit organization in Milwaukee. During the pandemic, she has seen many mothers with children who have lost their jobs and been evicted by landlords. Perkins is expecting to see more homelessness once the temporary halt on certain evictions issued by the CDC, recently extended to October 3, ends. Between June and November of last year, the national poverty rate increased by 2.4% overall — but 3.1% for Black Americans, according to economists from the University of Chicago and the University of...

A Racial Tragedy in Philadelphia: Part 2 – When Police Dropped Bombs on an American City

Posted by Reggie Jackson | May 30, 2021

In the days ahead, Americans will hear the ugly details of the most infamous anti-black race riot in the nation’s history. The Tulsa Race Massacre, which will have its 100th anniversary commemorated on May 31, was the first case of an American city being bombed from the air. Most have never heard of the second case of a mainland American city being bombed from the air. It occurred in May 1985 in Philadelphia. An organization of Blacks called MOVE, who wanted to have nothing to do with the America that existed in Philadelphia at that time, had their compound...

Second-Class Citizens: The Myth of Racial Integration in America

Posted by Reggie Jackson | May 18, 2021

“By the 1960s, black poverty was deeply entrenched, but more importantly, it was marked by its stark contrast to the white middle class’s prosperity. Not only had the majority of blacks not ridden the postwar economic boom; conditions in the ghetto had actually worsened. Almost half of black children lived in poverty in contrast with only 9 percent of white children. Black families had less than one-fifth the wealth of white families. A Federal Reserve study concluded that the source of the wealth gap was historic inequalities in income and opportunities, “a legacy of past economic deprivation,” which would...

Reparations 101: Repairing the damage from generations of concentrated disadvantage

Posted by Reggie Jackson | May 4, 2021

“At long last, let America contemplate the scope of its enduring human-rights wrong against a whole people. Let the vision of blacks not become so blighted from a sunless eternity that we fail to see the staggering breadth of America’s crime against us. Solutions must be tailored to the scope of the crime in a way that would make the victim whole. In this case, the psychic and economic injury is enormous, multidimensional and long-running. Thus must be America’s restitution to blacks for the damage done.” – Randal Robinson, “The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks” (2000) “As a...

U.S. Capitol police were caught off-guard even though domestic terrorists had made violent intentions clear

Posted by ProPublica | Jan 7, 2021 |

The invasion of the U.S. Capitol on January 6 was stoked in plain sight. For weeks, the far-right supporters of President Donald Trump railed on social media that the election had been stolen. They openly discussed the idea of violent protest on the day Congress met to certify the result. “We came up with the idea to occupy just outside the CAPITOL on Jan 6th,” leaders of the Stop the Steal movement wrote on Dec. 23. They called their January 6 demonstration the Wild Protest, a name taken from a tweet by Trump that encouraged his supporters to take...

SPECIAL | Forest Home Cemetery

Posted by Editor | Dec 31, 2020 |

Milwaukee’s Historic Forest Home Cemetery Special Coverage “What lies buried beneath the trees of Forest Home is the foundation of Milwaukee.” – John Gurda, Milwaukee historian St. Paul’s Episcopal Church purchased 72 acres at the edge of Milwaukee in 1849 to create Forest Home Cemetery (map), a public gift for the young immigrant city. It was created as an eternal resting place for all who had settled there. Since the first burial in August 1850, the grounds have included such historic individuals as the city’s founders and developers, mayors, beer barons, industrialists, pioneering women, and Civil War casualties. It...