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Participants in “We Got This” march with handmade signs down Dr. Martin Luther King Drive during the 14th Annual Summer of Peace Rally. Trevijuan Washington was 9 years old when he was shot in a park. A little girl the same age pushed him off the monkey bars, he said. He pushed her back and she got her parents, who came back and opened fire. Four years later, Washington was playing outside his house when Natasha Coe, office and public affairs director for Running Rebels, walked by and said, “You know, we’ve got basketball down at Running Rebels.” Now...

Team led by The Alexander Company to rehabilitate historic buildings for homeless, at-risk veterans. The Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee announced today that it will lead a team of local organizations to rehabilitate and restore six buildings at the Milwaukee VA Soldiers Home (Soldiers Home), a National Historic Landmark District, located on the grounds of the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center. The buildings will be restored to their original purpose – the service of veterans. Under the proposal, the buildings – including Old Main (Building 2), the most prominent and recognizable building on the campus, the...

Dr. Eugenia Afinoguénova, professor of Spanish at Marquette University, is the recipient of this year’s Way Klingler Fellowship Award in the humanities. The award, which includes $20,000 annually for three years, will allow Afinoguénova to build a “time cube”: a three-dimensional visualization combining the texts and the itineraries of more than 100 travelers along 19th-century Spanish roads. The work will be done in conjunction with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Digital Humanities Lab, the American Geographical Society Library and the Marquette Visualization Lab. Afinoguénova aims to give scholars the interdisciplinary tools to analyze the literature, using computer analysis and visualization...

Indian Summer Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary on Sept. 9-11, 2016, at the lakefront Maier Festival Park. Both traditional and contemporary Native culture will be shared throughout the weekend. This year, the festival includes crowd favorites like the competition pow wow, choreographed fireworks on Saturday and contemporary as well as traditional Native American performers. By popular demand, Brule returns Saturday night to headline the Miller Main Stage. The group is known for thrilling audiences with a merging of cultural rock, traditional dancers in full regalia and theatrical instrumentations. Other “don’t miss” performers include Supaman (hip hop artist from Crow...

The Wauwatosa-based maker of homemade candy and ice cream is producing a new confectionary in conjunction with the Cranberry Growers Association for the 2016 Wisconsin State Fair. While some gracefully move their bodies through the air to stick the landing, or spike a volleyball over a net atop the beach to win big, Wisconsinites have their eyes on the real prize: the All-American Cran-on-a-Stick. To coincide with the events happening in Rio de Janeiro, the Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association (WSCGA) debuted its white chocolate-covered cranberries on a stick with red and blue icing drizzle for the 2016 Wisconsin State...

Wisconsin Historical Society Press publishes book about the century-rich history of the public broadcasting. Peek behind the microphones of Wisconsin Public Radio in a new Wisconsin Historical Society Press book about the century-rich history of public broadcasting, Wisconsin on the Air: 100 years of Public Broadcasting in the State that Invented It. Author and broadcast pioneer Jack Mitchell, who developed National Public Radio’s All Things Considered before becoming head of WPR, reveals an insider perspective on the conception and growth of public broadcasting. This media biography deftly reports the nation’s 100-year public broadcasting journey from its start in 1917...