Author: Staff

With contributions from many local elders and icons, the book “LGBT Milwaukee” celebrates the resilience, determination, and unity required to bring a community out of the shadows and into the spotlight. Milwaukee Pride, Inc. recently announced the upcoming publication of LGBT Milwaukee, written by local author Michail Takach, with foreword by Don Schwamb of the Wisconsin LGBT History Project. The book includes more than 150 colorful images, many of which have never been seen by the public. It is also the first published social history of Milwaukee’s LGBT community from mid-century to today. Over the past 75 years, gays...

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) released its study on home mortgage lending in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and surrounding areas on July 18. The 47-page document, based on 2014 data, is part of recent efforts by the NCRC to reform the national financial system, respond to the foreclosure crisis, and expand the Community Reinvestment Act. The research published in the NCRC report highlighted the effect of poverty and segregation in Milwaukee neighborhoods. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Within the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, nearly 90 percent of African Americans live in the inner city. The Milwaukee metro area has one of...

Following the Orlando tragedy that took place during PrideFest last month, the attack in Nice, France on July 14 occurred as downtown Milwaukee prepared to Storm the Bastille during the 35th annual Bastille Days. The latest terrorist incident came less than a year after the Paris attacks, when the Eiffel Tower from Bastille Days was temporarily erected in front of City Hall as a memorial. In the midst of the four-day celebration, Milwaukee’s Bastille Days commemorated the French tragedy, where a truck slammed into a crowd of revelers and claimed at least 84 victims in the southern city of...

Milwaukee had a fast and efficient public transportation system that sustained residential need for travel and fueled economic sustainability, until city planners got a glimpse of the future. Originally built in the 1960s, the Marquette Interchange was rebuilt over four years from 2004 to 2008 and is the main transportation hub for downtown Milwaukee. Commuters use it every day and is one of downtown Milwaukee’s most prominent architectural landmarks. Over the years, millions of motorists would come to know the interchange as part of their route to work, around town, or across the state. Yet mostly forgotten from the...