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Organizers with Comité Sin Fronteras said the event was aimed at bringing people together during what they describe as a period of heightened fear among undocumented residents.
A new Little Free Library at 37th and Chambers in Milwaukee stands as more than just a book exchange — it's a memorial to a mother lost to gun violence and a symbol of healing for her daughter.
Two lawsuits in Wisconsin are seeking to have the state’s congressional map thrown out in a development that follows ...
Nine schools across the city were found to have degrading, chipping interiors. Kat Cisar, a mother of 6-year-old twins, found out in late February that her kids were potentially being exposed to ...
A year after Milwaukee streetlight outages hit an all-time high, the city's Department of Public Works has launched a new website educating the public on the light system. A year after Milwaukee ...
As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial, 100 years after the signing of the emancipation proclamation, slavery was not holding him down; segregation was. He was never ...
In an interview, consultants also said they are well aware of Milwaukee's past and present racial segregation. "We understand that these are difficult conversations, and that we're not dealing ...
School segregation is still very much a problem in the U.S. Researchers at Stanford and the University of Southern California marked the Brown anniversary by launching Segregation Explorer ...
Meanwhile, segregation by economic status has increased by roughly 50 percent since 1991. The two co-authors, who presented their findings at a May 6 conference, also created an interactive map ...
Sixty years ago, to demonstrate the impact of segregation in Milwaukee, civil rights activists took the city to school — by taking students out of school. Frustrated by a lack of action from ...