WUWM is honoring the lives of Black Milwaukeeans and their contributions to the community during Black History Month.
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"Wisconsin's Underground Railroad" is available now on the Milwaukee PBS website and YouTube channel. -
This year, Black History Month, which once was known as Negro History Week, marks a century of celebrating Black people’s contributions to the United States. -
The Manfred Olson Planetarium at UW-Milwaukee is celebrating Black History Month by combining poetry and stargazing with a program on Feb. 18 featuring Milwaukee Poet Laureate Shelly Conley. -
For Black History Month, Milwaukee Film's Ty Williams has handpicked a variety of Afrofuturist films that reflect on and celebrate Black icons in fiction. -
On this Bubbler Talk, WUWM's Teran Powell looks into this question: Did Marian Anderson ever visit and sing in Milwaukee? If so, where did she stay, as individuals who were Black were not allowed to stay in hotels in the past. -
Where are the Black farmers? This is what artist James Shields asked himself, before setting across the country to find them. After touring the South and Northeast, he's traveling the Midwest this summer. -
As the Milwaukee Winter Farmer’s Market celebrated African American cuisine for Black History Month, Lake Effect’s Joy Powers spoke to Dig In! contributor Venice Williams to learn more about Black culinary history. -
Lake Effect’s Joy Powers is joined by law professor Bernadette Atuahene, whose new book Plundered explores racist policies that impede Black and Hispanic homeownership in Detroit and throughout the nation. -
More than just a place to wash your clothes, a laundromat in Milwaukee’s Murray Hill neighborhood is also meant to be a third space—a community gathering place. -
For Black History Month, Milwaukee Film's Ty Williams has handpicked a variety of films that exemplify the dynamic range of Black stories told through cinema.
