Teran Powell
Race & Ethnicity ReporterIn 2018, Teran became WUWM's Race & Ethnicity Reporter. She joined WUWM in the fall of 2017 as the station’s very first Eric Von Fellow.
Teran began her journalism career during her years as a student at Marquette University. She worked as a reporter for Marquette student media and the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service covering local events and community activists. She has also freelanced for the Shepherd Express and worked as a show editor for Fox 6 News.
A Chicago native, Teran’s passion for journalism lies within being up close and personal with people in the community and the happenings that affect them directly. With a genuine passion for storytelling, Teran’s goal is to tell the stories that need to be told.
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Milwaukeeans celebrated the 9th annual Heal the Hood Block Party on Saturday at 9th and Ring. It offered food, family fun, educational resources and fellowship. -
There is sure to be more national media attention on Milwaukee as a result of the Bucks' success. But recently, ESPN’s First Take hosts referred to Milwaukee as a "terrible" city.
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Conservatives are pushing more than a dozen election bills following former President Donald Trump's narrow loss in battleground Wisconsin to President Joe Biden.
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The year 2020 saw 37 transgender and gender non-conforming people killed, the highest number since 2013 when the Human Rights Campaign started tracking incidents.
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Milwaukee was one of the first in the north to celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas learned they were free.
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The state of COVID-19 in Milwaukee County continues to improve according to health officials. Dr. Ben Weston of the Medical College of Wisconsin said COVID-19 stills poses a threat to unvaccinated groups, such as children under 12 years old.
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According to CDC data from 2009 to 2019, Native people were 2.2 times more likely to be killed by police than white people and 1.2 times more likely than Black people.
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For more than 20 years, families gathered around their radios during the holidays to hear the Billie the Brownie show, featuring Billie, Santa Claus and Captain Larry.
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A year ago, less than 25 Black students in all of Wisconsin took the AP computer science exam. Now, over 100 Black students at Milwaukee Excellence Charter School are taking the test on Monday.
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Only 25% of African Americans in Milwaukee are registered organ, tissue and eye donors, but in Wisconsin more than 2,000 people are currently on the transplant list, and 400 of them are Black.
