Teran Powell
Race & Ethnicity ReporterTeran Powell 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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A 28-year-old Black transgender woman named Brazil Johnson was recently killed in Milwaukee. This week, a few dozen of Johnson’s loved ones gathered where she was killed for a vigil. -
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration authorized the use of the Pfizer vaccine for everyone six months and older and the Moderna vaccine for kids six months to five years of age.
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Black women experience the highest levels of unintended pregnancies. As a result, they’re three times more likely than white women to seek abortion services, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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Heal the Hood MKE has been a resource in the Milwaukee community for the past 10 years. Founder Ajamou Butler says they’re projecting close to 2,000 people at Saturday’s block party at 1st and Wright streets in Milwaukee.
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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month is an annual celebration of the historical and cultural contributions of people of Asian descent in the United States. It began as a weeklong celebration in the late 1970s, and eventually encompassed a full month by the 1990s.
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Milwaukee-area residents are speaking out in support of abortion rights. On Wednesday, hundreds of protestors gathered for a rally and march in downtown Milwaukee in response to a leaked draft opinion from the U.S. Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Who will be Milwaukee’s next mayor? It’s all come down to acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson and former Ald. Bob Donovan and the April 5 election. The candidates came together this week for a conversation about how they would lead Milwaukee in the face of existing challenges.
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Milwaukee Film is hosting its first-ever symposium on pregnancy-related mortality among Black women. WUWM's Teran Powell talks with event’s keynote speaker, actress and mom of two Christina Elmore.
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Health officials in Milwaukee County say they’re seeing encouraging decreases in COVID-19 cases. But some concerns over the virus persist.
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An exhibition at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee aims to call attention to the problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
