A group of historians is working to enhance the history of Latinx people in Wisconsin. That history starts with with Rafael Baez, the first documented Latinx person to live in Milwaukee, and extends to present day.

Voting rights have been at the forefront of American political consciousness for more than a decade. Gerrymandering, strict voter ID rules, and attempts to remove people from the voter rolls are just some of the ways voting rights have been threatened in Wisconsin. As this fight has continued, one person has arguably become the face and voice for voter advocacy: Stacey Abrams.

For 160 years George Marshall Clark, Milwaukee’s only known lynching victim, lay in an unmarked grave in Forest Home Cemetery. Clark, who was Black, was killed in September of 1861, after being accused of a crime he did not commit. Last week, a headstone was finally placed at his burial site thanks to the efforts of a local activist.

September 11th, 2001 was a defining moment in our nation’s history. Its impact has extended far beyond what we could have imagined and fundamentally impacted news media, our perspectives on news, and the ways we engage with it.

Milwaukee Film’s 2021 Cultures & Communities Festival, formerly known as the Minority Health Film Festival, is happening now through September 12th. The festival aims to promote individual and communal wellness while encouraging cultural equity, bringing representation through programming and outreach for historically underrepresented communities.

The images of Afghans flooding the Kabul airport bear a striking resemblance to the images of the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War. And like the aftermath of the Vietnam War, we could be facing another refugee crisis.

A group of Milwaukee businesses have joined together to encourage people to get vaccinated. The Pabst Theater Group is among them, and they’re taking it one step further by requiring patrons to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test.

According to Gov. Tony Evers, Wisconsin’s safer-at-home orders are intended to protect “vulnerable communities.” Perhaps one of the most vulnerable communities, though, is the state’s prison population.

In the early morning of August 14, 1971, Herb Powless and local chapter members of the American Indian Movement took over the abandoned McKinely Coast Guard station along the Milwaukee lakefront in an effort to regain the land from the federal government.

Stockbridge-Munsee Community's Director of Cultural Affairs Heather Bruegl unpacks the generational impact of Native American Boarding Schools and why it’s important that the federal government is investigating.