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Katherine Kokal/WUWMUWM students and staff worry about the impact of merging eight resource centers into one student hubUW-Milwaukee plans to merge eight multicultural and resource centers into one hub this fall. Some students are concerned with how the loss of those eight targeted spaces will affect the people who need them. -
Dongyu Xu/Tada Images - stock.adobe.com/1832606666Supporters of Islamic Society of Milwaukee president continue to demand his release from ICE custodySalah Sarsour, the president of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, was detained March 30 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Help WUWM’s Race & Ethnicity Reporter Teran Powell dig deeper into the issues you are most concerned about.
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A new dance-theater work explores how communities under assault care for themselves. The show is made with — and for — the city’s BIPOC LGBTQ+ community. It focuses on the local “Ballroom” scene. -
The Marcus Center for Performing Arts’ annual Martin Luther King Day celebration features Milwaukee youth who use art, writing or speeches to interpret Dr. King’s words. -
Wisconsin's only full-service Black-owned grocery store, the Sherman Park Grocery Store, is calling on the community to help keep its doors open. -
In 2025, Milwaukeeans embodied what it meant to be a community, responding to calls to support one another in times of need. -
There is an ongoing investigation into the hanging death of a Black man in Brookfield, a suburb west of Milwaukee. -
“Black Nativity” is Langston Hughes’ musical adaptation of the Nativity story. The production returns to the Milwaukee stage for its 10th year. -
The land transfer marks the first known land transfer between a Catholic institution and a tribal nation. -
Milwaukee residents have been watching for increased ICE activity. ICE already operates a facility on the Milwaukee School of Engineering campus, and some students are calling for its removal. -
An ongoing UWM project is mapping Milwaukee's history of racially restrictive covenants — home deeds that prohibited sale of properties to non-white buyers. -
An exhibition featuring violins owned and played by Jewish musicians and others who were targeted by Nazis — before and during the Holocaust — just opened at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee.
