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Dinorah Márquez, director of the Latino Arts Strings program, and Gohar Vardanyan, an acclaimed classical guitarist and headliner at the event, talk about the tenth annual festival.
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Annemarie Sawkins, curator of the exhibition “Rediscovering Ruth Grotenrath: All Things Belong To This Earth” at the Warehouse Art Museum, speaks on the Milwaukee artist's career and impact.
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A local non-profit known as Rid Racism Milwaukee is honoring four women in the metro Milwaukee area with a "Spotlight Award" for the work they do to advance racial equity.
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Marina Franklin has been a comedian since 1997, but says it wasn’t until The Women’s Fund of Greater Milwaukee reached out this year to be a keynote speaker that she realized she’s also a feminist. Franklin and The Women's Fund executive director Lisa Attonito discuss what being a feminist means today, and how to change and reclaim the concept to be more inclusive.
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Cream City Dreams is produced and co-hosted by Milwaukee-based creatives Meagan Schultz and Shelly Roder. Along with sharing their guests’ experiences, the podcast also seeks to motivate listeners to consider what it would take to make their own dreams come true.
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Stephanie Findley is a doctor of behavioral health at the Findley Foundation’s medical clinic. She shares how the overturning of Roe v. Wade has affected her clinic’s work and how this will disproportionately impact people of color.
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Streets named after women make up a very small portion of Milwaukee’s map. Recently, Ayodeji Obayomi wrote a piece for the Milwaukee Neighborhood New Service, bringing this issue to light.
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The WeRISE Community Doula program is working to train more people to become doulas who can support Black and brown pregnant people. Dalvery Blackwell, a co-founder of the African American Breastfeeding Network, shares more.
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Jada Davis was crowned Miss Milwaukee 2022. She is the first Black woman to be awarded this title in the local pageant’s 98-year history.
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Statistics from the FBI revealed that in 2020, at least four Black women and girls were killed per day in the United States. State Rep. Shelia Stubbs wants to create a task force to address the problem of missing and murdered Black women and girls in Wisconsin.