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Last year, Milwaukee Public Schools sports were put on pause due to the pandemic. Now that high school basketball is back, an underdog team has done surprisingly well: the North Division Blue Devils.
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One of Milwaukee’s longest-serving Black pharmacists, affectionately known as Dr. Lester Carter has passed away. Carter reportedly died from complications related to COVID-19.
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The economic and other disparities between residents of Milwaukee's central city and other parts of the metropolitan area are well known. The suburbs, in…
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Milwaukee's 53206 ZIP code incarcerates the highest rate of African-American men in the United States — a statistic that disproportionately affects…
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The birds aren’t the only thing you’ll hear these days at the local organization We Got This' community garden.There’s the sound of the jackhammer from…
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Milwaukee zip code 53206 comes with a lot of labels: mass incarceration, poverty, violence.Underneath those labels there’s a lot of pain, but there’s also…
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We hear a lot about how divided the Milwaukee area is – divided by politics, divided by income level, divided by race. In many ways, it’s a city of haves…
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The project would primarily target the 53206 zip code area. People with outstanding arrest warrants could surrender to authorities at faith-based…
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It might surprise you that Wisconsin schools hand out suspensions to black students at the highest rate in the country. If so, you've probably never lived in Milwaukee.
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A grassroots movement is underway in Milwaukee’s 53206 zip code to improve the lives of young African American men who live there.This summer, we reported…