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On top of providing entertaining baseball, The Negro League also served as an important economic and social pillar for Black communities around the country, including here in Milwaukee.
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A new film, starring Helen Mirren, depicts former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's experiences during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. But before spending five decades in Israeli politics, Golda Meir spent some of her formative years in Milwaukee.
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To honor the 25th anniversary of the festival, this year’s theme is “legacy" as returning filmmakers bring new films and films from the festival’s past are being shown again for new audiences.
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UW-Milwaukee director of film studies Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, who teaches a class on "trash cinema," speaks more about its historical, societal and cultural significance.
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Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski speaks with "We Are Not Ghouls" director and editor Chris James Thompson, along with the documentary's subject Retired Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley.
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The short film Trying makes its premiere at the 2023 Milwaukee Film Festival. Director, co-writer, and Milwaukee native Emily Alpren joins Lake Effect’s Audrey Nowakowski to share more about the experience and the film's deep personal meaning.
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For one week in 1968, late night host Johnny Carson made the historic decision to give up his job on The Tonight Show and allow actor and activist Harry Belafonte to take over.
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Filmaker Justinsuperstar talks about his film that highlight's his parents' prosthetic nipple business that they run out of their home in Eau Claire, Wis.
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Carroll University professor Dr. Lilly Goren is an author and editor of the book The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She discusses the cultural impact and, of course, the politics espoused in these films.
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Derek Mosely, director of Marquette University’s Lubar Center for Public Policy Research and Civic Education, talks about the rich history of African American food culture that helped shape the upcoming event, "For the Soul: A Narrated Tasting & Conversation."