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The festival, presented by Black Arts MKE, is a celebration of storytelling from an African Diasporic perspective. It features the voices of the young people and the elders.
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A 28-year-old Black transgender woman named Brazil Johnson was recently killed in Milwaukee. This week, a few dozen of Johnson’s loved ones gathered where she was killed for a vigil.
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Black women experience the highest levels of unintended pregnancies. As a result, they’re three times more likely than white women to seek abortion services, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
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Heal the Hood MKE has been a resource in the Milwaukee community for the past 10 years. Founder Ajamou Butler says they’re projecting close to 2,000 people at Saturday’s block party at 1st and Wright streets in Milwaukee.
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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month is an annual celebration of the historical and cultural contributions of people of Asian descent in the United States. It began as a weeklong celebration in the late 1970s, and eventually encompassed a full month by the 1990s.
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Milwaukee Film is hosting its first-ever symposium on pregnancy-related mortality among Black women. WUWM's Teran Powell talks with event’s keynote speaker, actress and mom of two Christina Elmore.
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An exhibition at the Walker’s Point Center for the Arts in Milwaukee aims to call attention to the problem of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.
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America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee’s Bronzeville neighborhood is welcoming visitors once again. The museum’s purpose is to promote the acknowledgment of African American history, from pre-captivity to the present, as an integral part of U.S. history.
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On this Bubbler Talk, WUWM's Teran Powell looks into this question: Did Marian Anderson ever visit and sing in Milwaukee? If so, where did she stay, as individuals who were Black were not allowed to stay in hotels in the past.
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Today, the nation celebrates the birthday and the life and activism of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement. The Marcus Performing Arts Center is honoring the Civil Rights figure with its 38th Annual King Day program to highlight youth in the community.