Articles by Adrian Hurd

Black-owned businesses have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic causing many to close at an alarming rate. However, Adrian Hurd tells us about a few Black businesses in Milwaukee that have managed to weather through the storm.

Karissa Gering owns Spellbound Cosmetic Company located inside the Barberella Salon in South Milwaukee. She started the business a year ago and offers services such as barbering, microblading, waxing and eyebrow lamination. She graduated from Paul Mitchell in Waukesha 11 years ago and has been in the industry ever since. Gering has worked for a […]

Dozens of protesters marched through downtown Milwaukee in response to the charging decision in the death of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky. None of the police involved in the fatal shooting were charged. Adrian Hurd reports.

Dorsia on Brady Street is certified to operate without a capacity limit despite the state mandate for businesses to only be allowed to operate at 25% capacity. Adrian Hurd tells us how this local restaurant is adapting to Covid-19 regulations.

The Public Safety and Health Committee for Milwaukee county voted in favor of the ordinance which will allow police officers to write citations and arrest citizens if they violate Wisconsin’s “Safer-at-Home” order.  The committee held a virtual meeting on April 21 to discuss a new ordinance relating to the enforcement of orders to protect people from Covid-19. […]

About 1,500 people formed a crowd on the Madison Capitol lawn Friday to protest Gov. Tony Evers’ extended Stay-at-Home order, according to the Wisconsin Capitol Police.   On the day the order was initially supposed to be lifted, small business owners and people from small towns rallied together to express their concerns about the extended order which is now in effect until May […]

Walking into Dorsia on a Friday night, the open sign is on, but the tables and chairs are empty. The Italian restaurant on Brady Street was forced to close except for take-out and delivery service when Gov. Tony Evers announced the Safer-at-Home order, which is now in effect until May 26. Many service industry workers have been laid off because of it.   The front […]

Khari Sanford’s bail was set to $1 million for the murders of Beth Potter and Robin Carre during his preliminary court hearing via Zoom. Sanford, 18, and Ali’jah Larrue, 18, were charged with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide for the execution-style murder of UW-Madison Doctor Beth Potter and her husband Robin Carre. Their bodies […]

The scenes at the polls during Wisconsin’s unprecedented mid-pandemic election were very different depending on where you were. That’s what a team of student journalists learned when they spanned out to interview election officials – including county and city clerks and poll workers – throughout the state on the day after the election. In the […]

Across from Riverside High School, one of five polling places in Milwaukee holding in-person voting for the April 7 election, UW-Milwaukee student Abigail Klug watched from her apartment as a line formed near the school. What started as six or eight people became a several-hour wait by the afternoon, the line stretching behind the school […]

UW-Milwaukee students filled the Fireside Lounge in the union to do arts and crafts and learn about stress management. Adrian Hurd reports. Samir Murray, a UW-Milwaukee biology student, was sitting quietly by himself at a round table inside the Fireside Lounge in the Union. He took a red crayon and started coloring a mandala that […]