Tommie Myles: The Second Victim of Jesse Anderson

On April 20, 1992, 18-year-old Tommie Myles and his girlfriend were filling out applications at Northridge Mall during the morning. The Milwaukee native was about to graduate from Shorewood High School and was about to start his first year of college at UW-Milwaukee. Despite racial tensions that existed in Milwaukee during the time, Myles’ family […]

Here’s What We Learned From the Jeen-Yuhs Documentary

The final act of Kanye’s documentary Jeen yuhs shows us the controvesarial producer, rapper, turned fashion designer, life from the past two decades. News outlets have called the documentary a heartbreaking ode to the old Kanye. The beginning of the documentary shows us a clip of a young Kanye West in New York in 2002. […]

“Before the pandemic, I didn’t realize how employers didn’t value employees’ rights.”

Maya Butler, 28, is a college-educated entrepreneur born in Milwaukee. She received her bachelor’s degree in criminology and law studies from Marquette University in 2015, and attended graduate school at Howard University in 2017. She realized long before the pandemic that the system in the United States was not built fairly, to benefit the people […]