Articles by Dazia Cummings

MILWAUKEE – The UW-Milwaukee Panthers women’s volleyball walked away with their first home loss, falling 3-1 to the Oakland Golden Grizzlies on Nov. 8. “It’s definitely frustrating but I have a lot of confidence in this team and I know we’ll bounce back,” team captain Kylie Wilks said. Despite falling twice last week in back-to-back […]

Coming from small-town Jackson, Wisconsin, population 7,000, to the state’s biggest city could have been a tough adjustment. But UW-Milwaukee freshman volleyball player stepped foot on campus, she knew she was in the right place. “The environment they had, I knew I really liked,” Miller said. “It was like the perfect city location I wanted.” […]

When Evelyn Higginbotham came to UWM in the fall of 1965, there were no black history courses, and there was no use of the word diaspora. The closest course to black history in her first years was a course on the Civil War taught by Professor Nathan Miller. He had a major impact on her […]

The Spring Fling Egg Hunt at Discovery World brought residents and children out to enjoy an egg hunt, exhibits in the museum, the lake and especially the nice weather. Dazia Cummings was there.

There has been controversy on college campuses around speakers and that clash between what we can say and what the constitution allows us. We always bump up against first amendment rights. Whether we are on the left or right side of it, or have colleagues with different political opinions, we must engage in civil discourse.   […]

Spring semester at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee came to a screeching halt this week after record-breaking low temperatures sent the city into hibernation and the campus community facing a rare streak of canceled classes. “It is not unusual for us to cancel classes once per winter — we’re in Wisconsin! But it is unusual to […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students awoke on the morning of Jan. 23 to a thick layer of snow coating the roads and sidewalks, but, to the distress of some, classes went on as planned. Running public transportation contributed to UWM’s decision to stay open on Wednesday, according to Michelle Johnson, senior director of Integrated Marketing & […]

The hometown people of Pluto’s discoverer still think it is a planet; 3 UW-Milwaukee students drive to Streator, Illinois to find out why.

The African Student Association at Marquette University held an event to showcase the students’ African culture. Dazia Cummings reports.

Cynthia Maduka spreads the word about the importance of family-supporting jobs in underserved neighborhoods.