Articles by Madison Rios

Eneida Rios shares a special rice recipe with her granddaughter, UWM senior Madison Rios, and Eneida’s son Miguel offers insight on Puerto Rican hospitality.

Brady Jager walks through day-to-day life as a lab assistant and reflects on what UWM’s program in Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies means to him in his final year as a student. 

Christopher Perceptions is a Milwaukee native who plans to give the Milwaukee community access to learning about cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency and Bitcoin are relatively new concepts at 13 years-old, a pimple popping teenager according to Perceptions, created by the pseudonymous person ‘Satoshi Nakamoto.’ According to Perceptions, gold is God’s money, fiat is the government’s money, but […]

SALINAS, Puerto Rico — In every Puerto Rican municipal or town, there is the same set up: a plaza, a Catholic church and the city hall building, according to Samuel González Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican architect and mosaic painter. Salinas had a tan, cobblestone plaza with some stone benches placed directly in the Puerto Rican […]

Milwaukee is about 2,118 miles away from Puerto Rico. The heart of the Caribbean; Isla de Encanto. When thinking about it, a former Rust Belt city in the Midwest does not seem to have a lot in common with the tropical paradise. But migrants from Puerto Rico made sure to bring one important aspect to […]

Gold medalist Aly Raisman visited UW-Milwaukee on April 19 to speak about what life is like now that she has the time to focus on herself and heal from the physical and emotional demands that come with being an Olympic athlete.  Raisman is the third-most decorated gymnast of all time with six Olympic medals, one […]

Dr. Juchuan Wang discussed how the use of the term “China Virus” has diverted attention away from domestic failure during the COVID-19 pandemic.  May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, and in honor of this, panelists celebrated having the hard conversation of Anti-Asian bias in America, according to Dr. Chia Vang, the Associate Vice Chancellor in the Division of Global Inclusion & […]

A Brookyln Center, Minnesota police officer shot and killed an African-American man after mistaking her gun for her taser. On April 11 around 2 p.m. an unidentified police officer made a lethal mistake when she accidentally discharged her firearm during the arrest of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old African American man, according to Brookyln Center Police Department Chief Tim Gannon.  The officers did have bodycams and […]

Tenacious Boxing’s doors open up around 4 p.m. Kids rush into the building, holding gym bags that are half their size. When they first walk in, there’s a small front room, and just behind that is where the action takes place: the boxing ring. A few chairs are lined up for viewers, and athletes of all shapes and sizes are scattered […]

UW-Milwaukee coaches and athletes continued fostering a relationship with students in the Next Door Program by participating in the virtual read-along in honor of Black History Month.  From the tales of “Jabari Tries” and “Jabari Jumps” from the author Gaia Cornwall, to the piece from the two-time Kirk Prize recipient Derrick Barnes and his “I Am Every Good Thing,” athletes and […]

Kenosha County Judge Bruce J. Schroeder denied the motions to increase bail by 10% and issue an arrest warrant for Kyle Rittenhouse following Rittenhouse’s night out at a bar in Racine, WI.  Issuing a warrant for Rittenhouse’s arrest would be unlawful, according to Schroeder. Rittenhouse appeared in court on Feb. 11, 2021, to face the motions presented by the prosecutor, Thomas […]