Articles by Brooke Saint Louis-Hargraves

Over the course of a semester, three UW-Milwaukee students committed themselves to a three-month investigation into the deaths of Milwaukee youth. Their focus was urgent: children and teenagers, ages four to 17, all who were school-aged. While the team drew initial inspiration from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s “The Lost Class,” their project quickly evolved into […]

Daran Wiley is remembered as a protector with a big heart by his mother, Rashawn McKenzie. “He wasn’t just my protector; he protected his siblings,” McKenzie said. “I learned that it didn’t just stop there, that he genuinely cared about everyone around him. He wanted everybody to be treated equally and fairly, and he stood […]

Student reporters, Brooke Hargraves and Akira Quinn, discuss their project, “Revisiting the Lost Class” and why they chose to do it.

Milwaukee is struggling handling its lead crisis, with it devastating its most vulnerable residents and having long-lasting impacts on children. In recent studies, lead has been linked to criminal activity in Milwaukee. According to Amy Kalkbrenner, a professor of public health at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Zilber College, lead primarily affects children’s brain cognitive abilities and […]

Timothy Shum lost his son, Dave, to suicide many years ago. Shum is now the chapter leader of the Milwaukee branch of The Compassionate Friends, a worldwide organization for peer support groups to deal with the loss of a child. However, it took Shum time to end up in this leader position due to the […]

One of the first things Bryant Triplett ever cooked for his mother was a T-bone steak which he delivered to her when she was sick in bed so that she would eat something. Bryant Triplett was 14 when he was killed by an act of gun violence on Dec. 28, 2024, just three days after […]

The first thing Daran Wiley wanted to be was an astrophysicist, according to his mother Rashawn McKenzie. He even dressed as one for a school event one year. “He came home and he was like, ‘Mom, I want to be an astrophysicist and if you don’t know what it means, it’s okay, I can tell […]

Baristas at Stone Creek Shorewood talk about how their space acts as a third space and the importance of it in the community.

Alex Erickson shares how a song from his childhood has followed him into adulthood.

UW-Milwaukee Architecture major Josef Wertel describes his journey into enjoying and creating art.

Fans of Liam Payne in Milwaukee at the North Point Lighthouse are holding memorials to honor the star after he fell to his death on Oct. 16, 2024, in Buenos Aires at a hotel. “I set up the memorial because never knowing or meeting Liam personally, grieving was hard and confusing,” Kameron Jones, creator of […]

Hundreds gathered, geared up in winter-ready outfits, in Catalano Square in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward as the crowd kicked-off holiday celebrations for the 35th Anniversary of “Christmas in the Ward” on Dec. 6. “I saw a lot of smiles in the crowd,” Kerissa Karnopp, a UW-Milwaukee student, said. “It looks like everyone is having a […]