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Growing up in a white town, Sabrina Johnkins has learned to live with racism.

Monica Skipper tries to tolerate her parents’ political views, but it’s hard.

For Matthew Mussa, playing guitar is an escape.

Nyesha Stone has a special relationship with her little nephew.

When it comes to sports, Wisconsin is all aboard with the Green Bay Packers. Aaron Rodgers recently threw an amazing throw that earned the Packers the game. This throw not only made fans go crazy, it inspired professors as well, more specifically Paul Lyman, a Physics Professor at The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The newly opened […]

If you catch Andrew Zimmerman any given Sunday between September and February, you know what kind of Packer fan he is. Not just because he’s sitting in the same seats at Lambeau Field his family has had since the 1960s. And it’s not because he’s missed only one game in well over a decade, regardless […]

As part of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s annual Geek Week and Distinguished Lecture Series, LeVar Burton spoke to a diverse crowd of roughly 700 people Wednesday evening to show, through examples of his own work, that the power of storytelling can be used as a powerful teaching tool. Burton is known for a varied acting […]

Tabby Llama-Ortiz is a bicycle courier for the Milwaukee bicycle delivery service Flavor Cycles. Flavor Cycles works with various restaurants around Milwaukee that give customers who are ordering food for delivery to have their meals delivered via bicycle. This has been becoming more and more popular in Milwaukee, a city with a huge bicycle culture […]

For a map of Milwaukee’s best skateboarding spots, click here. The blaring punk music of Riverwest’s Fuel Café reverberated in patrons’ eardrums as they walked through the door. Rob Owens, a veteran of the skateboard industry, sits in line like any other normal customer. Once outside, the brisk October wind blows the smoke of his […]