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I wear his last name as a reminder of the last disastrous mistake that I made. I can still hear his voice screaming obscenities at me and the embarrassment and humiliation I felt as he did this in front of strangers on the street. There were plenty of times I should have left. Many women […]

My phone alarm rings into my ear at 8:30 a.m. three days a week, but rarely do I actually get out of bed immediately. Some days it takes 20 minutes, some days I just don’t leave it at all. I like to blame the weather outside my window, or how late I stayed up doing […]

Just when you thought the hype behind Pokemon Go dropped, yet again it is in the news. PokeStops, an essential piece to the game for players, are being taken away from Lake Park one-by-one by Niantic Lab, which has been working with the Milwaukee County Parks System. The removal has sparked argument between the consistent […]

Most college students who look for a job when they graduate relating to their field nationally don’t get one, but UW-Milwaukee students are dramatically exceeding that trend. Seventy-five percent of December 2015 UW-Milwaukee graduates are employed full-time (and 78 percent of those have a job related to their field), while 5.6 percent are unemployed, according […]

Sitting before a sold-out venue, hosted by the Student Association of UW-Milwaukee, Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza, who created the Black Lives Matter hashtag, made it clear why they were here. “We are fighting back against the tide of amnesia that this country is powered by,” said Garza. “If all of us are not free, […]

On a crisp fall morning, a number of UW-Milwaukee students journeyed to the Riveredge Nature Center where they ascended to the canopy of a sugar maple and red oak tree forest by climbing trees. Once students reached a perch some 50 feet off the ground, some engaged in casual conversation while others admired the fiery […]

The first in a three-part series on DiverCity Walking out of the Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, the last thing you expect to see is a monument to your right, perched atop a small hill. Drawing from many Jewish symbols, such as the menorah and six pillars of Judaism, the monument is […]

The police officer who shot and killed 23-year-old Sylville Smith in the Sherman Park neighborhood in August, sparking days of unrest, allegedly sexually assaulted a man and told him he “was the boss and there are no limitations on how [he] lives.” Sexual assault allegations against Dominique Heaggan-Brown emerged Aug. 15, two days after the […]

Every year, the Milwaukee Film Festival kicks off with a rocking party sponsored by local businesses that showcases the upcoming festival and brings together Milwaukee’s movie lovers. Since the renovation of the Peck School of the Arts building, the annual film festival party has taken place in the effortlessly cool renovated building which serves as […]

You’ve just been pulled over by the police. The officer approaches your vehicle and claims he can smell drugs in your car and demands you allow him to search the vehicle. You explain to the officer you’ve never done drugs before, but they insist, with more assertion this time, that they must search your vehicle […]

After watching and discussing Beyoncé’s visual album “Lemonade” this past Wednesday, October 12, participants learned one thing: “Lemonade” was made for black women. Angela Lang and Shavonda Sisson facilitated a group of roughly 30 people in UW-Milwaukee’s Inclusive Excellence Center in the Union, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. to chat about “Lemonade.” It is […]