A Celebration of Korean Culture and Cuisine at UW-Milwaukee

On stage at UW-Milwaukee’s Korean Day were two black belt professors who were accompanied by 10 students. The students themselves had their own colored belts: five red belts, three black belts, one green belt and one brown belt. Each belt stands for what level that student has reached in the art of Taekwondo. During this act, there […]

Luke Cage is a Bulletproof Black Man in a Hoodie

Harlem is rising. #LukeCage pic.twitter.com/Rg13hUpgai — Luke Cage (@LukeCage) September 30, 2016 Luke Cage has been unveiled on Netflix and has caused quite a stir with the streaming public, and mostly in two opposite directions. I’m loving the trend of filmmakers placing cultural “Easter eggs” in contemporary film, offering subtle or explicit confirmation that they […]

Black Lives Matter 101

A crowd of around 40 people from campus and the community gathered in the Union at UW-Milwaukee College to hear speaker Reggie Jackson propose the question, “Do black lives matter to law enforcement?” “All of us have been cheated out of knowing what our history really looks like,” said Jackson. Jackson is the head historian […]

Life as a College Student

Students in Feature and Magazine Writing were asked to write about their own lives. They had the freedom to take this essay in many different directions as long as it explored something personal about the lives of modern college students as seen through their own eyes. The following are some samples of what the class […]

Street Art Exhibit Premieres on Milwaukee’s East Side

Street art display, Black Cat Alley, held its grand opening on September 18 in the alleyway between Kenilworth Pl. and Ivanhoe Pl., south of North Ave. Artists, including UW-Milwaukee students, painted nine murals on the building walls of the alley. The exhibit’s founder, Tim Decker, said he wanted to use art to change a dull […]