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Jim Nelson, deputy business editor of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, paid a visit to the Journalism Club at UW-Milwaukee Wednesday night to assure students that professional journalism is not dying. “This is one of the most exciting times to be a journalist, ever,” said Nelson. “You might not work at a newspaper; you might go […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

UW-LaCrosse has one. UW-Eau Claire has one. UW-Stevens Point has one, and now UW-Milwaukee may be getting one too. Now, the Student Association (SA) has voted in favor of establishing a green fund at UWM. The green fund is designed to give students who have an idea about how to make the campus more sustainable […]

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A Columbus police officer will receive psychological support counseling and time off after fatally shooting and killing 13-year-old Tyre King, according to the Columbus Division of Police. Following a report of an armed robbery, officer Brian Mason, a nine-year veteran, shot King after he “pulled a gun from his waistband”, Columbus police say. The weapon […]

She was 14. She was dirty, she was hungry, she’d been running away from home for about a year, and she was 14. There came a time when she hadn’t eaten anything or slept at all in three days when a man who had taken her out to dinner in the past approached her. He […]

The dust has barely settled in Las Vegas after WWE pro wrestler/part-time MMA fighter/athletic circus freak Brock Lesnar returned from a five-year absence from fighting, and this morning the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has announced the company’s sale to WME | IMG. The sale comes at a price of $4 billion, the largest amount of […]

In a year full of musical star power, where some of music’s biggest personalities have been taking up the spotlight with their releases, it seems as though there’s an insane amount of impressive music getting ignored and thrown under the rug. Here are some of the best releases from the first half of 2016 that […]