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About 50 people from around the state gathered Friday at UWM’s School of Continuing Education to discuss water issues in Wisconsin and concluded that the two major concerns were the need for the government to implement more policies regarding water and the need to educate the public. One of the topics discussed was the emerging […]

Dr. Louise Cainkar gave a lecture at UWM’s Hefter Center, where she discussed the pre-existing racism towards Arabs and Muslims in America, and how the Bush Administration used 9/11 to gain widespread acceptance of the Islamaphobia idea. About 20 people from varying cultural and professional backgrounds attended the event.  Students, professors, anthropologists and members of […]

Alena Joling, a student at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, sits alone at the counter of a dark coffee house on campus, sipping her coffee.  She looks like actress Ellen Page, except with extremely short, bleached hair, Buddy Holly glasses, and sporting a mustard-colored tie. Underneath this hip exterior beats the heart of a devoted Cheesehead. “It’s the […]

MILWAUKEE – Approximately 70 people filled Curtin Hall on the campus of UW-Milwaukee on Friday to listen to Dr. Arthur Kleinman, an anthropologist from Harvard Medical School, talk about the struggles China has been through as well as their continued quest for happiness. Kleinman came to UW-Milwaukee to talk about his new book titled “Deep China: […]

Out of 2 million youth who experience homelessness every year, 1 in 5 identifies as LGBTQ. As the numbers begin to surface, so do the faces. Meet Josiah. Paint Josiah was seeing red.  On the weekend of Valentine’s Day, 2009, the seventeen year-old returned to his home in Milwaukee, greeted by the silent stare of his […]

Stephen Kimble always knew he wanted to be a firefighter. At age 15, while attending high school in Milwaukee and working to support his family, he decided to take the first step in pursuing his dream. Kimble said signing up to participate in the Milwaukee Fire Department’s Explorer Post 875 was a life changing experience. […]

When Dana Harbaugh served in the Navy as a lead aircraft crewman in Desert Storm and Desert Shield, he said he was “shaken into reality.”  The experience made him realize how important it is to keep our country free and to remember those who made it that way. In 2000, Harbaugh joined the Pearl Harbor […]

Devonte Hill was 6-years-old when an unknown person shot him in the arm.  While growing up in Milwaukee, Hill was getting into trouble for being involved in fights.  Many of his friends were part of gangs.  When he was 15-years-old, he decided to make a change by focusing on music and education instead of violence. […]