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During the pandemic, three immigrants in a range of situations find that family means the most to them.

On April 3, Shaun Robinson started his day like he always does. He ate his breakfast, took his dog for a walk and put on his uniform for work. He kissed his girlfriend goodbye, grabbed his keys and started his daily commute. When he got to his workplace, Robinson walked in and washed his hands […]

The newly owned business 6th Gear protested Governor Evers’ extended Safer at Home Order by opening the restaurant and bar in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student journalists with Media Milwaukee took home 12 awards in a statewide excellence in journalism contest, including first-place honors for public affairs reporting, freedom of information, breaking news reporting, feature writing, feature photography, and multimedia reporting. Media Milwaukee student journalists swept the multimedia category in the contest with two out-of-state immersion projects […]

Walking into Dorsia on a Friday night, the open sign is on, but the tables and chairs are empty. The Italian restaurant on Brady Street was forced to close except for take-out and delivery service when Gov. Tony Evers announced the Safer-at-Home order, which is now in effect until May 26. Many service industry workers have been laid off because of it.   The front […]

COVID-19 has been hitting the city of Milwaukee for over a month now closing businesses, canceling events and shutting down universities and schools. Many students at UWM that work on campus and off campus have been laid off due to the pandemic. And many don’t know how they’re going to be paying their bills without […]

A small rectangular slot in the wall revealed a masked face with eyes that meandered in and out of the frame periodically throughout the court hearing held over Zoom. The hearing covered a criminal complaint filed by the state of Wisconsin for the person behind the mask, Khari Sanford, 18, who supposedly murdered a UW […]

The UWM baseball team’s season was canceled one week before its first opening day at a new stadium, and now the team looks to next season. Because of the cancelation the NCAA has offered an extra year of eligibility to all athletes who had their seasons cut short because of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, some […]

Asian-American shoppers are stockpiling rice amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while other shoppers are hoarding and stockpiling on tissues and toilet paper. “It feels like people were preparing for an apocalypse,” said Dustin Her, an employee at Hmong Town Market in Milwaukee. “They keep coming and buying all the rice. We’re only left with the unpopular […]

On March 12, the NCAA released a statement from President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors to cancel Men’s and Women’s Division I basketball tournaments as well as winter and spring NCAA championships. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team was just getting their season started as everything comes to a complete stop due to […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student journalists won dozens of top honors in competitive regional contests for multimedia news and feature stories published in 2019. With journalism awards ceremonies and conferences cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, winners are being announced online. Society of Professional Journalists In the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence competition, UWM […]

The scenes at the polls during Wisconsin’s unprecedented mid-pandemic election were very different depending on where you were. That’s what a team of student journalists learned when they spanned out to interview election officials – including county and city clerks and poll workers – throughout the state on the day after the election. In the […]