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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]