Special Projects

After graduating high school at the beginning of the pandemic, UW-Milwaukee student Theresa Jackson faced obstacle after obstacle in college. First her grandma died, then she struggled financially, then her other grandma died. She felt guilty, depressed and anxious. “I felt like I was drowning, and I couldn’t come back up or like someone had […]

Caroline Jordan didn’t know she was pregnant until she was rushed to the hospital. Jordan had just gone through a major breakup and had been throwing up. She figured it was stress. When she was evaluated by her doctor, she found out she was pregnant by her ex-boyfriend.   It was the middle of summer in […]

From a stop on the Underground Railroad to the classroom, a museum docent, a teacher and a professor give their take on the importance of teaching the truth about the history of slavery in America. This train is silent. Sometimes it moves fast – other times, slow. There is nowhere to wave goodbye to family […]

Candice Marshall was on a study abroad trip when she had sex with a man she had known for a few days. When she found out she was pregnant, she went to a local women’s health clinic to figure out her options. “The pregnancy test put me in panic mode,” Marshall said. “I’ve never imagined […]

Traveling to places like California or Florida for beach vacations is common. Moving to the West or East coasts for warmer weather, small beach towns and coastal culture is understandable. But the recent uptick in wildfires, hurricanes and other extreme weather conditions points to two important questions: Given what we know about climate change, could […]

Meet Maggie. She trains about 30 hours a week and has been since she was a little kid. Her parents are her head coaches, and they have all traveled around the country competing. In this short documentary, Maddie Heimsch shows us how a level 10 gymnast prepares for her final meet season.

Meet Theodore Matlin, a skydive pilot working to get his commercial license. In this short documentary, Dominique Hamilton introduces us to this pilot who has his own plane and enjoys maintaining it and explaining the different parts his aircraft has.

In this short documentary, Henry Dunsirn brings us inside Lilliput Records, an independent record store that rose from the ashes of the Exclusive Company at 1669 N. Farwell Ave.