Civil Rights

Milwaukee plans to address racism and health equity over the next five years by focusing on challenges like housing, maternal and child health and public safety. Those steps and others were outlined in the newest iteration of the MKE Elevate Community Health Improvement Plan announced Thursday by the City of Milwaukee Health Department. Report authors…

For a few days next July, Milwaukee will be the center of the 2024 presidential race as the Republican Party hosts its national convention. Many political scientists and commentators question whether conventions or debates do much to sway voters. But that hasn’t always been the case. Seventy-five years ago, a Midwest mayor gave an electrifying…

This year marks the 40th anniversary of a landmark ruling that reaffirmed the 1837 treaty rights of a northern Wisconsin tribe to hunt, fish and gather on ceded territory. In 1983, two brothers from the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Fred and Mike Tribble, were arrested for spearfishing outside the boundaries of…

More than 12,000 Afghan refugees escaped Taliban forces in 2021 during the withdrawal of American troops and were evacuated to Fort McCoy in Monroe County, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. Two years later, the work of resettling Afghan refugees continues in Wisconsin and around the country. On Wisconsin Public Radio’s “The Morning Show,”…

Two Milwaukee women have been charged with hate crimes after police said they attacked a group of Muslim women in a park late last month. Miracle Reed, 34, and Payton Smith, 30, face one felony and five misdemeanor charges after allegedly attacking the women on July 30 in Cathedral Square Park in downtown Milwaukee. Four…

For the first time in nearly three decades, people who are incarcerated in Wisconsin may receive federal student aid to help pay for higher education. Their eligibility to receive Pell Grants was restored this summer after Congress passed the Free Application for Federal Student Aid Simplification Act in December. Pell Grants are awarded to students…

After netting a Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for writing a book about evictions in Milwaukee, Princeton University sociologist Matthew Desmond sought to tackle a broader lens: Why is there so much poverty in a nation as wealthy as the United States? In his new book releasesd this year, “Poverty, by America,” the University of…

A student in the Rhinelander School District may have their grades adjusted after missing part of the 2021-22 academic year while facing harassment for their nonbinary gender identity. The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday announced the resolution of a sex-based harassment investigation in the district. It found that the nonbinary student faced harassment in…

A Dane County judge will not appoint a special prosecutor in the killing of Anthony Robinson, an unarmed Black 19-year-old who was shot by a white Madison police officer in March 2015. Judge Stephen Ehlke dismissed a petition brought by Robinson’s grandmother, Sharon Irwin-Henry, a court order signed Friday shows. In her request filed last…

Around noon on an overcast April Election Day, dozens of canvassers returned to a second-floor conference room of the Greater Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church on Milwaukee’s North Side. They were dressed for the weather: Layers, winter hats and a few with ponchos. Within an hour, they would be back out in neighborhoods and knocking…