It’s time for the Milwaukee Health Department to stop misleading Milwaukee residents with simplistic and scientifically unsupported claims about lead-based paint.
Opinion: Community Voices
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
Opinion: We must continue to fight for a better public school system in Milwaukee
This recall is about advocating to provide our public school students with a better educational environment, ensuring classrooms are conducive to learning and that students have access to nutritious meals and community representation in their classrooms and on the school board.
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
Opinion: How we can better support the mental health needs of Black men
Building relationships and fostering a sense of belonging can be crucial for emotional healing. However, many African American men may not have been taught or encouraged to develop these supportive relationships.
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OPINION: A Black man’s inside look at the RNC
As a young Black man, NNS summer intern Dakota Barnes-Rush seized the opportunity to intern with NBC News at the 2024 Republican National Convention.
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: The ‘guardians’ of public education remain silent
The Milwaukee Teachers Education Association has been noticeably quiet about MPS’ fiscal mismanagement.
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Opinion: Here’s how the Social Development Commission can make a comeback
If SDC can return after its “temporary closing” on April 26, it should return with a renewed focus on its original mission: research, advocacy and policy.
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Opinion: Clean water is a basic human right. Yet many of us don’t have it.
Although clean water is a human right, many people, and particularly children, are deprived from it in the USA and all over the world.
Posted inCommunity, Education, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: Milwaukee’s students cannot afford for MPS to (just) maintain and sustain: We need a plan
Families and taxpayers deserve specifics before agreeing to pay hundreds of dollars more in property taxes every year.
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OPINION: My trip to Cuba didn’t make me proud to be an American. We have to do better.
The week and a half I spent in Cuba I didn’t witness supporters of terrorism: I witnessed survivors of it.
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OPINION: How do we keep our neighborhoods safe? Three youths share their solutions.
Earlier this year, Safe & Sound hosted an essay contest and asked young people to share how to keep communities safe. Here are the winners and their essays.