Treating people with dignity and respect can create healing moments.
Opinion: Community Voices
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: Let the heavy lifting begin for ensuring equity for Milwaukee’s Black males
We want Milwaukee to be a region where every young person has what they need to be healthy, safe and thrive.
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: Closing the funding gap for choice schools will build a better Milwaukee future
School choice programs have difficult choices to make because they get significantly less in per-student funding. Without a quality education, we are failing to set children up for success.
Posted inCommunity, Health and Wellness, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: Women and HIV: Ending the stigma starts with you
Getting rid of the stigma alone won’t end the HIV epidemic. And it won’t address the myriad other issues women face. But so long as the stigma persists, so will HIV.
Posted inCommunity, Health and Wellness, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: The fight against Milwaukee’s lead crisis should be driven by community interests, not financial ones
Organizations that may appear to support reducing lead exposure and eliminating associated social ills are sometimes only paying lip service to this idea to garner community support while accepting funding from powerful institutions.
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: Milwaukee has the rare chance to address the climate crisis. Let’s not blow it.
Milwaukee has a once-in-a-generation window to think big and work with residents to increase the creativity, opportunity and joy in our central city neighborhoods.
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: Why we can’t afford to sit this election out
Although we may not always notice, the justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court make decisions that affect our daily lives.
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: An open letter to the police chief: Surveillance and profiling are the not the building blocks for police reform
If the aim is to improve the “relationship” between the police and the residents of Milwaukee, I would encourage the police department to look inwardly and seek radical change in its investments in racist systems of surveillance and regulation.
Posted inCarousel, Community, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: Hope is the key to unlocking Milwaukee’s vast potential and moving our city forward
If the starting point for addressing any problem or challenge is naming it, here is what strikes me as some very important ones that are now so “normal” in Milwaukee that most people don’t even see them anymore.
Posted inCommunity, Opinion: Community Voices
OPINION: Here’s why Milwaukee needs a new movie palace to replace the Oriental Theatre
Despite many Milwaukeeans cherishing the Oriental Theatre as a place to gather and experience quality cinema, the Oriental’s name and design perpetuate racist exoticism of Asian, Pacific Islander and Middle Eastern cultures.