Posts Tagged ‘Wisconsin’
Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – 45 Wisconsin Communities Protest
As video of George Floyd’s death spread across the US, protests followed in major cities — as well as unexpected small cities and tiny virtually all-white towns around Wisconsin.
Read MoreWisconsin still has Confederate monuments and symbols despite its history as a progressive state. Here’s what they are.
Despite Wisconsin’s allegiance to the Union during the Civil War, its loyalties to the Union and the end of slavery were not as clear-cut as Wisconsinites might like to think.
Read MoreRepublicans tried to suppress the vote in Wisconsin. It backfired
Despite a US Supreme Court decision not to postpone elections, Wisconsin voters braved the cold and coronavirus to elect a democratic supreme court justice.
Read MoreWisconsin GOP lawmakers force Colin Kaepernick’s name out of Black History Month resolution
White Republican legislators in Wisconsin continue to dictate who is worth of honor during Black History Month. Colin Kaepernick is deemed too controversial, due to his kneeling during the National Anthem.
Read MoreMurphy’s Law City a Leader in White Nationalism
Neo-Nazi group founded by George Lincoln Rockwell, still has its headquarters in New Berlin, Wisconsin. Martin Kerr, the present leader, stated that “We’re not at the end of the Rockwell wave. We’re at the beginning.”
Read MoreSegregated Minds: How pandering to a Waukesha constituency with propaganda perpetuates division
Segregation is a physical stressor as well as a psychological one. It traumatizes those who are segregated as well as those who plan, perpetuate and participate in systems of segregation.
Read MoreConservatives call for constitutional intervention last seen 230 years ago
Are we opening a pandora’s box by calling for a constitutional convention?
Read MoreBlack Suffrage: Slavery, citizenship, and securing the right to vote in Wisconsin
Descendants of slaves continue their long fight for voter rights in Wisconsin.
Read MoreHow Does a City Choose to Remember its Past?
Many Milwaukeeans are familiar with the 1854 abolitionist rescue of Joshua Glover, an African American who escaped slavery and found sanctuary in Wisconsin. Far fewer know about the horrific racial lynching of George Marshall Clark, a free black man, that happened only seven years later in Milwaukee. What was their story, and how have we remembered these two men?
Read MoreGeorge Marshall Clark
George Marshall Clark was 22 years old when he was murdered. He had been a barber, a trade he learned from his father, George Sr., who ran his business on Wisconsin Avenue. Clark resided with his friend, James Shelton, near 5th and State Streets. Shelton and Clark were arrested together, but Shelton escaped being dragged…
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