Opinion: NABJ Had a Legitimate Concern About Stephen A. Smith — and Used the Wrong Tool
OPINION — The NABJ’s ‘Thumbs Down’ award for Stephen A. Smith turned a legitimate professional concern into a public spectacle. Marcus Hart on why the format failed everyone, including the people it was meant to protect.
This Weekend: Milwaukee Made Art Reception and a Festival for Book Lovers
Saturday brings an art reception with Milwaukee natives Tyanna Buie and Khari Turner at Gee’s Clippers, plus the Fall in Love with Books Festival at Mitchell Street Library hosted by Poet Laureate Shelly Conley.
PEAK Initiative’s Endless Summer Block Party Hits Tiefenthaler Park Thursday — Free Shoes, a Groundbreaking, and Mike Taylor
PEAK Initiative’s Endless Summer Block Party returns to Tiefenthaler Park Thursday, Aug. 20, with a basketball clinic led by former NBA player Mike Taylor, a free shoe giveaway, and a Milwaukee Parks Foundation groundbreaking ceremony. UNJ will be there.
5 Free Things To Do in Milwaukee This Week (Aug. 18–21)
From free community yoga to a back-to-school block party, here’s what’s happening around Milwaukee this week — straight from Monday’s UNJ LIVE.
This Weekend in MKE: TRUE SKOOL’s Summer Park Jam Brings Free Music and Community to Peck Pavilion
TRUE SKOOL’s Summer Park Jam Weekend brings free live music to Peck Pavilion Saturday — plus a full slate of free community events across Milwaukee this weekend.
Howard University Unenrolled 500 Freshmen Days Before Move-In. The Money Wasn’t the Only Thing That Broke Down.
Somewhere between March and July, more than 500 incoming Howard University freshmen thought they had a spot in the Class of 2030. By the last week of July, they didn’t. Howard confirmed that 502 first-time students were unenrolled for missing a tuition or financial aid deadline ahead of the fall semester, which starts August 17. […]
Black Unemployment Just Hit 7.5%. If That Were the National Number, We’d Call It a Recession.
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies put a number on something a lot of us have been feeling anecdotally for a year: Black unemployment climbed to 7.5 percent by the end of last year, up from 6.2 percent at the start, according to the organization’s “State of the Dream 2026” report. Read that […]
The Masculinity Crisis Isn’t About Weakness. It’s About Men Nobody Sees.
There’s a data point circulating in recent national research on American men that I haven’t been able to shake, and I want to lead with it instead of burying it in paragraph six the way a lot of coverage does. Men who report feeling that “no one really knows me” show up as dramatically more […]
There Are Two Roads for American Men Right Now. Only One of Them Leads Anywhere.
2026’s defining split among American men isn’t left versus right — it’s growth versus grievance. And the men choosing grievance are being fed a script that flatters their pain instead of resolving it.
The Recession Nobody Called a Recession — Because It Only Hit One Community
Black unemployment has climbed to 7.8% from a 2023 low of 4.7%, erasing an estimated $87 billion in household income. The National Urban League calls it a recession. Here’s why almost nobody outside the community is using that word.