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29
Jul

New Jersey Black-Owned Drive-In Movie Theater Newark Moonlight Cinema is Open

  • Nyesha Stone / 6 years
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  • 3 min read

View fullsize Newark Moonlight Cinema is scheduled to run from July 24, 2020-Oct 4, 2020. (Graphic by Frankie Walls) Filmmaker Ayana Stafford-Morris premiered her film, “Why Is We Americans?” at the Lighthouse International Film Festival in Long Island, New Jersey. But because of COVID-19, the festival was transformed into something that’s often seen as a […]

27
Jul

Wave Chapelle Reflects and Reinvents in Preparation for New Album “Waves Don’t Die”

  • Dylan Deprey / 6 years
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  • 6 min read

View fullsize “Waves Don’t Die” is Wave Chapelle’s latest album since 2018. (Picture by Gracie Allen) In the streaming era, artists have unlimited access to an audience. While generating a buzz can happen overnight, only few artists maintain a respected career and memorable catalogue. When it comes to Hip-Hop, anybody can make a splash, but […]

27
Jul

Wave Chapelle Reflects and Reinvents in Preparation for New Album “Waves Don’t Die”

  • Dylan Deprey / 6 years
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  • 6 min read

View fullsize “Waves Don’t Die” is Wave Chapelle’s latest album since 2018. (Picture by Gracie Allen) In the streaming era, artists have unlimited access to an audience. While generating a buzz can happen overnight, only few artists maintain a respected career and memorable catalogue. When it comes to Hip-Hop, anybody can make a splash, but […]

24
Jul

You Can Buy Books on the Go With the Niche Book Bike

  • Nyesha Stone / 6 years
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  • 2 min read

View fullsize The Niche Book Bike can be found riding through the Bronzeville neighborhood and parked at the Sherman Phoenix. (Picture by Cetonia Weston) Three years ago, Wisconsin lost it’s only Black-owned book store and it was around the same time that book lover and author Cetonia Weston was thinking about opening up her own: […]

21
Jul

A Goodman’s Desserts Received Two Months Free Rent and Resources From New Partnership with Redeemer Lutheran Church

  • Nyesha Stone / 6 years
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  • 3 min read

View fullsize Alan Goodman. (Picture provided by Alan Goodman) Before this year’s madness, in 2019, owner of A Goodman’s Desserts, Alan Goodman was speaking at a luncheon at the Ambassador Hotel about winning Rev-Up MKE’s fourth competition. While talking about his experience, Goodman had no clue that someone in the crowd would soon become a […]

21
Jul

A Goodman’s Desserts Received Two Months Free Rent and Resources From New Partnership with Redeemer Lutheran Church

  • Nyesha Stone / 6 years
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  • 3 min read

View fullsize Alan Goodman. (Picture provided by Alan Goodman) Before this year’s madness, in 2019, owner of A Goodman’s Desserts, Alan Goodman was speaking at a luncheon at the Ambassador Hotel about winning Rev-Up MKE’s fourth competition. While talking about his experience, Goodman had no clue that someone in the crowd would soon become a […]

19
Jul

Secure Bridges is Giving a Small Piece of Safety to Kids Through Secure Kits Containing Hygiene and School Supplies

  • Nyesha Stone / 6 years
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  • 3 min read

View fullsize Secure Kits will be disbursed during the weekends of August. Starting next month, Secure Bridges—a non-profit dedicated to ending the local sex trade of children in the Milwaukee area—will begin distributing their Secure Kits, which are filled with hygiene products and school supplies for the upcoming school year. Since the school year will […]

13
Jul

Rebel Converting is Focused on Providing Materials, Resources, Safety and Fun for the Community to Help Deal with COVID

  • Nyesha Stone / 6 years
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  • 2 min read

View fullsize 60 bikes were given to Milwaukee youth. (Picture by Nyesha Stone) Back in March, Wisconsin Supreme Court overturned Gov. Tony Evers stay-at-home order. Since then, businesses have opened back up, people have left their homes and sometimes their mask. Around the country, the cases of COVID has seen an increase, especially in states […]

09
Jul

Community Member Seeks Opportunity to Open a Community Donut Shop on North Ave.

  • Anyiah Simone / 6 years
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  • 4 min read

View fullsize The City has gained this building through property tax foreclosure and has had control over it twice in the last 30 years. (Picture by Anyiah Chambers) The recent drive to “buy back the block,” and revitalize communities is happening right here in our own backyard. The idea of buying back the block is […]

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