View fullsize Marquise Mays current film he’s working on “The Heartland” is a love letter to Milwaukee. (Picture by Marquise Mays) 2020 will forever be the year Filmmaker Marquise Mays finally affirmed that he can use his films as a vessel. Instead of letting COVID stop his creative flow, it encouraged him to finish his […]
View fullsize Last month, PEARLS for Teen Girls: a non-profit serving Milwaukee girls in 5th through 12th, put out a call for local poets to participate in their CHEERS! Fundraiser: Poetry Slam Edition on Nov. 11, 2020 from 6pm-7pm CST. The event will feature three local young women poets 18 and older that will recite […]
View fullsize Last month, PEARLS for Teen Girls: a non-profit serving Milwaukee girls in 5th through 12th, put out a call for local poets to participate in their CHEERS! Fundraiser: Poetry Slam Edition on Nov. 11, 2020 from 6pm-7pm CST. The event will feature three local young women poets 18 and older that will recite […]
View fullsize Students in the Mentor Program at Southern University. (Picture provided by Southern University and A&M College) Southern University and A&M College signed an 18-month Mentor-Protégé agreement with NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) program. Boeing, an aerospace and manufacturing company, will work alongside the HBCU to provide tactical business and technical support. The company […]
View fullsize Students in the Mentor Program at Southern University. (Picture provided by Southern University and A&M College) Southern University and A&M College signed an 18-month Mentor-Protégé agreement with NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) program. Boeing, an aerospace and manufacturing company, will work alongside the HBCU to provide tactical business and technical support. The company […]
MKE-ARJ and the community celebrated George Floyd’s 43rd birthday. (Picture provided by Robert Agnew Jr.) Since June, Milwaukee Artists for Racial Justice has used protest art donations and invested them back into the community. They call it direct reparations. This organization is a collective of artists that sparked from the brutal murder of George Floyd. […]
MKE-ARJ and the community celebrated George Floyd’s 43rd birthday. (Picture provided by Robert Agnew Jr.) Since June, Milwaukee Artists for Racial Justice has used protest art donations and invested them back into the community. They call it direct reparations. This organization is a collective of artists that sparked from the brutal murder of George Floyd. […]
View fullsize Kellie J. Sigh. (Picture provided by College Possible) After spending over eight years working with Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), Kellie J. Sigh has been selected as the new executive director of College Possible Milwaukee: a non-profit that helps Milwaukee students from low-income backgrounds get accepted into and graduate college. Sigh was recruited for […]
View fullsize Kellie J. Sigh. (Picture provided by College Possible) After spending over eight years working with Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS), Kellie J. Sigh has been selected as the new executive director of College Possible Milwaukee: a non-profit that helps Milwaukee students from low-income backgrounds get accepted into and graduate college. Sigh was recruited for […]
View fullsize Cameron Jackson. (Picture by Lara Harrison ) A generational growth is making its mark in the heart of Baton Rouge. 25-year-old business owner, Cameron Jackson of the shipping containers food court: Millennial Park, grew up with a strong foundation. Clarence ‘CJ’ Jackson, Jackson’s grandfather, owned and ran a barbershop on Florida Blvd. in […]
