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Hip-Hop Week is a Milwaukee Original

Milwaukee Celebrates Hip-Hop It was recently a big week for music lovers in the 414 area code. Brought to the City of Milwaukee by Alderman Khalif Rainey, Hip-Hop Week MKE was full of performances, discussions, and ways to learn about health and financial literacy while commemorating 50 years since the genre came to be. The […]

Dame Dash Says Milwaukee is A Hidden Gem During His Talk at Hip-Hop Week MKE 2023

A Conversation with Dame Dash Hopefully you know it by now, but 2023 marks 50 years of Hip-Hop. Milwaukee is one of the many cities celebrating the genre, culture, and movement of Hip-Hop. Milwaukee is also the first city in America to create an official ‘Hip-Hop Week’ focusing on the power of Hip-Hop to help positively […]

Milwaukee Black and Brown News and Media Outlets The Truth and Copywrite Magazine Make Differences in Communities

Inaugural Truth Family Fest Milwaukee’s voices are getting louder with the help of Black and Brown news and media outlets like 101.7 The Truth, a Milwaukee talk radio station focused on highlighting Black and Brown voices. The radio station hosted its first Truth Family Fest at Riverside University High School in Milwaukee on August 12, […]

Writer Juel Taylor of “Creed II” and “They Cloned Tyrone” Surrounds Himself in Normalcy Despite Growing Fame

Writing and Directing Major Hits Screenwriter, director, and producer Juel Taylor has a hand in three major movies and films. Just three years after graduating in 2015 with a Master’s from the University of Southern California (USC) School of Cinematic Arts, Taylor wrote for the major motion film “Creed II”. Taylor credits his colleague and friend […]

Black Arts Fest MKE is the New Afro Fest 

A Reimanged Take on Milwaukee’s Afro Fest The annual Black Arts Fest MKE is a reimagined version of the African American World Festival which was on Summerfest grounds in Milwaukee for 30 years featuring music, fashion, and food. This year’s festival was held on August 5, 2023, and featured art, education, music, entertainment, poetry, dance, fashion, […]

The CNS Scholarship Fund Has Awarded $22K in Four Years. Meet the Final Recipients

The CNS 2022 Scholarship Fund Recipients The fourth annual CNS Scholarship Fund presented by American Family Insurance awarded three $3,000 checks along with laptops to young Wisconsin creatives and a student. The CNS 2022 Scholarship Fund recipients are Kearra Hartz, Abdelrassoul Ahmat Hassan, and Corrine Flowers. Hassan and Flowers were selected for the CNS Creative […]

Share The Vibes Connects Community and People Through Music and Technology

Text Messages to Festivals When you find a new song that you like, do you share it with someone else or do you keep it for yourself? Devin Jenkins’s love for music is so strong that he wanted to share it with others. Back in 2015 after graduating college, Jenkins spent a lot of time […]