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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
STEAM & Dream MKE 2023 American Family Insurance (AmFam) brought the STEAM & Dream National Summit to Milwaukee for a second year. This year’s summit was held at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) and featured motivational speaker Wallo 267. Wallo 267 spoke to a room of youth and adults about his life journey, changing his […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
