Uniquely Milwaukee

April Harris organized Milwaukee's first ever "Peace Through Pie" event, which celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy of peace with pie, conversation, and charity.

Hedda Sharapan, producer and close personal friend of Fred Rogers, is heading to Milwaukee on Feb. 6 for a talk at the Jewish Community Center. Hear her thoughts on today's divisive political climate and how befriending the TV icon changed her life.

Hours Against Hate replaces hateful rhetoric by teaching tolerance

A vacant building was slated to become a massive liquor store at 21st and Hamptom. Hear how a Muslim owned and operated Milwaukee organization worked with city government to bring STEM education there instead.

After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Carla Echeveste was inspired to change the course of her life. She turned down an accounting job at her dream financial firm, and went back to school to study medicine. Today, she researches and advocates for equity on behalf of Milwaukee's Latino community.

Free AIRA service for the blind and low vision was made accessible at Milwaukee's airport a couple months ago. Now, the free service is expanding to include a number of Milwaukee County buildings.

The Benedict Center's SIsters Program conducts in-the-street outreach, case management and skill building for women who are in the sex-based trade. Their winter initiative, the warming room, is an overnight shelter where women who are on the streets can have access to a meal and a warm place to sleep at night.

When art programs began getting slashed across schools in Milwaukee, two hometown brothers decided to found a program for the many inner-city youth who were losing access to arts education. In 2012, Darren and Vedale Hill founded Jazale’s Art Studio.

For the last four years, a group of multitalented group of black Milwaukee artists have presented the musical 'Black Nativity' at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. Director Malkia Stampley talks about how she adapted her production for a Milwaukee audience, and why she wants to be in the audience.

The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC) is home to two legendary arts education programs - First Stage Children’s Theater and Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO). MYAC was built in 2002 so these two organizations could have access to professional rehearsal spaces. Together, they’ve both served the Milwaukee arts community for decades.

In this piece, we walk through the doors of Bloom Center for Art and Integrated Therapy in Bay View. Bloom teaches healing through art therapy.

The Latino Strings program has been a pillar of music and Latino culture at the United Community Center since it was founded in 2002 by musician Dinorah Marquez. In this community story, we hear from two of Dinorah's former students who started playing strings instruments in the second grade. Now at 21, they have returned as instructors for Latino youth.

This holiday season, we're tipping our hats to some of the great local organizations helping youth connect to the arts. In this story, we head to Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra and meet 17 year old jazz guitarist Kwasi Stampley, aka KStamp.

Grace Weber’s Music Lab has hosted locally and nationally-known music acts like WebsterX and Jamila Woods for an immersive music education experience. Once a month, high school students from the Greater Milwaukee area are invited to Radio Milwaukee’s performance space to participate after school for free.

A partnership between Kohl’s Cares and the Milwaukee Art Museum is bringing families into the art museum five Sundays a year for interactive and educational art activities.

Since 2012, a Milwaukee nonprofit has been helping students on the autism spectrum develop social and language skills, using a unique blend of art and technology. Listen how Islands of Brilliance co-founders Margaret and Mark Fairbanks launched the nonprofit and how they're changing lives.

Natalie Doherty is one of 10 Milwaukee artists selected by the Salvation Army to redecorate their red donation kettles for the winter holidays.

Liv Partenfelder is a sophomore at Pathways High School - a new school near downtown Milwaukee. During her freshman year, Liv took an entrepreneurship class where she started a non-profit charitable business.

Two years before her tragic shooting death, Milwaukee teenager Sandra Parks, 13, penned an award winning anti-violence essay. Listen local poet Dasha Kelly to read her piece -- Our Truth -- with a recording of Parks woven in.

Green Card Voices is telling immigrant stories the right way – with authenticity and allowing people to be in control of their stories. The organization visited Pulaski High School last week to document the stories of 15 immigrant students. The interviews were done on-camera and will be published online and in book format, where students will then become published authors. Listen to the audio piec...

Milwaukee is getting a new creative hub called the Saint Kate Arts Hotel. The hotel will serve as a place for people to spend the night in the city while also being exposed to Milwaukee's diverse art scene.

Thousands of children in Milwaukee are living below the poverty line, which means many will go without a proper coat this winter. But two Milwaukee organizations -- Operation Warm and Milwaukee Fire Department -- have teamed up to meet the need for 30,000 local families.

COA, an after school education organization, was recently awarded with a grant from Kohls to bring STEM education to students from low-income backgrounds.

Video Producer Vianca Fuster chats with Nate Imig about her video story exploring the growing sneaker culture among Milwaukee women. Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/_HsXFOFt2Ys

Marquette University Law School Professor Andrea Schneider reacts to the deadly shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA that claimed 11 lives on Oct. 27. As former board chair of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation and an active member of the local Jewish community, she sheds light on how people are turning their grief into action. Read her open letter: https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2018/10/...