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Send us Fan Mail When the Taliban took over Afghanistan, Maryam Durani, a woman's rights advocate fled to Milwaukee where she's already making a difference. Kate Avila, a teacher for 15 years, was forced to leave her profession to homeschool her children when the pandemic hit and is now part of "The Great Resignation" in America. Both women are finding meaning in "home&quo...

Send us Fan Mail Pandemic life has changed our relationship to home. For starters, the mental health “burden” means a combined 90 million years of people’s healthy life expectancy evaporated in 2020. But that isolation also gave our colleague, Chris Hays, motivation for making a bomb mole for host Mariano Avila, and to discuss his “historic timing,” as he’s moved around the country searching for h...

Send us Fan Mail Defining “home” through a pandemic lens is complicated, especially when you’re in a new city, like host, producer Mariano Avila who just moved to Milwaukee. But whether you’re an immigrant who learned to make the US home through PBS kids shows, or eating lasagna in Cher’s mansion, like our general manager Bohdan Zachary, or parsing out the difference between being Native American...

Send us Fan Mail The mayor’s alternative version of the Black History Month recognition goes up for a final vote, but not before an intense debate featuring a “stick to sports” argument, some awkward anecdotes and a surprisingly relevant migratory bird resolution that passed just a month before. As we wrap up this trilogy on the battle for Black history in Brookfield, our hosts get personal as the...

Send us Fan Mail The battle for Black history in Brookfield continues with part II of the story. The resolution written by the students enters City Hall and things don’t go according to plan. What ensues is an intense debate about the “appropriate” way to honor Black History Month. We hear rousing speeches from the high schoolers, a “timeless” comment from a council member and plot twist from the...

Send us Fan Mail The Black Lives Matter protests that emerged in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd inspired a group of diverse high school students to confront the predominantly white suburb of Brookfield to be a more inclusive community. And they did that by writing and proposing a resolution to honor Black History Month — a resolution that turned out to be too controversial. This is a...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode, we meet Alesia Miller,  the founder of Wisconsin’s first (and only) Black-owned kombucha company, Soul Brew Kombucha . Miller became one of millions to participate in the “Great Resignation” to pursue a new passion after twenty years as a music teacher.  Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode, we meet Alesia Miller,  the founder of Wisconsin’s first (and only) Black-owned kombucha company, Soul Brew Kombucha . Miller became one of millions to participate in the “Great Resignation” to pursue a new passion after twenty years as a music teacher.  Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail "I'm not gonna' be fixing these homes, Imma be owning 'em." For producer Alexandria Mack, her earliest understanding of ownership as a means of wealth building came from her father. With less than 7 percent of Black Milwaukeeans owning their homes, real estate professionals like Tia Cannon are working to help this demographic get their slice of the America...

Send us Fan Mail Let the journey begin. Speaking of…is a podcast by Milwaukee PBS and makes public media personal. This is our introduction. Think of it as a kind of user's manual for what you can expect to hear from us as we release a new episode every Friday.  Journalists Alexandria Mack, Mariano Avila and Scottie Lee Meyers share stories featuring our local friends and neighbors and explor...