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Send us Fan Mail As the federal administration continues to fulfill its promise to deport undocumented immigrants, intellectual sectors and millions of immigrant advocates are uniting in massive protests. Dr. Rachel Ida Bluff is with us to discuss the lessons that families at risk of deportation can learn to overcome the hostile conditions they are facing. Mientras la administración federal contin...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know central Wisconsin is one of the leading suppliers of ginseng in the world? We didn't either until we read Craig Thompson's new graphic novel, Ginseng Roots. Thompson grew up in Marathon, Wisconsin just west of Wausau. There, he and his family would serve as farm hands to the local ginseng growers. Ginseng is commonly associated with Asian countries such as C...

Send us Fan Mail On the corner of 73rd and Orchard in West Allis stands a building that used to be a place of mourning and loss. For many decades it was called Skubal and Slattery Funeral Home. For the last decade however that building has been a hub for creativity and joy. That's all thanks to Erico Ortiz, the owner of what is now called Inspiration Studios. Ortiz purchased the building in l...

Send us Fan Mail Parks are just built different these days. Gone are the days of a plain jungle gym with a couple slides and swings and adjacent soccer and baseball field. Nowadays parks serve to educate, entertain and enrich though all sorts of avenues and one of those avenues is art. At Wauwatosa's new park Firefly Grove, located at 116th and Gilbert, they have built a wonderful place for e...

Send us Fan Mail Throughout the 1980s, Wisconsin-based photographer Bill Lemke took hundreds of portraits of Grateful Dead concertgoers in parking lots before shows. Now, nearly four decades later, Lemke, with the help of his wife Carmen, tracked down dozens of those same subjects to once again take their photograph against the same tie-dyed backdrop.  The stunning side-by-side results will be par...

Send us Fan Mail Self expression takes many different forms and the inspiration to do so can come from the unlikeliest of places. For Milwaukee poet and author Bryon (pronounced Brian) Cherry, the focus of his poems comes from the little things. He writes about watching his daughter play with toys or being on a boat on a warm summer evening. People often take moments like these for granted but Bry...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode have an essential conversation about art, inclusion, and leadership. We're joined by Rachel Peric of Welcoming America to explore the integration of immigrants and refugees. We also sit down with Eduardo Arabu of the National Hispanic Corporate Council, who will share the key to Hispanic representation in the corporate world. And prepare to be inspired by the...

Send us Fan Mail The Making of Milwaukee: The Next Chapter celebrates the tenth anniversary of the history-making television series. It begins where the series ended. The new segment updates some of what has happened in Milwaukee since 2006. It looks at business, technology, sports, economics, politics, social issues, and of course, its people. For more information about The Making of Milwaukee, v...

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 17: Almost Yesterday Parades, Festivals, Ethnic Pride. New Ethnic Groups. De-industrialization Hammers Milwaukee. The City Reinvented. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 16: City Under Siege New Civic Structures and Urban “Renewal”. Poverty, Prejudice, Housing Discrimination. The Riot of 1967. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 15. The Exploding Metropolis After the War: a Baby Boom, a Housing Boom, an Economic Boom. Socialism Returns to City Hall. Suburbs and Annexations. The Milwaukee Braves. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 14: Hard Times and War Time The Great Depression. The Rise of Labor. Prohibition Ends. World War II Claims a Mayor. Milwaukee’s Industrial Might Goes to War. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 13: The Roaring Twenties America Turns Inward. Manufacturing Soars. African-Americans and Latino Premeros Make Milwaukee Home. Automobiles, Electric Lights, Radios and Movies. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 12: The War to End Wars Making the World Safe for Democracy, 1917. Anti-German Fever in Milwaukee. Socialists under Siege. Prohibition Closes the Breweries. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 11: Socialists at Work “Municipal Enterprise”. Honest Government and Civic Virtue. Creating Milwaukee’s Park System. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 10: Trouble in Town Dirty Air and Water. Dirty Milwaukee Politics. Socialists and Labor Rise Up for Clean Government. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 8: Machine Shop of the World Milwaukee, the Manufacturing Powerhouse. Enterprising Inventors, Mechanics, and Machinists. Workers Seek the Eight Hour Day. Rioting and Bloodshed in 1886. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 9: Greater Milwaukee Architectural Adventures: Mansions, Theaters, Offices, a Million-Dollar City Hall in 1895. Suburbs Rise from South Milwaukee to Whitefish Bay. A “Big Small Town”. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 7: City of Immigrants Ethnic Europe Discovers Milwaukee. A Polish Fishing Village and Milwaukee's Basilica. Irish, Italians, Greeks, Jews & Eastern Europeans Spice the Ethnic Stew. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 6: City of Industries Tanneries, Breweries, Slaughterhouses. Steam Engines, Machine Shops, Iron Rails. Plankinton, Pfister, Pabst, Miller, Allis. Milwaukee Grows Economic Muscle. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 5: Neighbors and Strangers Milwaukee becomes a Melting Pot; Irish, English, African-Americans. Ethnic Tensions, Abolitionist Fervor, and a Tragic Shipwreck. The Civil War. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 4: Here Come the Germans Waves of German Immigrants. Beer, Brats, Gemutlichkeit. Milwaukee, “the German Athens of America”. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 3: King Wheat Wheat Sows the Seeds of a Growing City. Railroads and Brash Byron Kilbourn. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail Chapter 2: New Frontiers Lake Michigan brings Settlers. Agricultural Plenty. Milwaukee’s Three Founders Struggle for Supremacy. Milwaukee becomes a City, 1846. Find more programs at https://www.milwaukeepbs.org/stream

Send us Fan Mail The Making of Milwaukee is a five hour, high definition video series that explores the intriguing people who came to live beside Lake Michigan: their politics, their triumphs, and tragedies, their work, and play. From civic saints to scoundrels, industrialists to Socialists, Potawatomi to Hmong, The Making of Milwaukee tells the story of our city. Find more programs at https://www...