Uniquely Milwaukee

Milwaukee Art Museum interns designed a city bus as part of the program ArtXpress, to address an issue that impacts the city of Milwaukee. This year, the bus mural dealt with immigration and deportation. On one side the wraparound mural, there are two hands reaching towards each other with an ICE agent in the center. Salam Fatayer reports.

For ten years, Jim Brozek strapped his camera to his side while he worked as a laborer on Jones Island. In between cleaning and painting steel ore boats, Brozek would snap numerous photographs capturing the haunting yet peaceful atmosphere when working during winter layups. The images were taken from 1979 to 1985 and are now currently displayed at a storefront immediately west of Mo’s Irish Pub in...

YCAT started when a number of Madison high school students gathered to discuss the possibilities of a school strike to demand climate justice in the state of Wisconsin. On March 15, they drew a crowd of roughly two thousand amplifying their voices and their mission. Salam Fatayer reports.

What started out as The Spot, an afterschool space for students, quickly turned in Milwaukee’s United Community Center, a multigenerational agency that carries a magnitude of programs. There’s a hidden gem at the center. Located at the lowest level, you’re greeted to a restaurant called Café el Sol. The restaurant started off in 1983 as a program to help unemployed youth on food preparation and se...

If cities are measured by the quality of their museums, Milwaukee can certainly compete. Of course there are the big ones -- The Milwaukee Public Museum and The Milwaukee Art Museum two of the most notable -- but we also have several smaller ones scattered around. Visit the Haggerty Museum of Art in this Community Story.

Brigid Kinsella-Alba met Ryan when they were five years old. At the time, little did she know that he would later become her husband and they would create a school together. It was love that brought them together. Love for each other and love for Irish dancing. Salam Fatayer reports.

Murals are one way the public can access art. If we take a look at Milwaukee’s Black Cat Alley, we can see that it transformed the outdoors into an art gallery. In that alley, there’s one mural with a big yellow backdrop, framed with purple flowers surrounding a faceless figure of a mother with her children dressed in geometric designs. The figures symbolize a Syrian family who has recently become...

When you hear about the program Teens Grow Greens, you might just assume that teens are just planting greenhouses and growing produce. Well, you’re not completely wrong since that is a component but the main element that’s being planted is themselves. Teens Grow Greens is a nine-month paid internship program for high school students.

On July 19, Muslim women from all over the country came together for the third annual pageant, Miss Muslimah USA. The pageant was held in Dearborn Michigan and it aimed to break barriers and defeat stereotypes that surround Muslim women. This year, Rahma Mohamed, from Madison Wisconsin, was crowned Miss Muslimah 2019

On July 9, members all over the Milwaukee area gathered to take a workshop on mosaics at the new Arts @ Large Community Center. Arts @ Large is an organization that provides immersive art experiences for students from K-12. The mosaic workshop was the initial step towards creating a space where the public and community can incorporate art within their lives.

Five years ago, a Facebook post from Repairers of the Breach, a homeless outreach resource center, made its way to Amber Parham's screen. It was a Facebook status that made Parham aware that there are individuals who lack clean water. That realization ignited something in Parham and developed into Hydrate the Homeless MKE, a supply of water bottles to the homeless and people living in poverty.

University of Wisconsin’s School of Architecture and Urban Planning partnered with Near West Side to host the first stop of the national tour: Evicted. The free exhibit will be held at the Mobile Design Box till Sept. 30th.

The Craft for a Greater Good Project is a collaboration between Home GR/OWN, The Milwaukee Art Museum Teen Internship program, The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and attendees from the Furniture Society. Their mission is to create benches that will be installed at Victory Over Violence Park in hopes to represent the lives lost and inspire generations to come. Salam Fatayer reports on the im...

Earlier in June, Pridefest Milwaukee kicked off its celebration in Milwaukee with an impressive display of fireworks. But what most people don't know is that Milwaukee was the first LGBTQ pride event to feature fireworks in the county in 1995. 88Nine's Salam Fatayer goes behind the scenes and meets the women carrying on her father's tradition at Pridefest 25 years later.

For the fifth straight year, United Ethnic Festivals are teaming up with Hunger Task Force to collect food at the gates of evert major lakefront festival this summer. Learn about the Fests Feed MKE partnership.

Juneteenth is one of Milwaukee's largest outdoor summer parties It draws a huge crowd every year for food, music and a historical celebration of culture. 88Nine's Salam Fatayer asked attendees what the day means to them.

Although Ramadan is over, the lessons one can learn from participating in this month shouldn’t be. In order to understand what one can gain from this month, what exactly is Ramadan? 88Nine's Salam Fatayer looks back on the Holy Month.

She has dedicated her career to the Milwaukee LGBT community, particularly trans women. Meet this year's PrideFest individual of the year, Elle Halo.

Speaking at the Pridefest opening ceremony -- surrounded by state and city leaders -- Sheboygan Lutheran High School valedictorian Nat Werth finally got to deliver a speech he earned. Listen to his complete acceptance speech after receiving the Pridefest Valor Award.

88Nine's Nate Imig spoke with WI Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes on the grounds at the 2019 MIlwaukee Pridefest.

Erick Torres-Gonzalez just graduated from Ronald Reagan High School and will be heading to Harvard University next year. Hear what he has to say about public education and his experience with Milwaukee Public Schools.

Samari Price, graduate of John Marshall High School was named "Senior of the Year" at ceremony at Washington High School last week. She plans to study criminal justice and business management at Marquette University with her sights set on law school.

He makes a mean spring roll, and now he is giving back to his community every week -- with math. Learn how a Milwaukee entrepreneur is combing his love for healthy cooking with a series of free tutoring sessions for neighborhood kids.

The Milwaukee Bucks put together an extraordinary inaugural season at Fiserv Forum. The team posted its best record in almost 40 years and made the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2001. The thrilling playoff run united communities from all over the city and inspired a new generation of fans.   One of

There's no way to describe, to fully capture, the feeling of post traumatic stress disorder unless you have experienced it. And even if you live with it, explaining the experience in your own words can be immensely difficult. But a group of Milwaukee veterans are tapping into their creativity and confronting their PTSD -- using theater. L