Marching with Father Groppi: Looking back on Milwaukee’s Civil Rights demonstrations
In the summer of 1966, activist Father James Groppi & the NAACP Youth Council led a series of Civil Rights ...
Freida High’s devotion to the arts
In 1972, the University of Wisconsin-Madison hired Freida High Wasikhongo Tesfagiorgis as an assistant professor in the Department of Afro-American ...
Remembering UW’s Black Student Strike Of 1969
When Geraldine Hines arrived on the UW-Madison campus as a law student 50 years ago, she had to adapt to ...
The Legacy of Dr. James Cameron: Founder of America’s Black Holocaust Museum
(Editor's note and update: American's Black Holocaust Museum is reopening at its new location on Feb. 25, 2022.) In Milwaukee’s ...
Changing The Story Of Black Motherhood
For many years, Sagashus Levingston felt like she was faking motherhood. The women she knew looked nothing like the mothers ...
Camp Memories And White Privilege
At camp, we often learn to swim, paddle a canoe, make candles, and perfect our s’more technique. Elaine Maly learned ...
Edith Hilliard – Preserving History
March is Women’s History Month, and we celebrate today by remembering that women don’t just make history — they also ...
Edith Hilliard – Preserving History
March is Women’s History Month, and we celebrate today by remembering that women don’t just make history — they also ...
Bid Whist Ladies
Today we travel to Madison to meet the Bid Whist Ladies — a group of African American women who’ve been ...
Bid Whist Ladies
Today we travel to Madison to meet the Bid Whist Ladies — a group of African American women who’ve been ...