From incarceration to community leadership—Milwaukee’s Andron Lane
Photos courtesy of Andron Lane Milwaukee entrepreneur Andron Lane, Sr. poses at the Wisconsin State Capitol, holding his 2024 book, A Journey of Awakening: Healing Through Self-Love. For Andron Lane of Milwaukee, 2024 was a very good year. Accolades and...
Olympian and rapper share stories to conquer Muslim stereotypes
Nine-year-old Zainab Sharifa-Mukhtar, who started wearing a hijab to school this year, came to the University at Albany Wednesday to meet two examples of who she could be when she grows up: an Olympic fencer and a chart-topping rapper. "My main thing was...
Proposed change to make green cards harder for low-income families to obtain
Rights groups say proposed public-charge rule change will adversely affect low-income families, people with disabilities. The first thing Alfredo* bought for his parents when he started working was a refrigerator. He was still in Mexico, in the city of...
Who Is Hussain? Memorial March brings a message of peace to Milwaukee
The Chicago chapter of Who is Hussain co-hosted a memorial march in downtown Milwaukee to inform the general public about Hussain Ibn Ali’s (R) message of compassion, social justice, and equality on October 13. Who is Hussain is an international movement...
New report details a century of Hollywood’s Islamophobia and its cultural impact
A new report from the Pop Culture Collaborative details depictions of Muslims on screen—what the entertainment industry must do to uplift Muslim narratives that do not damage the community. Artist and scholar Dr. Maytha Alhassen chronicles the past century...
Khashoggi case prompts mass withdrawals from Saudi summit
CNN and Financial Times join growing list of organizations to pull out of kingdom’s showpiece investment event. A high-profile investment summit in Riyadh later this month is rapidly becoming a fiasco as prominent businesses and media groups have pulled...
David Najib Kasir: Painting a Syrian identity with art to build cultural understanding
David Najib Kasir, a Syrian-American artist based in Milwaukee is best known for his contemporary oil paintings. Featuring common themes of family, love, life, and loss, he offers a look into his own life through his artwork. Kasir sat with the Wisconsin...
IRC Book Review: The Politics of the Veil
Elise Bellin, MLIS is the IRC Librarian and this book review is part of an ongoing series that focuses on a range of books within the IRC collection as a service to the community. The Politics of the Veil: Understanding France’s Headscarf Debates by Joan...
Program teaches McFarland students the skills for making positive social change
What started as an effort to bring in a guest author to look at diversity, empathy and marginalization evolved into something bigger that will continue throughout the year at McFarland High School. The Spartan Peace Project kicked off last Thursday with a...
Hanadi Bu-Ali: Surgery as a form of art employed to help cure people
Growing up as a sickly child in Bahrain, Hanadi Bu-Ali M.D. made it her mission to become a doctor and try to cure all the sick children she knew. That life journey led to Milwaukee becoming her home, and specializing in Oncoplastic surgery for breast...
