Adrianna Reams was forced to grow up faster than she’d ever imagined. Now 17, Reams is the sister of Sade Robinson, a 19-year-old college student who was murdered while on a date in 2024. At the Aug. 1 sentencing of Robinson’s convicted killer, Maxwell Anderson, Reams told a Milwaukee County judge how the murder upended […]
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Posted inEconomy, Politics & Policy
Ignored for Years, Black Milwaukee Voters Hold Power in 2024
MILWAUKEE — When Diane Blaylock’s parents migrated to Milwaukee from Lena and Canton, Mississippi, they immediately went to work. Her father was employed by Rex Chain Belt, a manufacturing company that produced chain links for agricultural equipment. Donning a knit Green Bay Packers cap, she reminisced about a time when Black people had more opportunities […]
Posted inCriminal Justice, Policing
The Epidemic of Missing and Murdered Black Women and Girls in Wisconsin
Sheena Scarbrough had read the headlines about missing and murdered Black people in Wisconsin and across the country — but never imagined it would hit so close to home. On April 1, she spoke to her daughter Sade Carleena Robinson via FaceTime. On April 3 she found out the 19-year-old was missing. Scarbrough says she […]
Posted inPolicing, Politics & Policy
Police Shooting Near RNC Alarms Milwaukee’s Black Community
On Tuesday, Daquan woke up at 8 a.m. to beat the heat and play basketball with his friend at a park in Milwaukee’s King Park neighborhood, the heart of Black life in the city for nearly a century. But now the 17-year-old doesn’t know if he’ll ever step on that court again. There at the […]