Civil Rights & Immigration

Editor’s note: In February 2017, while marking African American History Month, President Donald Trump praised Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebody who’s done...

I nominate James K. Polk. We seem to be in the mood of late to reexamine our “great men.” Certain statues are coming down or...

For more than a month now, citizens have marched in the streets of communities large and small across Wisconsin. They’re demanding action to address...

Activist and community pressure on the Wauwatosa Police Department (WPD) is translating into real policy change for the department. From June 29-30, the Wauwatosa...

Milwaukee residents, thousands of whom have marched in the city’s 32 straight days of protest against police violence, were reeling after the arrest of...

More than three years after taking the case, a panel of federal judges issued a ruling Monday that reinstated limits on the availability of...

It was a shocking, bruising, terrible week. Worst of all was the horrifying attack on Althea Bernstein, a bright, loving young woman who was sitting...

The protesters who toppled Capitol statues, smashed windows and seized a tow-truck on Tuesday night have at least one thing in common with the...

Milwaukee County Sheriff Earnell Lucas provided an update Friday at the city’s Safety Building—the beating heart of Milwaukee’s criminal justice system—on the nooses found...

“First of all, if you learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really...