Civil Rights

In an exceedingly rare move, a Kenosha judge has ordered a new trial for a Kenosha teen convicted of sexual assault after several jurors stepped forward to express misgivings about returning a guilty verdict. 

Four hotel employees charged with felony murder in death of D’Vontaye Mitchell. Mitchell died outside a downtown Milwaukee hotel after behind restrained on the sidewalk.

The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner is calling D’Vontaye Miller’s death a homicide. He was held face-down on the sidewalk by security guards outside a downtown Milwaukee hotel .

Milwaukee plans to address racism and health equity over the next five years by focusing on challenges like housing, maternal and child health and public safety. Those steps and others […]

For a few days next July, Milwaukee will be the center of the 2024 presidential race as the Republican Party hosts its national convention. Many political scientists and commentators question […]

This year marks the 40th anniversary of a landmark ruling that reaffirmed the 1837 treaty rights of a northern Wisconsin tribe to hunt, fish and gather on ceded territory. In […]

More than 12,000 Afghan refugees escaped Taliban forces in 2021 during the withdrawal of American troops and were evacuated to Fort McCoy in Monroe County, according to the U.S. Department […]

Two Milwaukee women have been charged with hate crimes after police said they attacked a group of Muslim women in a park late last month. Miracle Reed, 34, and Payton […]

For the first time in nearly three decades, people who are incarcerated in Wisconsin may receive federal student aid to help pay for higher education. Their eligibility to receive Pell […]

After netting a Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction for writing a book about evictions in Milwaukee, Princeton University sociologist Matthew Desmond sought to tackle a broader lens: Why is there […]