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While the Hmong community in Milwaukee continues to grow, some Hmong believe their culture is being forgotten, but a group of people are dedicated to preserving the culture for generations to come.
Speaker: Malia Jones, associate scientist at the Applied Population Lab Description: Explore the origins in March 2020 of Dear Pandemic, a group of scientists and health care workers to provide curated, comprehensive, and timely information about COVID-19 on social media. Track how the composition, collaborations and communications of Dear Pandemic have evolved over the past 14 months as the covid pandemic has spread, as control measures have evolved, as the disease has become politicized, and as vaccines have come to the fore. Get insights into the coming phase of “Pandexit” as ...
Black History of Wisconsin, Part 4: Still Rising SHARE This is the last of a four-part series exploring the history and struggles Black Wisconsinites have endured. Read MILWAUKEE — Growing up in Milwaukee, community organizer Angela Lang experienced “a tale of two cities.” Lang, the executive director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC), loved living in the predominantly Black Merrill Park neighborhood. “It’s where I feel at home,” she said. But she also saw how other people vilified her community, and felt the deep racial divides that existed between different p...
'Dear Pandemic:' Local researchers commit to COVID-19 facts Local women putting pandemic facts in your fingertips MILWAUKEE - Thrown into the deep end of the COVID-19 pandemic, at one time or another, many of us have found ourselves drowning in complicated information. One group of female experts has set out to change that -- transforming the way we seek and share facts. "The World Health Organization has deemed parallel to the pandemic, something happening called an 'info-demic,'" said Dr. Amanda Simanek, UWM Associate Professor of Epidemiology. Dr. Amanda Simanek In the uncharted world ...