The Underground Railroad was a network of people, places and secret routes that helped enslaved people escape to freedom. Although stories about the Railroad often focus on former slave states, the ...

Angela explores one of the nation's oldest and most-attended celebrations of emancipation. Angela explores Milwaukee's Juneteenth celebration hosted by Northcott Neighborhood House, one of the ...

Charlotte Partridge and Miriam Frink have been called the “matriarchs of Milwaukee modernism.” The two visionaries founded the Layton School of Art, which would eventually become the spiritual ...

A new PBS documentary chronicles the life and influence of Howard Fuller, the former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent and voucher school champion whose decades of advocacy have shaped the ...

WUWM's antenna is on the WITI tower in Estabrook Park in Milwaukee. Wisconsin is the birth place of public radio, so it should come as no surprise that there is much love for it (and its many unique ...