Kim Murphy

As we near three years since the start of the pandemic, we are learning new information about the mental toll from COVID-19.

This Milwaukee faith-based center helps young Black girls and single-mothers develop life skills.

Hawkins Hats and Things has been an anchor business along West Fond du Lac Avenue for more than three decades. But 81-year-old owner Mabel Hawkins-West said it is time to close shop.It’s one of the few places in <a href=“https://www.fox6now.com/tag/us/wi/milwaukee-county/milwaukee”>Milwaukee</a> that carry Sunday church suits and hats. Longtime customers, like Beverly Dixon, who shops there for her mother, are sad to hear the news.“I’m going to have to cry,” she said. “I’ve been shopping here fo…

Her first diagnosis was 14 years ago. She fought it and beat it. Now, the Nikki Panico, the executive director of <a href=“https://www.komen.org/community/wisconsin/” target=“_blank”>Susan G. Komen Wisconsin</a>, has breast cancer again.“I thought it was dead scar tissue, infected scar tissue,” Panico said.Panico said at first, she thought nothing of it – the irritated skin beneath her breast. She was more than a decade in remission, had five years of hormone therapy and both breasts removed. Pa…

The federal holiday Juneteenth will be celebrated on June 19. The holiday observes the date “the people of Texas were informed all slaves are free.”“It’s a dark side of history. It’s American history,” said Tommie Boudreaux, who is with the <a href=“https://www.galvestonhistory.org/” target=“_blank”>Galveston Historical Foundation</a>.Two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emanicipation Proclamation, Union General Gordon Granger was given the command to enforce Lincoln’s…

Milwaukee is home to one of the oldest Juneteenth celebrations in the nation. Those celebrations kick off Wednesday morning, June 19 with a parade.Milwaukee’s Juneteenth parade has been running for more than 50 years. It kicks off Wednesday at 9 a.m. at 14th and Atkinson. From there, it will make its way down Atkinson onto MLK Drive – ending at Locust and MLK around 11 a.m. But the celebrations do not stop there. The Juneteenth Festival unfolds along MLK Drive from Concordia to Center until arou…

“The power of pink is saving me and hopefully the power of pink will hopefully save others."

A redevelopment in Milwaukee's Bronzeville neighborhood is finally complete.

The Badger State is not home to any historically Black colleges and universities, but students are still being exposed to the culture.

“Our process goes back to 2015 when the NFL told teams they were going to take the draft to other cities."