Maayan Silver
Maayan Silver is an intern with WUWM's Lake Effect program. She is a practicing criminal defense attorney, NPR listener and student of journalism and radio production.
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Milwaukee-based book influencer Cree Myles curates an account for Penguin Random House dedicated to celebrating Black writers.
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In Wisconsin, anglers can now catch and then release a prized musky in the name of environmental stewardship and still have a trophy, as taxidermists make realistic plastic replicas of the state fish.
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Gift boxes are having a moment due to quarantine, and boxes featuring Black-made products are soaring in popularity as consumers patronize Black businesses as a way of supporting racial justice.
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Following a Supreme Court decision that requires absentee ballots to arrive by the evening of Election Day, Wisconsin's parties are trying to ensure voters turn in their ballots as soon as possible.
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A new effort to register first-time voters is centered on hospitals and clinics in the hopes of helping disadvantaged communities get more representation.
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Even as President Trump and other Republicans claim mail-in voting could lead to fraud, local GOP officials are trying hard to convince voters that it's safe and easy to cast an absentee ballot.
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Wisconsin's April 7 primary is still scheduled to go forward even though more than half a dozen other states have postponed their primary elections.
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Milwaukee Bucks player Sterling Brown says he plans to sue after being hit with a stun gun by Milwaukee police, who confronted him over a possible parking violation.