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Voices in Union: with Reggie Jackson and Maria Hamilton - is a weekly podcast that focuses on the African American Diaspora in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It connects local concerns to national trends on social justice, and educates the general population on the historical context of those issues. The program’s purpose is to build understanding, with a message of hope and reconciliation, and to offer underrepresented voices a platform to be heard.

This episode includes a discussion about why communities of color have been adversely affected by severe weather over the winter - as a form of environmental racism, and how those affected suffer at the expense of affluent people, because financial gains have been a priority over family health.

Resolution Signing: Renaming of Old World Third Street to MLK Drive by Milwaukee Independent

Voices in Union: with Reggie Jackson and Maria Hamilton - is a weekly podcast that focuses on the African American Diaspora in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It connects local concerns to national trends on social justice, and educates the general population on the historical context of those issues. The program’s purpose is to build understanding, with a message of hope and reconciliation, and to offer underrepresented voices a platform to be heard.

This episode includes a discussion about dealing with the extreme winter cold, what fancy meals to cook at home because of public dining restrictions, remembering the childhood experiences of family meals, and some of the fun activities that today's generation of youth missed out on even before the pandemic.

Voices in Union: with Reggie Jackson and Maria Hamilton - is a weekly podcast that focuses on the African American Diaspora in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It connects local concerns to national trends on social justice, and educates the general population on the historical context of those issues. The program’s purpose is to build understanding, with a message of hope and reconciliation, and to offer underrepresented voices a platform to be heard.

This episode includes a discussion about the continued impact of the pandemic on Milwaukee’s Black community, and racist policies by Madison lawmaker’s over the COVID-19 vaccination distribution.

Amanda Gorman reads "The Hill We Climb" at Inauguration by Milwaukee Independent

Voices in Union: with Reggie Jackson and Maria Hamilton - is a weekly podcast that focuses on the African American Diaspora in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It connects local concerns to national trends on social justice, and educates the general population on the historical context of those issues. The program’s purpose is to build understanding, with a message of hope and reconciliation, and to offer underrepresented voices a platform to be heard.

This episode includes a discussion about the tragically historic events surrounding the Trump incited insurrection against Congress, and how police responded with complicity to the violent White Supremacists in contrast to their brutality against peaceful Black Lives Matter protestors - like the recent overreaction in Kenosha with the Wisconsin National Guard being deployed.

Voices in Union: with Reggie Jackson and Maria Hamilton - is a weekly podcast that focuses on the African American Diaspora in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It connects local concerns to national trends on social justice, and educates the general population on the historical context of those issues. The program’s purpose is to build understanding, with a message of hope and reconciliation, and to offer underrepresented voices a platform to be heard.

This episode includes a discussion about Maria writing a memoir about her life, and end of the year reflections on the many things that affected Milwaukee's Black community in 2020.

Voices in Union: with Reggie Jackson and Maria Hamilton - is a weekly podcast that focuses on the African American Diaspora in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It connects local concerns to national trends on social justice, and educates the general population on the historical context of those issues. The program’s purpose is to build understanding, with a message of hope and reconciliation, and to offer underrepresented voices a platform to be heard.

This episode includes a discussion about the impact of COVID-19 and how quarantines are affecting Black and White families differently, along with the never ending saga of Trump's election loss, exhaustion over the GOP's attack on democracy, and those aligned political forces trying to incite a race war.

Signing of Milwaukee County 2021 Budget by Milwaukee Independent

Voices in Union: with Reggie Jackson and Maria Hamilton - is a weekly podcast that focuses on the African American Diaspora in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It connects local concerns to national trends on social justice, and educates the general population on the historical context of those issues. The program’s purpose is to build understanding, with a message of hope and reconciliation, and to offer underrepresented voices a platform to be heard.

This episode includes reactions to the presidential election, and how national leaders and Wisconsin Republicans have stayed quiet and done nothing while people die, especially as the state continues to experience a raging wildfire of COVID-19 outbreaks.