Drake Bentley is a Contributing Writer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He has covered sports professionally since 2019 and is an award-winning investigative reporter with a focus on team sports, racial issues, diversity and inclusion, and social interest, alongside broader themes in culture and society. His work has been featured in numerous outlets, including USA TODAY, Yahoo News, and the Wisconsin State Journal.
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By: Drake Bentley
The legislative record shows Tom Tiffany is one of the most anti-Black officials in the country and one of his opponents says it’s disqualifying for a potential Wisconsin governor. Tiffany was one of only 14 Republican congressmen to vote in 2021 against making Juneteenth a federal holiday. More recently, he reintroduced legislation to ban DEI […]
By: Drake Bentley
It was Jan. 15, 1970 — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday — when a young Army medic, Mike McGee Sr., and his platoon came under heavy gunfire from enemy forces in Vietnam. McGee was waiting in a medical bunker somewhere in the Vietnamese jungle when a fellow soldier was suddenly struck by gunfire about […]
By: Drake Bentley
Legendary Milwaukee alderman Mike McGee Sr. was an unmistakable force who often wore military fatigues around town, but there was also another Black council member that preferred a nice tailored suit. Marvin Pratt, the first Black man to serve as both acting mayor and interim county executive, was a Milwaukee alderman alongside McGee starting in […]
Legendary Milwaukee alderman Mike McGee Sr. was an unmistakable force who often wore military fatigues around town, but there was also another Black council member that preferred a nice tailored suit. Marvin Pratt, the first Black man to serve as both acting mayor and interim county executive, was a Milwaukee alderman alongside McGee starting in […]
By: Drake Bentley
Known to be one of the most outspoken and blunt humans that ever lived, former Milwaukee alderman Mike McGee Sr. sees a lack of leadership at the helm of local government today. The 76-year-old iconic firebrand politician, Vietnam War veteran and Black Panther leader is speaking out following a terminal cancer diagnosis last year. The […]
By: Drake Bentley
When the conversation turns to the giants who shaped Black Milwaukee, names like Vel Phillips, Joshua Glover, James Cameron, Hank Aaron, Gwen Moore and Mike McGee are often among the first mentioned. But any serious accounting of the city’s fight for civil rights, educational justice and Black empowerment is incomplete without Dr. Howard Fuller — […]
By: Drake Bentley
When the conversation turns to the giants who shaped Black Milwaukee, names like Vel Phillips, Joshua Glover, James Cameron, Hank Aaron, Gwen Moore and Mike McGee are often among the first mentioned. But any serious accounting of the city’s fight for civil rights, educational justice and Black empowerment is incomplete without Dr. Howard Fuller — […]
Legendary Milwaukee alderman Mike McGee Sr. was an unmistakable force who often wore military fatigues around town, but there was also another Black council member that preferred a nice tailored suit. Marvin Pratt, the first Black man to serve as both acting mayor and interim county executive, was a Milwaukee alderman alongside McGee starting in […]
By: Drake Bentley
Wisconsin Congressman Tony Wied is a special guest for a fundraiser next month for Wisconsin Assemblyman Shae Sortwell, an alleged child abuser who once said the Bible commanded him to strike his child with objects. Sortwell is holding a 41st birthday fundraiser on July 27, near Green Bay, as he seeks reelection. Wied, who is […]
By: Drake Bentley
Democratic candidate for governor Sara Rodriguez has previously accepted political donations from We Energies while crossing party lines to support giving the utility company a tax loophole. Rodriguez, the current lieutenant governor, took three donations from the corporate PAC of WEC Energy, the parent company of We Energies, totaling $13,800, between 2020 and 2023. In […]
