Charlie “Whip” Davis and Johnny Washington honored By Frederick Dakarai This past Saturday, July 9 marked the Milwaukee Brewers’ 6th Annual Negro League Tribute Game event. As part of the Negro Leagues Tribute, the Brewers wore reproductions of uniforms worn by the Milwaukee Bears, the city’s 1923 representative in the Negro National League. The Cincinnati [...]

By Taki S. Raton “Mahalia” for me was definitely musically informative and historically stimulating,” says Milwaukee entrepreneur Willie Smith. Smith was among the audience members who nearly filled to capacity the 484 seat Friday, April 22 opening of “Mahalia” at Marcus Center for the Performing Arts’ Vogel Hall, 123 East State Street. This 30th – [...]

By Frederick Dakarai The breakfast event was an excellent forum of information and discussion of various business and political subjects and initiatives of the City, County and State. It was short (about an hour) and to the point which was great for a Friday morning. There was a crowd of about 50 business men and [...]

By Lynda Jones, Editor In the February 6, 2010 issue of The Milwaukee Courier, free-lance sports writer Frederick Dakarai wrote a wonderful feature article on a “supposed” future big league baseball player, Montaous Walton. Walton sat down with Dakarai as he had done previously with various area reporters and enthusiastically gave an interview where he [...]

By Frederick Dakarai I have grown to love the annual Negro League Tribute game by the Milwaukee Brewers which started in 2006. As a re-born baseball fan (2005), I have had the honor and privilege to meet some of the great players of the Negro Leagues and hear many of their hilarious and at-times disheartening [...]