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Lisa Jordan and Patricia Nichols were both graduating classmates from the first @Promise Resident Training Program on January 18, and in the weeks since they already feel the positive impact that the program has had on their lives. An initiative of the Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM), @Promise invited its community of residents to participate in a three-week job readiness boot camp that explored the benefits of self-sufficiency, offered career assessments and planning, and prepared them for a successful transition into the workforce. “Many of our young people are perceived as ‘at risk’. I chose to...

Published by the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition (MMWC), the independent news source will be the first media organization dedicated to report news about the Muslim community in the state of Wisconsin. Following other faith-related media organizations like the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s Catholic Herald and the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, the Wisconsin Muslim Journal (WMJ) has been an overdue news platform for the state’s growing Muslim population. “WMJ aims to highlight the American Muslim experience, as well as offer Muslim voices an opportunity to be heard,” said Janan Najeeb, president of MMWC and publisher of WMJ. “The Muslim community in Wisconsin...

The Jewish Museum Milwaukee screened the film “From Swastika to Jim Crow” on February 1 to a full house, as part of a community engagement series supporting its new exhibit “Allied in the Fight: Jews, Blacks and the Struggle for Civil Rights.” Based on a book by the late author Gabrielle Simon Edgecomb, From Swastika to Jim Crow tells the little-known story of Jewish refugee scholars who escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to America, and when faced with anti-Semitic sentiment at mainstream American universities, were hired for positions at historically black colleges and universities (HCBUs) in the then-segregated South....