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The 50th anniversary celebration of the Housing March on Milwaukee takes place on August 28, the same date that a ten-day trek begins to once again confront White Supremacy in a new generation. Activists from Milwaukee plan to attend the “March to Confront White Supremacy: Charlottesville to D.C.,” which will march over 100 miles to demonstrate a shared commitment to confronting white supremacy. The call is being answered from faith and community leaders to dismantle white supremacy in America by taking the demand for moral leadership to the nation’s capital. “We are uniting right now to reckon with America’s...

Photo by Gage Skidmore and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 President Trump pardoned former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, who was found guilty of criminal contempt for deliberately violating a federal court order that prohibited illegal detentions based only on suspicions about immigration status. The court order prohibited Arpaio from violating the constitutional rights of minorities by using racial profiling when stopping and detaining Latinos. The ruling stems from an initial lawsuit brought by Latino residents of Maricopa who successfully challenged Arpaio’s policies of racial profiling and illegal detentions. The plaintiff class was represented by the American...

The Social Development Commission (SDC), in partnership with the Medical Society of Milwaukee County and a coalition of supporting agencies, will present the SDC Summit on Poverty 2017, Dismantling Systems of Poverty from September 6 to 7. The SDC Summit on Poverty will be held at Italian Conference Center and is a key collaboration of service providers and subject matter experts such as policy makers, advocates, faith-based and community based organizations. Imagine living in the United States on two dollars a day, or the only family income came from donating plasma. After two decades of groundbreaking research on poverty,...

The Mayor of Madison has authorized the removal of city-owned Civil War monuments honoring Confederate soldiers interred at Forest Hill Cemetery. Mayor Paul Soglin made his decision public in an August 17 Facebook post, in response to the growing momentum in Washington DC and Southern States to take down Confederate statues. After the tragic domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, municipalities have accelerated their efforts to remove symbols of racism connected to the Civil War. “The removal of City owned monuments to Confederate soldiers in Forest Hill Cemetery has minimal or no disruption to the cemetery itself. There is...