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Healthy food accessibility intersects every aspect of social and economic prosperity in Milwaukee, and Margaret Mittelstadt has worked for years to connect local communities back to the farm in an effort to help the public rediscover what was lost in the modernization of agriculture and urbanization daily life. | Q&A with Margaret Mittelstadt Milwaukee Independent: What has some of your work been regarding the local food movement and healthy food accessibility? Margaret Mittelstadt: Working for the Outpost Natural Foods Cooperative has allowed me to connect to the local food movement and healthy food accessibility in myriad ways. I see my...

As Head Griot of America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) and a voice for the silent generations affected by Milwaukee’s history of segregation, Reggie Jackson shares inconvenient truths to educate the public about the need for Economic Rights to finish what the Civil Rights movement started decades ago. | Q&A with Reggie Jackson Milwaukee Independent: Who were some of your role models growing up? Reggie Jackson: My primary positive role models were both my mother and grandmother. They were hard working women who raised my brother and I to be respectful. Milwaukee Independent: Why has there been a general lack of knowledge about...