The Wisconsin Doulas of Color Collective works to combat Milwaukee’s high infant mortality rate through emotional support for mothers from its new home at the Body and Soul Healing Arts Center.
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Weekly walks in Lindsay Heights help build community
Lindsay Heights residents gather every Wednesday at 6 p.m. throughout the summer to walk the neighborhood, pick up trash and build community.
Common Ground tour highlights Sherman Park improvements
Common Ground has actively worked to improve Sherman Park for the past eight years, reducing the number of vacant homes from 300 to 60 and redeveloping 75 homes.
Harvest Fest offers ‘great way for community to come together’
As the new executive director of Walnut Way, LaShawndra Vernon helped to organize her first annual Harvest Festival on the 2200 block of 17th Street, which brought together community members, police officers and local businesspeople.
300+ Strong rally encourages unity, amplifies black voices
Black leaders say unity, strategy and stories are essential to changing the conditions of Milwaukee’s African-American community.
Social service leaders hope UNCOM summit generates new partnerships
Business, philanthropic, neighborhood and government representatives gathered to create new partnerships and share ideas for improving the quality of life for city residents at United Neighborhood Centers of Milwaukee’s first summit.
Resources available to non-violent felons at inaugural Clean Slate summit
Clean Slate Milwaukee is holding its first community re-entry and expungement summit to help non-violent felons access resources and find opportunity.
Residents warned about dangerous lead levels in drinking water
Representatives of Freshwater for Life Action Coalition (FLAC) urged residents attending a recent public meeting to purchase certified water filters to protect against lead-tainted drinking water.
First year of Sankofa MKE festival seeks to bring black Milwaukee together
The daylong Sankofa MKE festival in Washington Park celebrated black lives, music and culture.
Turnkey program combats foreclosure, but housing challenges remain in Layton Boulevard West
A home program in Layton Boulevard West seeks to provide affordable, energy-efficient homes by renovating foreclosures, but new foreclosures threaten to displace residents.
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