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Summer in Milwaukee with Urban Underground

November 17, 2016 by Urban Underground Leave a Comment

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  • The group passes through the Menomonee Valley Passage as Damion Harris shows off his leaping abilities. (All photos taken by Urban Underground youth)
  • On the way out, before stopping in the Menomonee Valley Urban Ecology Center.
  • In the crowd at Jazz in the Hood, which took place on 4th Street and Garfield Avenue.
  • Milwaukee-based Foreign Goods performs at Jazz in the Hood.
  • Students listen and ask questions as they learn more about their city on a tour of Milwaukee, one of several educational excursions they participated in throughout the summer.
  • The group checks out the post-renovation "restoration" of Reynaldo Hernandez's iconic "Mural of Peace" as Ni'Sea Thurman snaps a photograph.
  • Jessie Russell stands under the highway, by the Menomonee River.
  • The students learned to look at Milwaukee in new ways, discovering different perspectives off the beaten path.
  • India Smith and Shira Higgins explore the western edge of the Piggsville neighborhood.
  • At Alice's Garden for a Black Lives Matter event organized by performing artists and activists on July 15, 2016.
  • The sun sets at Alice's Garden.
  • Looking at Walnut Way's "Caring Neighbors Make Good Communities" mural.
  • Leaving Walnut Way's gardens headed towards Jake's Deli and the Juice Kitchen.
  • The mission statement for Urban Underground's Youth Rise Magazine.

Urban Underground is a youth leadership program located on Milwaukee’s North Side focusing on youth empowerment and social justice. Each summer, it employs students as part of the City of Milwaukee’s Earn and Learn program, giving them the opportunity to learn more about their community and ways they can work to improve it.

This past summer, the students worked together to create the first-ever edition of Youth Rise Magazine, a completely youth-led, digital publication that seeks to promote youth voices to expand perspectives in Milwaukee. In addition to working on the magazine at Marquette University, the students spent time exploring their city and engaging in a variety of community events at places such as Alice’s Garden and Bronzeville, while also participating in fitness sessions and redesigning the front window of Urban Underground. Returning Urban Underground members as well as new faces rounded out the group that stepped up to the challenge of trying something new.

The next issue of Youth Rise Magazine is in the works, and the students at Urban Underground are continuing to engage their community throughout the school year with their Youth Organizing Milwaukee sessions. If you know a high school student who would be interested in becoming an Urban Underground member, it’s not too late!

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