On the Block: Adjusting to Milwaukee | Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service
Ana Martinez-Ortiz
December 11, 2018
During the Sherman Phoenix grand opening, Taj Pearsall expressed his excitement over the visible diversity in the crowd. As a Brooklyn native, Pearsall grew up on a block inhabited by people of multiple ethnicities. When he came to Milwaukee, he struggled to adjust to the blatant segregation that still exists in the city.