Our hope for the future is a new environment where food charity work becomes food justice work, transactional exchanges transform into relationships and collaboration makes way for community prosperity.
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OPINION: Don’t dilute my work. It’s explicitly Black for a reason.
Programs put into place to help everyone will always ultimately leave room for discrimination against Black people and/or just will plain fail to close the extremely wide gaps that we HAVE to close.
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OPINION: ‘Disappointing and enraging’: MPS isn’t doing enough to involve community in spending $506 million
MPS will soon receive $506 million that can change the fabric of our city. While MPS claims to want input from the community on how to spend these dollars, its actions indicate otherwise.
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OPINION: ‘I thank God because some people didn’t make it’: Saryea’s journey with kidney failure
From the marathon of dialysis treatments to the uncertainty of multiple transplants, Saryea Murchison shares her journey with kidney failure.
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OPINION: The real reason why critical race theory is under attack
Dr. Javier Tapia traces the history of critical race theory, as well as the recent backlash against it.
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OPINION: The ugly truth: Students need to see themselves in their country’s history even if it makes privileged critics uncomfortable
We need to be OK with having uncomfortable conversations about unpleasant topics. We have to recognize that there may not be any easy answers or fast resolution to societal and systemic problems. That doesn’t mean we don’t try.
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OPINION: Don’t say you love my Milwaukee if you are afraid of crossing the 16th Street Viaduct
To the people most offended by the idea of Milwaukee being called “terrible,” I have this to say: If you care about Milwaukee, you need to care about the Amani and Clarke Square neighborhoods the same way you care about the lakefront.
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OPINION: As Milwaukee gears up for its 50th celebration of Juneteenth Day, let’s separate fact from fiction
While it may be the 13th Amendment to the Constitution that freed African Americans, let us continue to observe Juneteenth Day as our day of reflection and freedom, acknowledging that we still have a long way yet to go.
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OPINION: How the March with Pride for #BlackLivesMatter forever changed me and my community
The March with Pride for #BlackLivesMatter brought hope that I had started to lose. It brought a sense of being proud to represent not only our LGBTQ+ community, but most important, my BLACK community under this beautiful umbrella.
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OPINION: Our community should decide how $400 million in COVID recovery money is spent. Period.
We cannot be committed to equity if we are not honest about how the usual decisions have furthered the wealth, health and opportunity gaps within a majority Black and brown city. Black and brown folks should be valued.