Listen to spoken word at Alverno College; attend a family culture night at the Gerald L. Ignace Indian Health Center; clean up a neighborhood in celebration of Earth Day; receive resources at a health fair; and take a Latin dance lesson.
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Finding transportation can be hard if you’ve been incarcerated. How one North Side church is working to fix that.
Invisible Reality Ministries is a church with a dedicated prison ministry and seeks to centralize services for those who have been incarcerated.
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NNS Spotlight: New Port Director Jackie Q. Carter serves as ‘a picture of the possibility’
Washington Park native Jackie Q. Carter is the first woman and first Black person to serve as the director of Port Milwaukee.
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5 things to know and do the weekend of March 10
Attend an open jam session at Arts @ Large; learn about Harriet Tubman and the city’s waterways; find out how gender violence affects the Native community; check out the wedding and quinceañera expo; and apply to be Milwaukee’s first Youth Poet Laureate.
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5 things to know and do the weekend of Oct. 14
Watch Ernesto Chacon be honored for his work on Latinx civil rights; attend a visioning session for ThriveOn King art installation; check out an artisan and makers market on Pierce Street; celebrate the quilt unveiling and sculpture garden opening at Adams Garden Park; and stop by the Harvest Art Fair in Harambee.
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Benefit to raise money for child victims of human trafficking
Alverno College students are working to support an orphanage that mainly serves young girls who were victims of human trafficking. They are “Hope for Nicaragua,” a benefit fundraiser for Casa Mision Santa Faz on Friday, Nov. 9.