There are so many ways to commemorate Black History Month in Milwaukee. We’ve created a list to help you.
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5 things to know and do this week in Milwaukee: Jan. 30 to Feb. 3
Donate winter clothing to MPS students; catch a meal during “Phobruary”; check out “Financial Fridays” at Coffee Makes You Black; meet some of the people who give grants to nonprofits; and attend Black History Month events.
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From the NNS archives for Black History Month: How ‘reforms’ expand our racially unjust ‘criminal justice’ system
For Black History Month, we looked through our archives to find articles, op-eds and personal essays that deserve to be revisited. That includes this piece written by Dr. Rob Smith and Barbara Miner discussing how the criminalization of Black people remains remarkably resilient.
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From the NNS archives for Black History Month: An open letter to white America from an angry Black woman with a bone to pick
For Black History Month, we looked through our archives to find articles, op-eds and personal essays that deserve to be revisited. That includes a reflection from Michaela Lacy from this past summer, reflecting on the legacy of her late uncle, Ernest Lacy.
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From the NNS archives for Black History Month: Milwaukee’s long, powerful history of Black and brown protest
For Black History Month, we looked through our archives to find articles, op-eds and personal essays that deserve to be revisited. That includes this history lesson from Antonio Ramirez on solidarity in Milwaukee’s legacy of protest.
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From the NNS archives for Black History Month: The Long March to Freedom
For Black History Month, we looked through our archives to find articles, op-eds and personal essays that deserve to be revisited. That includes this special project looking at the legacy of Milwaukee’s Open Housing Marches 50 years later.
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Gift of books benefits children ‘Next Door’
A group of Northwestern Mutual employees collected and donated more than 4,000 books to the Next Door Foundation in honor of Black History Month.