By Hayley Crandall The City of Milwaukee is launching a new initiative in the Harambee neighborhood to help residents build relaxing natural environments on city-owned vacant lots. The Healing … [Read more...]
Residents Come Together for a Neighborhood Wide Clean Up
By Ana Martinez-Ortiz Although spring has been off to a slow start this year, the residents of Harambee neighborhood are not. This past Saturday residents and volunteers gathered for a bit of … [Read more...]
PyraMax Bank Pledge $1 Million in Foreclosed Rehab Lending for Harambee Neighborhood
By Dylan Deprey While taking a drive down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, the numerous amounts of opportunity that line the Harambee neighborhood are simply sitting behind boarded windows and … [Read more...]
Milwaukee launches Promise Zones Initiative
By Karen Stokes The issues plaguing the City of Milwaukee include: unemployment, poverty, car theft and violence. If the situation remains unchanged it will continue to leave a dark cloud of … [Read more...]
Riverworks Selected for 2017 Mini Block Build MKE
A neighborhood in the 6th Aldermanic District has been selected as one of the Revitalize Milwaukee 2017 Mini Block Build MKE locations, Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs said today. The Riverworks … [Read more...]
HaRUNbee 5K Walk/Run approved as part of Bronzeville Week 2016
The Common Council approved the HaRUNbee 5K Walk/Run to occur on Saturday, August 6 as part of Bronzeville Week 2016, and is intended to raise awareness and help increase healthy birth outcomes in the … [Read more...]
Milwaukee Biking Rates Increasing Among Communities of Color
By Mrinal Gokhale May is National Bike Month, but Wisconsin’s Bike to Work Week is in the first week of June due to weather conditions. With the many bike trails and paths such as Hank … [Read more...]
First Annual Harambee Back to School Park Celebration held at Clinton & Bernice Rose Park
With the Milwaukee Public School System returning to classes this week, and many other schools already in session, many children and families will be gearing up for the fall semester. In … [Read more...]
Reclaiming neighborhoods by creating art
MPT artery project presents free public workshops and parade Milwaukeeans are invited to take part in Milwaukee Public Theatre’s Reclamation Parade and Pageant for the Harambee and Riverwest … [Read more...]
The Harambee Great Neighborhood Initiative host resident input session
By Glinda Loving With the recent release of the Mayor Barrett’s 2014 Budget, and its spotlight on vacant tax foreclosed homes, the city at large is now learning about some of the issues that … [Read more...]