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Yesterday’s Segregation is Today’s Separation

January 10, 2025

Kweku's Korner By Kali Free How can a unique and racially diverse city still be one of the most segregated cities in the country? Milwaukee’s deep rooted segregation has left a lasting impact … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Kali Free, Kweku’s Korner, Racial Segregation

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The Judicial Failures of School Desegregation in the United States (Part Two)

July 21, 2023

By LaKeshia N. Myers As we all take time to digest the recent Supreme Court decision that rolled back affirmative action provisions in higher education admissions, we must look to the aftermath … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Desegregation, LaKeshia N. Myers, Racial Segregation

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The Judicial Failures of School Desegregation in the United States (Part One)

July 14, 2023

By LaKeshia N. Myers I have always been fascinated with the colloquialism of “Midwest nice”—I think it is one that has clothed the Midwest with a sense of entitlement. Historically, when one … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Desegregation, LaKeshia N. Myers, Racial Segregation, School Desgregation

Rid Racism Milwaukee Program Reveals Impact of Historical Segregation in the Most Segregated City in the Country

March 10, 2017

By Danielle Miller Reggie Jackson from the Dr. James Cameron Legacy Foundation, Inc. and Rid Racism Board member gave a presentation of the systematic segregation from Milwaukee’s history and … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Danielle Miller, Racial Segregation, Reggie Jackson, Rid Racism

Is Ending Segregation the Key to Ending Poverty?

February 7, 2015

(The Atlantic) – Like many mothers raising children in Chicago’s housing projects in the 1990s and 2000s, Seitia Harris was afraid of the drugs and violence that were pervasive in the neighborhood … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Altgeld Gardens, Chicago, Poverty, Racial Segregation, Seitia Harris

Mandela offers U.S. hope

December 14, 2013

By Gloria J. Browne-Marshall Dignitaries and presidents, media stars, and celebrities from around the world converged on South Africa to pay their respects to Nelson Mandela, the warrior for … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Apartheid, Forgiveness, Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Gwen Moore, Nelson Mandela, Race Commission, Racial Profiling, Racial Segregation, Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Arnold Mitchem reflects on the Little Rock Nine, and questions Obama administration’s education plans

February 13, 2010

By Lynda L. Jones, Editor Dr. Arnold L. Mitchem, president of the Council for Opportunity in Education in Washington, D.C. and founder of Marquette University’s Educational Opportunity Program … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Arnold L Mitchem, Black History Month, Little Rock Nine, Lynda Jones, Marquette University, Pere Marquette Discovery Award, Racial Segregation

Little Rock Nine to receive Marquette University’s highest honor

January 30, 2010

Marquette University will confer the Père Marquette Discovery Award, the university’s highest honor, on the Little Rock Nine in a special ceremony Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 4 p.m. in the Varsity Theatre, … [Read more...]

Popular Interests In This Article: Awards, Discovery Award, Little Rock Nine, Marquette University, Racial Segregation

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