Riverwest Currents August 2018 Issue
Archive | Harambee Connection
Harambee Juneteenth Day
“On Thursday, June 19, 2008 we proudly commemorate and celebrate the 140th Anniversary of Juneteenth Day! Juneteenth Day is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the end of slavery in the US. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19 that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with […]
Cream City Medical Society: African Americans In Medicine 1895 – 2007
Cream City Medical Society has been around for eighty years, serving the health care needs of African Americans and advocating for their health rights.
Cistrunk Ordination
by Charlesetta Thompson On Sunday, Oct. 16, Rev. Dr. Terrell H. Cistrunk stood before a packed church, filled with members, family, neighbors and friends at her ordination service commissioned by the Presbytery of Milwaukee. Rev. Cistrunk has been pastor of the New Life Presbyterian Church, 3276 N. Palmer St., for almost twelve years. The neighborhood […]
Craig Wroten
by Yolanda White Like so many other community-based organizations, HOPI operates on a shoestring budget, love and passion for the community and a commitment to harmonic and prosperous living for its members. Wroten says that each block is uniquely different and he could spend a week or more on each block, solving problems and addressing […]