by Jackie Reid-Dettloff, photograph by Melody R. Carranza The Mexican on Pierce Street. Bertha Zamudio smiles at the title her friends gave her when she first moved to Riverwest. From grade school in Mexico City to high school in Chicago to college in Racine to community organizing on Milwaukees south side, Bertha moved steadily northward […]
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Lenora Davis
by Tanya Cromartie, photograph by Vince Bushell Lenora Davis has a lot to smile about these days. As the school year ends and preparation for the fall begins, her Harambee Community School family is sitting on top of the world and beaming with success. This is the best year ever! exclaims Lenora Davis, Chief Operating […]
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Remembering the Roots of Locust Street Festival: Boulevard Killed! Locust Street Lives!
On June 11, Locust Street Festival turns 30 years old, making it one of the longest running neighborhood festivals in the city. The festivities started as a celebration of neighborhood triumph. City engineers had a plan to widen Locust Street into a Boulevard, bulldozing fifteen businesses and displacing over fifty families and individuals. In anticipation […]
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Carmie & Judy
by Jackie Reid-Dettloff, photograph by Vince Bushell This is a story about a circle anda straight line. The straight line is the pathbetween the 2900 block of NorthFratney Street and the public schoolbuilding three blocks directly north.The story begins fifty years ago whenCarmie Ciofani walked her sonPatrick to kindergarten at FratneySt. School on the opening […]
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Woodland Pattern: Summer Programs for Kids
by Mary Vuk Woodland Pattern is perhaps best known for sponsoring dozens of readings by accomplished poets and writers each year. But Woodland Pattern also schedules between 22 and 32 educational workshops every year and participates in many other educational outreach programs at offsite locations in conjunction with a wide variety of partners. Julie Strand, […]
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