A recently-released documentary, “Milwaukee 53206: A Community Serves Time,” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. next Monday (Nov, 14) at the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library. The hour-long documentary explores social issues that have helped to produce the highest incarceration rate in that Milwaukee area of any zip code in the United States. It tells the […]
Milwaukee’s Sherman Park – my childhood home: is it now a throw-away community?
By Susan Wolfgram, for the Chippewa Valley Post Milwaukee’s Sherman Park neighborhood, my childhood home, was at one time a legacy of diversity, inclusion, and multiculturalism in Milwaukee. But for the past few decades, chronic benign neglect has turned this community and other inner city neighborhoods into “throw away” communities. I would posit that we […]