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Memories of the Black Excellence Awards
A Message from Lynda Jackson-Conyers For the past 35 years during the month of February, The Milwaukee Times has chronicled the history of outstanding local African American leaders with a gala awards banquet at the Italian Conference Center. This year, we were forced to cancel the annual Black Excellence Awards due to COVID-19. This pandemic has extraordinarily disrupted … [Read more...] about Memories of the Black Excellence Awards
Protests continued into third week to support George Floyd and police brutality
What started as a call for justice over the wrongful death of George Floyd, while in police custody, has turned into a nation-wide call to end police brutality, demilitarize police forces across the country, and pulling funds for weapons and military style training to other need areas. Here in Milwaukee the protests have stretched into its third week. Since the start of the … [Read more...] about Protests continued into third week to support George Floyd and police brutality