by Dr. Charles Taylor | Sep 25, 2020 | Community Profile & Events
A new biography highlights the remarkable life of Reverend Archie Ivy who is the senior pastor at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in Milwaukee. He has been pastor there for 25 years and has made New Hope an integral part of Milwaukee’s central city. His church...
by Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison | Sep 25, 2020 | Community Profile & Events
In the midst of a highly insecure time, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Odyssey Project secured $3 million in gifts, a base for the future of Odyssey and its transformational work in breaking the cycle of generational poverty through access to education. Odyssey...
by Henry Verden | Sep 25, 2020 | Community Profile & Events
Mt. Zion Baptist Church is among the largest Black congregation in Madison with more than 500 members. It has served its community for 109 years. Taking up the reins of that congregation would be a daunting task for any pastor considering its legacy. The Rev. Dr....
by Doug Erickson, Article Courtesy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison | Jul 2, 2020 | Community Profile & Events
College of Letters and Science interim dean Eric Wilcots shakes a graduate’s hand during the winter commencement ceremony held in the Kohl Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on Dec. 15, 2019. (Photo by Bryce Richter /UW-Madison) Eric Wilcots has been...
by Payton Wade | Jul 2, 2020 | Community Profile & Events
The statistics are startling. An estimated 64,000 Black women and girls have disappeared in the United States without a trace, according to the Black and Missing Foundation. The urgent crisis of missing Black women and girls doesn’t grab the attention it deserves. The...
by Dr. Charles Taylor | Jul 2, 2020 | Community Profile & Events
December 1, 2009 Gov. Jim Doyle signed a measure at noon, while at the Northcott Neighborhood House in Milwaukee that will At the Northcott Neighborhood House in Milwaukee, former Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle signs a bill that makes Juneteenth Day a legal holiday in 2009....
