The completed project will build off other neighborhood development activities which have occurred over the past 10 years, thanks to the tireless efforts of the late Welford Sanders.
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The 46th Annual Juneteenth Day Festival was held June 19 along Milwaukee’s MLK Drive, between Center and Burleigh Streets, attracting a crowd of thousands to celebrate the end of slavery that still lacks a national federal holiday. Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and the enslaved were free. In the early years, little interest existed outside the African American community for participation in the Juneteenth celebrations. In some cases, there was hostile resistance by forbidding the...
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The Milwaukee Urban League’s fundraising gala highlighted the organization’s nearly one hundred year effort to support the local African American community.
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After the morning mass and Civil War era Memorial Day festivities, the historic Calvary Cemetery Chapel was briefly opened for a rare public tour.
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Rozalia Hernandez-Singh is one of the five female artists who was hired by the Kinnickinnic Avenue BID to paint a large-scale mural along Bay View’s main retail corridor, with a work titled “Our Beauty in Strength.” The “Street Canvas” project is part of an overall enhancement initiative long the main street of the Southside artery, once the most frequently traveled road connecting Milwaukee and Chicago. The five commercial buildings selected along the mile-long stretch of Kinnickinnic Avenue, or simply KK as the street is commonly known, are as architecturally diverse as the area is culturally. Nova Czarnecki, Jenny Jo...
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Jennifer Anderson is one of the five female artists who was hired by the Kinnickinnic Avenue BID to paint a large-scale mural along Bay View’s main retail corridor, with a work titled “Fade Into Blue.” The “Street Canvas” project is part of an overall enhancement initiative long the main street of the Southside artery, once the most frequently traveled road connecting Milwaukee and Chicago. The five commercial buildings selected along the mile-long stretch of Kinnickinnic Avenue, or simply KK as the street is commonly known, are as architecturally diverse as the area is culturally. Nova Czarnecki, Jenny Jo Kristan,...
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