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The global uprising against racist police brutality that ignited in the United States has spread to the Blackest continent of all, showing that the aftershocks of class struggle in imperialist countries are often felt in the regions they historically exploit and oppress.
By Diana Diaz-Granados, La Crosse Tribune The recent killings of black Americans that have sparked protests around the country are not anomalies: Before George Floyd was Eric Garner; before Ahmaud…
The COVID-19 infection and death rates in the Black community reflect systemic racism in all aspects of American society: healthcare, employment, education, VA benefits, home mortgages/credit, etc.
Despite a US Supreme Court decision not to postpone elections, Wisconsin voters braved the cold and coronavirus to elect a democratic supreme court justice.
A new study on childhood trauma provides compelling evidence for why childhood trauma should be a focus of Milwaukee and the country.
Racism is found to be a major factor in the high death rates and instances of chronic diseases in the Black community. This racism, in the form of Biological Weathering, can also have “deadly” effects on mothers before, during and after childbirth.
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Launched online in December 2011, this is, we believe, the first memorial to remember the many victims of lynching in the United States. Here we gather their life stories, say their names, and note where and when these thousands of men, women and children were terrorized and murdered.
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Dr. James Cameron, who survived a lynching as a teenager in 1930, founded America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1988. He dedicated his entire life to helping America realize its promise of liberty and justice for all. An early civil rights activist, he fought racial segregation in 1940s Indiana.
After moving to Milwaukee, Cameron published a memoir about his lynching and coming of age during the Jim Crow era. He traveled the country educating audiences at high schools, colleges, and other venues about the Black Holocaust as an integral part of US history, seen through the lens of these personal experiences.