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8-29-07

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I-Witness

Milwaukee’s Number One Community Column

"Droppin' It Like It's

by B. White

Holla!

One hundred nineteen thousand, five hundred (119,500) down 121,500 to go, I-Witness touching Black people all over the city of Milwaukee, and the world one event at a time.

Black People are the First Wonder of the World--

"Until the Lion writes his own story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."

--African proverb--

Thoughts for the Week

Friendships are like bank accounts you cannot continue to draw on them without making deposits.

--John C. Maxwell

In My Shoes

From "The Apprentices" to "The graduates"

Barbara White with participants in the welding program at Waukesha Technical College (WTC).

by Barbara White
Two weeks ago, Percy Dorsey of Martha Love Association B. LLC introduced me to Devery Sherman of TMC Commercial Drywall, a subcontractor working on a classroom expansion project at WRTP/Big Step. Read more

Inside This Issue

I-Witness
Keeps her finger on the pulse of your community!

Youth and Education

The Silent Kid Killer

WEEKEND Edition 8-31-07

"AND THEY’RE OFF!"--Two young men raced each other in...well...a rather unusual way recently during a neighborhood festival at the LaVarnway Boys & Girls Clubs in celebration of its 50th anniversary of service to youth and the community. (photo by Harry Kemp)

Noted activists warn rising racial tensions ‘Resegregating’ U.S.

by Hazel Trice Edney--NNPA Editor-in-Chief
Washington--More than 100 years since W.E.B. DuBois declared that the "color line" would be the key problem of the 20th Century, civil rights activists and race experts now say the problem of racial tensions are still so pervasive in the 21st Century that some have labeled it as a resegregation. "It’s undeniable that we are resegregating education in a dramatic way and we are also resegregating or becoming more segregated residentially than we were. And so those things are clearly going backward," says Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project of the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors racial hate Read more

Board Chair Holloway blasts Walker’s tax referendum veto

Milwaukee County Board Chairman Lee Holloway

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker

Milwaukee Couny Board Chairman Lee Holloway, along with Supervisors John F. Weishan, Jr., and Gerry P. Broderick, blasted Tuesday County Executive Scott Walker’s decision to veto an advisory Read more

Our Women
Our Treasures, Our Jewels

Quincy Tharps

by Patricia O’Flynn Pattillo
Quincy Tharps, RN, BA, MS, MA, Ph.D. These are her degrees: Registered nurse, Master of Science, Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy. What motivates so many degrees might be the question asked. Yet, to know Quincy is to expect continued inquiry, extended knowledge and the perpetual nuances that stimulate more questions and greater depth.

Today, our Best of the Best Honoree for the "Our Women: Our Treasures, Our Jewels," series is called Dr. Tharps, as she practices as a Nurse Psycho-Therapist. She splits her time as a Medical Anthropologist, teaching in the College of Nursing at University of Wisconsin- Read more

Quincy Tharps

Pulse of the Community

Question of the Week: "What can be done to make sure our students are made aware of fire safety procedures?"

Photos and question by Harry Kemp

Felicia Morris: "I feel we should let fire safety persons (representatives of the Milwaukee Fire Department) come into our community centers and our schools to teach the kids the importance of fire safety."

Felmers Chaney: "To have a fire drill in the school. Have a fire fighter come to the school and talk to the students about what to do when a fire happens. Then tell the kids to go home and share it with their families."