Madison365 Week in Review for May 29

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    Here are our most popular stories of the week, brought to you by the first-ever Women’s Leadership Summit, coming June 16-17. Registration is free and open now at https://www.wileadershipsummit.com/womensleadershipsummit!

    FoxValley365 has joined the NEW News Lab, a Microsoft-funded collaboration among six newsrooms to provide in-depth coverage of important issues in Northeast Wisconsin.

     

     

    For that project, we are covering Brown County’s recent declaration that racism is a public health crisis. Milwaukee County was one of the first to make that declaration in 2018. Now, more than 170 jurisdictions across the country have done so. An ad-hoc committee on racial equity has begun two years of work to address that crisis.

    Forward Madison gave Union Omaha its first loss of the season, winning 1-0 at Breese Stevens Field.

     

     

     

    A new program from LIFT Dane will help clean up arrest and court records.

     

     

     

    Beyond the Page’s new Ripple Project is seeking people of color to present humanities programming in Dane County’s libraries, and has money to pay them.

     

     

    Just Dane is launching Just Hospitality, a training program to help people transition out of homelessness or incarceration and into a restaurant career.

     

     

    The Latino Chamber of Commerce honored Gladis Benavides with the Legacy Award on Friday.

     

     

     

    MMoCA will host AMENDS, a public art installation aimed at eradicating racism, this summer.

     

     

     

    Madison’s annual Juneteenth celebration will be a weeklong series of events culminating June 19 in Penn Park.

     

     

     

    Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett announced that he will seek election to a full term in 2022.

     

     

     

    About 30 activists protested Sunday to call for the release of Jimmie Joshua after deputies broke his hip and left him in an isolation cell for 15 hours.

     

     

    A new Wisconsin Latinx History Collective aims to shine a light on the century-long history of Latinx people in Wisconsin.

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