This evening we were with hundreds, if not thousands, on a Run/Walk for the Hungry at Germanfest at the lake front summerfest grounds. Our team of people was called “NonviolentCow.org” and started out with 14 members but expanded to many more. The money raised goes to the meal program at St. Ben’s and to the House of Peace, a place where working poor, homeless, disabled or newly unemployed can find comfort and services in Milwaukee.

The level of poverty and segregation in Milwaukee has increased dramatically since 2009. There are more and younger person’s being sent to prison only to be released to the streets and same neighbors after they serve their time. All the talk and, sadly, all the fundraiser cannot stop this climb of poverty, segregation and marginalization.

With the help of a friend who is a researcher at a local university I have put together a series of M.A.P.S., Milwaukee Area Poverty and Segregation. Although these maps show how the African-American persons are segregated, marginalized and impoverished in one area of Milwaukee, North Central Milwaukee.

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