community garden

Cheri Fuqua is one of the people cultivating the community in Milwaukee. More than a decade ago, she created a community organization called The MiddleGround to nurture community, with a special focus on challenges facing Black youth, and she hasn’t stopped since.

Over the years Cherry Street Community Garden has grown to double its number of garden beds, add cherry and apple trees to line its border and add public art and infrastructure to make the garden into a true gathering place.

A garden can grow flowers and food, but as one Madison neighborhood is finding out, it can also grow community.The Brittingham Community Garden is located…

The high profile killings of two teenage boys have occupied headlines this week. First, there was the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. Now, in Milwaukee, the killer of Darius Simmons has been on trial. In both cases, the victim was a young black male, unarmed and confronted by a white man upset about crime.