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The Hispanic Professionals of Greater Milwaukee recently received a $350,000 multi-year gift from Bader Philanthropies. Francesca Mayca Wegner, executive director of HPGM, details the organization's goals and strategies to advance Hispanics and Latinos across diverse professional fields.

Dinorah Marquez, founder of the Latino Arts Strings Program, uses her passion and expertise to provide training and fulfillment for Milwaukee Youth.

The Milwaukee Common Council is going back to the drawing board to look at the city’s aldermanic districts. The Common Council sided with Mayor Tom Barrett’s veto of a proposed aldermanic district map and will reopen the redistricting process for more community input.

These last few years, COVID-19 has disproportionately affected the Latinx community on Milwaukee’s southside. This year, Forest Home Cemetery is hosting a Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) event to celebrate the lives that have been lost. The event will include a community ofrenda by Latinas Unitas en Las Artes (LUNA), community resources, local vendors, food trucks, arts and crafts, and music and entertainment.

The stars hold deep cultural connections around the globe. All month long the UW-Milwaukee Manfred Olson Planetarium is hosting Culturas Celestiales, a series of events celebrating Latin American cultures’ connection to the night sky.