Aug 05
JUNETEENTH DAY ISSUE
Black Resilience/Rising from the Ashes
Black Resilience/Rising from the Ashes
DISPLAY ADS
- SSMHEALTH
- MADISON COLLEGE
- QUARTZ
- MGE
- EDGEWOOD COLLEGE
- MADISON COLLEGE JUNETEENTH
- URBAN TREASURE
- UW-HEALTH; TMG
- UNITED WAY–JUNETEENTH; LARRY SAIN (STATE FARM INSURANCE)
- PACKER APTS.; TAKE THE SHOT
- MADISON LIBRARY
- WI ADRC
- CATHOLIC MULTICULTURAL CENTER; FOSTER FUNERAL SERVICES
- UW-CREDIT UNION; BUCKLE UP
- Backpage: Juneteenth
OUR STORIES
(Part 1 Of 2)
Graduation at Edgewood College: Still Dreaming Inspite of the Pandemic
(Part 2 of 2)
Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes: Leadership in a New Era
(Part 2 of 2)
(Part 2 of 2)
Centerspread:
The Art of Matthew Braunginn: Feeling Driven Abstractions
COLUMNISTS
Reflections/Jonathan Gramling
To be honest, I don’t think I had really heard of Juneteenth Day until Mona Adams Winston and Annie Weatherby-Flowers established Madison’s celebration back in 1989. The first time that I met Annie and Mona was when I was farmed out by the Madison Urban League to help make sense of the books of the Madison Inner-City Council on Substance Abuse – everything ended up being cool – and the Juneteenth celebration was using MICCSA as its fiscal agent. Well since they were legally a part of MICCSA, I had to review their finances as well and I remember Annie and Mona looking at me with a little suspicion. I didn’t blame them. And yet the three of us founded Kujichagulia-MCSD about 17 years later to independently sponsor the Juneteenth celebration and I was its treasurer. I guess they liked what they saw after all.
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