In partnership with the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, Mike has been working on building a faith-based constituency to address some of the ills of racial and economic segregation in our region - one of the most segregated communities in the United States. Below is a slide show providing an overview of this effort.
Click here for a list of resources on the issue.
Click here for a list of resources on the issue.
Resources on Regional Racial & Economic Segregation
- A series of articles and pod casts on the issue of segregation in MKE
- Harvard Gazette: A Series on the Costs of Inequality
- How Redlining's Racists Effects Lasted for Decades (a NY Times Article)
- 'Snob Zoning' is Racial Housing Segregation by Another Name - (a NY Times Article)
- "Racism is a Sickness of the Soul" - Father Bryan Massingale article in the American Jesuit Review
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Series and Resources Reflecting on 50 Years After the 1967 Civil Rights Marches
- The Brookings Institution - Remaking Economic Development: 5 Principles
- The Brookings Institution - Inclusive Economies
- The Brookings Institution - Opportunities for Growth (Sept 2017)
- Richard Florida: Confronting the New Urban Crisis
- Journal Sentinel Feature Article - "From the City to the Suburbs"
- Racial Justice resources compiled by the YWCA (an extensive list)
- White Debt - A New York Times Essay
- Why and How Capitalism Needs to be Reformed - Ray Dalio - April 2019
- What Happened to Us - a Journal Sentinel series looking at racism, poverty and employment in MKE through the lens of one elementary school class
- State of Black Milwaukee in a National Perspective (65 Charts & Tables) - Marc V. Levine, Center for Economic Development, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
