Navigating Life’s Storms: From Community Challenges to Personal Triumphs

Good morning. Welcome to Community Voice. I'm your host Keith Parris. I want to thank everybody for joining us this morning. Good morning, Clark Kent. Who you with? You got the poor Lees? Yeah, you know. Okay. And what up, Ride Out? Bishop, chairman of the board. How you doing? Man, I was out. We went out. We went out. I went out last night, went to the store and

I knew it was bad, but we were spared. We had no power, we had no, we had no, there was no power outage. But when I drove to Sendix on North Avenue, the powers out there, powers out on North Avenue, looks like it started about 76th Street all the way. I know when I got to Swan, because they end up taking the Menominee Parkway Park.

you know I know you're talking about no lights no lights and then when I got to the Metcalf on 7 on 68th and state they had power just to give you an update they are removing that tree limb on Sherman and Fond du Lac but there was another one as I was coming up 60th Street so if you're doing 60th Street

and you're trying to do it south when you get to Burla you're gonna have to turn because there's a limb down on the west side of the street that's blocking the street so yeah I mean it was yeah that went last night I slept with all that yeah that was crazy let me also um to my guy who um

Text right out tell them bring me ginger ale But to my guy who you know saying your coffee Was cold. I hope it was hot because Michelle was on fire. So I don't know give us an update on where your coffee This morning Yes, so it was

And I guess for the folks who were at the Brewer's game last night, that was probably one of the safest places to be, even though they said there was some water that rain came down. And that's when I saw the rain came down sheets. And then about 730 it had passed, but the damage had been done. I know a couple of years ago, there's something called a straight line win. And I had never seen that before, but we have a huge tree in front of our home.

and I saw that tree bend. I mean, I saw it bend. That's how strong the wind was. So, and all those folks, you know, they kind of got caught out there in it. That's always crazy because sometimes these fronts will come through and you're already out. Boom. You're trying to get back to where you're trying to get back to. But here's the other piece of it. There's very few places. If any place you can go where there is in weather.

So they're all cleaning up now and I think when we saw the updates about 11,000 people in Milwaukee County who still don't have power. Good thing is today will not be an impressively hot day. I know we had two years ago, three years ago when we had the windstorm and we lost power for two and a half days. It was getting hot. It was crazy. It was getting hot.

It was getting hot. So I'm so glad that we got this tree cut down the backyard yard because there's just one big old nail. It had already had a crack in it. I just needed one good wind storm. It was a tour of the back porch, probably the back part of our house. That's I'm glad we got it cut down this year. And you know, last week they were dealing with the storms that hit.

Outside of Chicago. Yeah, and that was the West suburbs Yeah, and as a matter of fact one of the people who was performing at a harbor fest She was talking about she had no power when we did the interview so man, you don't miss it until it's gone So so did it rang in Kenosha that? Yeah, they ended up getting it was the way it came down was coming from the Northwest

that front came in. So I'm sure, uh, were you talking about Saturday? No, it didn't rain. It didn't rain. So they still had it in the inside though. Just because they didn't know? Yeah, because it was like, it looked like, we was at the parking, it looked like, okay, here it come. Then we got our fruit sprinkles, and then that was it. Then it kept coming back like, all right, here it come this time, go come this time. He didn't get it, so. Yeah, so it is.

Now, I don't know if it's the Brewers are that good or the Mariners are that bad. But 22, it looked like a football score, man. And I guess in baseball, there's no mercy rule. What they did do, though, they didn't go to the bullpen. I think the backup catcher. I wonder, does he get the save? I know I saw the last two outs he got, but he was the backup catcher.

You know, you don't put your pictures out there for that, you know, like your closers. But man, you have those games, though, you know, where it just seems like tonight just won the night. But you know what? I was looking at the news that one, the one bro that hit his first home run when I saw how I do. It's like that pitch he shot him was like a lie. It did look like one of, you know, like how you.

Okay, when you throw a picture of somebody, you know, that's going to be a grand hitter. You know how you just throw it. That would look like to me. Look at my guy. Look at my guy. And what did I say, Clark? I called him to see if he'd bring me a ginger ale, man. I called him for you. You want a ginger ale, man? I'm good. Clark, I'm good. You sure?

All right, 414445250414445250 Yeah, I once I saw the brewers go up I think when they went up like six nothing I went back to watching the WNBA last night and Watch the fever beat the tempo. That's the Toronto team and The fever beat the aces at home last night

So I don't know how to feel about it. Now there's a big game coming up the Valkyrie. That's the Oakland team or San Francisco, that Bay Area team. We'll be playing the Lynx and they have the best records in basketball. So we should say Kelsey Mitchell left last night. Hopefully her injuries are not serious. But yep, it is that time. Let me do this.

Sometimes you got it. Refreshing. That's when you know it's spot. Let's see what's in the comments, Clark. Not too much, yeah. You said not too much. Yeah. Let's see. Same. Let's see. That's right, Michelle. We play ourselves all the time. Eagles get in the way. OK.

Two types of this north-south who is north? I don't know man, but two types of Negro in America all the people who are okay with her we already know which When and Hakeem he doesn't like when he doesn't like when That's right You know I was

I guess people do listen to the program. And when I was down in Kenosha, I was having a conversation. I don't know. And I explained my remarks. I said that what you saw with Francesca Hahn is younger folks. Yeah, they're showing him doing the last hour. Yep. That was the catcher. Yeah. Who was ever a picture for Seattle?

because you know how when they run out of pictures, they start using outfielders and infielders and catchers. I think that particular game right there, man, they put in the water boys just letting him pitch. Well, Gary Sanchez, who's the backup catcher, he got the last two out. So I wonder does he get the save? Well, not because it's not a safe situation because it's a blowout. Yeah, it's still a, yeah, you got some point. And all of you see if he got the save.

Let's see the Gary Sanchez get the save last night. It wasn't the same I Mean save some really is from getting beat up some oh, well they weren't gonna put the pictures in at this point right Gary Sanchez That was calling people out of the stands like a competition The same and you know what nobody left right

Because it was making history. No, because of the weather. Yeah, so they didn't believe it. They didn't believe it. No, I'm sure he didn't get to say it because it wasn't a safe situation. I can tell we had a flood over here. Because the Brewers are hit by 22 runs when he entered a safe situation that does not exist in baseball. The maximum time run was not beyond deck. And the team leading by more

then three runs cannot be credited with a save. He simply pitched a scoreless inning as a position player to finish the blowout. Yep. No decision. Wow. But he gets the hat that's his resume though. He pitched a meaningless game. They had another game though when the Brewers are in and they brought in position people to... Yeah, because you don't want to have your... I mean, you don't want to put the bullpen out there at this point. Let them rest. There's another game.

We'll see what happens tonight, but it looked like bad in practice. Man, it was funny. It looked like bad in practice, so. Could they get flooded out down there by the, by the bridge? No, there was some water. There was some water coming through the roof because I guess it was coming down so hard. Now, there's the other part of me that my grass is loving this water, right? But it's right too quick. It's a little situation with Lake NOV here. I can see debris. Yeah. Yeah.

people. Man, is it ever going to stop though? What? Lake WNV. Is it ever going to stop? If they clean all the paper off the block, they'd be alright. Yeah. When I was part of the discussion we were having yesterday about how you know when we were coming along it wasn't as much plastic and and so we have we're just more disposable and so that's why you've seen all the trash out there.

But let's be honest, man, we didn't have a lot of trash to throw out. So, you know, I look at the amount of garbage that we create for two people. It's just amazing. I'm going to ask this question again. How come that we Wisconsin don't have you can make money off of plastic bottles and stuff like that? Like all the returnables. Yeah. That's a good question. How come we don't have that?

because you can't find a plastic, nothing in Detroit, nothing. Well, you know, with the, man, I was just thinking about, yeah, now, you know, there is this, there's this, I'm trying to think, I actually went to a store they have down in Evanston, Illinois, Adelweiss, and Adelweiss, I don't know if you've seen Adelweiss milk, Adelweiss juices, they're done in glass and they're returnable.

You know, so you can take that, you know, once you use it, you can take it back in because it's glass. Right. And it's redeemable. Now, you know, you and me, we come from when, you know, you had, what was it, a nickel? No, we had the, when we came up, it was the bottle solders for $10. Yeah, but okay. But then the 32 ounce Coke bottles, that was a quarter. Yep. Yeah, man. That's how I used to earn my wrestling ticket money. That's how I used to earn my swimming money.

All right, okay. Carla, welcome to the program. Good morning. I want to ask you a quick question. You know, we have so much stuff going on in the world today. And I'm going to ask you from my heart, do you think this will be a good opportunity for black people to go beneath hell? Because you know, they always say when they go low, we go high. And since they want to make people live,

whose black life I live in hell, I think black people should take them beneath hell, because black people are the only people who really can control hell, because there's too many people who are too good to go for heaven. And then I thought about it, well, I really want to go to heaven, knowing I didn't see somebody down on earth that I despised to keep up nothing but nonsense, and I see you up in heaven. And I said, I didn't never did anything wrong.

and all you did was ask for forgiveness. What makes you think I don't want to tear heaven down? Do you think black people should take these individuals by means hell to the 100th power? See, because a lot of these people, they want to make your life an 11 hell, but they ain't good enough and they can't take real hell. I also think black people should go back to their roots and start

stadium, boo-doo, hoo-doo, and witchcraft. Because, you know, everybody want to, you know, sit here and act like they're so good and great, and black people are the root of all evil, so I think black people should. Let's go on down the hill, baby. Because I'm going to keep you in hell, and when you get ready to go out, I'm going to take you deeper than hell. All right.

I'm asking you. Oh, you're asking me? Yes, I'm asking you. I don't know. So you ain't never had a time in your life where you said, you know what? I'm going to take you to hell.

What? Oh, now I have had some times in my life where I can't put you in heaven or hell, but I can drive you to the gate of hell. Now, there's some people I want to drive to the gate of hell. No, I'm talking about Bernice Hill, not to hell, because you're being too nice. You got to go Bernice Hill. So you're getting into Dante territory now, you know, where Dante has the different stages of hell. And I don't know what is seventh degree, ninth degree of hell.

I don't want to take him to the hundredth degree of hell because we as black people are the only people who can control him. I think people like you are too good to go to heaven. I think you will probably pull a two by four somebody in heaven. So so so Al you don't want to go to heaven? Why would I? Why would I want to go to heaven and I see somebody did everything they big enough to do cause all kind of havoc and chaos and now I'm in heaven.

And you're up there and all you had to do is give forgiveness. I want to jump on you in heaven. And if Jesus is jumping the way I want to jump on him too. And hit him with a bottle. So you would rather see them in hell? No, I want to take them beneath hell. I don't want to take you to hell. Taking you to hell, that means I'm being a bigger person. I want to take you beneath hell. Some people say that hell is bad. Why we know hell is bad if you can control it?

All right, appreciate you make the next call call a welcome to the program I don't know you don't read revelations brother too scared

I couldn't help but to call in. You could have. No, no, no, I couldn't. I could not with not not with my police is on the top.

and I have a me and I have means to jump in and eject your belief is under attack. How is your belief under attack? Because when you start talking about heaven and hell and how you don't want to go to heaven, don't worry about going to heaven. You ain't going to go to heaven. How's your belief, how's your belief being attacked? Right? Because what I believe and what I, what I believe righteously is that heaven is a place of purity.

And there ain't going to be no two by four pulling in, no fighting and all of that kind of chaos. So what's happening here is that when I hear a gentleman called in that claimed to be an atheist, you know, one without a God. And he studied talking about heaven and hell. But one thing about hell is what they're going to do with you. Now, you didn't say nothing you don't want to do with talking. Because he was making a point. You know what I mean? But what I'm asking you is how is that attacking?

How's that attacking your face? How's it attacking your faith? No, Meets, Meets, hold on. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, because Meets, hold on, hold on, Meets, you have to understand this. And you, you notice as a Bible scholar, the Bible says for them to let them grow together and he'll do the separating. So you having to comment because he feeling like he don't want to go to heaven.

That's not your place bro because again Bible says to let them grow together now you you coming up against what he's saying true enough you have your opinion because

you want to go to heaven I understand that but for somebody that don't believe that's not your job to make them believe you got to let it grow together and then he gonna do the separating at the end bro all right that was good that was good that was good but remember this hold on

Then we'll go to where G and John Jesus said I am the my father is the husband that I am You know that the majority of the world The majority of the world is not believe in heaven and hell you understand That's them that's them that's them that's them and also me so you got to be careful too because you because you tend to talk a lot about the

the the Mexicans and the immigrants and putting them out and things like that. And then what about if they in heaven? Are they going to heaven? I mean, are you going? Are you going to put them out of heaven too? Because Jesus said love everybody love your neighbor. So if they are your neighbor, you got to love them. I can't know if you're having a monologue. Just let me know because I'm trying to have a dialogue. Y'all won't let me talk. Same difference. Go ahead, bro. No, it ain't the same difference. Not when you just relevant. I'm listening.

I mean, it sound like you rolling off, man, because just because he has an opinion and don't. OK, well, let me give you my opinion. Can I give you my opinion? Yes, sir. My opinion is that you don't got a word about going to heaven. How? You probably don't. Are you judging them, bro? You better go. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

All right, man, I got to take a break, mate. Appreciate you, man. You listen to the community. Hold on. You gonna hold me over? No, because I got a guest coming in at 9.30. So y'all, yeah, so y'all stewed on that point. Look here, man. You don't have to. Let me say this before you take your time. OK. You don't got to worry about it, because in Halo...

It's going to be like a diabolical prison, a red diabolical prison with all of that mess going to be down there. And if you ever snitch on somebody, you don't want to go to hell. If you were ever a hater, you don't want to go to hell. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

The number one, the number one is going to be the unbelievable brother. Okay. All right. That part is true. Be careful. Why don't we let, why don't we do this? Why don't we let God straighten it out? Yeah. She knows what she knows. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Viola.

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We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.

The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people. To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Water is our greatest resource. We all need it to survive. Viola is 100% doing great work.

When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia. The result? The new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values.

I'm Jim Playset. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that cleaned and enjoyable for all of us.

We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.

The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people. To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Waters are our greatest resource. We all need it to survive. Viola is 100% doing great work.

Keith Parris. All right, welcome back and we're joined in studio by Ms. Teresa Langdon. She's here to talk about the First Annual Grief in Healing Conference. Welcome. Thank you. Good morning. Tell us about the Grief in Healing Conference. Sure. It's a nonprofit. I'll wait.

It came from the loss of my son. He was killed in 2012. He was shot. It was a double homicide and for it took me about 13 years to decide that I needed to do something in celebration of him. I actually always wanted to do something in celebration of him. Just didn't really know what to do. He wasn't a party kind of kid. So

I thought I'll do something that involved the community and involved other Families grieving in particular mothers who had experienced what I did I had experienced So you decided to so did you form an organization? Yes, I have my I'll wait Non-profit organization I have a one three C. Yes, and what is that organization do?

I also have a podcast, and my podcast, I sit with mothers who have experienced the loss of a child. It doesn't have to be a homicide. I sit with moms who have experienced accidental deaths, drownings, health issues. So my goal is to teach

families, how to navigate through grief with kingdom principles, knowing that God is not angry with us and that death is something that we'll all experience. So is it helping people through the process of griefing? Yes. Yes, I believe so. That's my goal.

and to help them to live again. I think that I spent a lot of time, I think I wasted a lot of time with, and what I wouldn't say wasted, I did what I could when I could. Grief is, it looks different with everybody. It doesn't always, it's a joke that I do with my clients, I'm a manicurist by trade, sitting on the side of the...

The bed and I just sat there and I pondered and I thought about him so long and wondering what would he look like today and stuff like that. So I think that I wanted to Speed the process up a little bit for other people knowing that our loved ones will want us to smile again. They will want us to laugh again. They will want us to have fun again and I didn't want to do that thinking that it would

look crazy if I was laughing and playing and joking. And if you knew my son, my son was a happy person. So I know that he wouldn't want me to do that. So I teach moving forward after the grief, grieving, but healing at the same time. If that makes sense. And it's a process. Yes. And people

is one of those things like you move at your own speed. People, they go through just all these ranges of emotions and feelings and be able to get to, and I don't know what OK looks like, but maybe it does look differently for different people. I bet. I know shopping,

That's something that society probably wouldn't frown at because shopping is shopping, right? But some of us just doing it to self-medicate. Some people drink, some people smoke, you know, some people take pills and it looks different. And we don't always know what grief looks like, but I just want us to lean in and be intentional with our interactions.

Like I said, I'm a manicurist by trade. So I get the opportunity to sit with clients face to face. So that's an intimate time. And I've learned so much about my clients and I'm learning what grief looks like. It looks different. It looks different for everybody. Everybody is not crying. You know, somebody is overindulging and drinking. You know, it just looks different for all of us. Depression. Yes. Yes.

So talk about the conference. Just give us a sense of what that day looks like. So I wanted it to be a celebration. I didn't want it to be a day of if you want to cry, of course, I don't want anybody to not cry if they want to cry. But it's so many great things happening that day. And it's so much entertainment and so many the lineup is amazing. And I wanted to soften the day up with my good friend, Rico Love. He's an artist and he's traveled worldwide and he's written.

music and he's doing his own album right now. 97 Bad Boys and he took out the time to come and spend time with us and my good friend from Minnesota, Jay Most, and he has music coming out also. So I felt like that would lighten up the day a little bit because I know grief can be heavy, but it can also be a good thing to be interacting with people who are saying,

I've experienced this too, because I think that grief sometimes makes us go into isolation and makes us feel like nobody's experiencing this except for me. And I think that's where the depression comes in, because it feels like I'm by myself. So I thought that the line dancing, the music, and that would lighten up the day. But we have Michelle Pitts-Luckett, Dr. Tipton, Tori Lowe, Gina Wise. The workshops doing today is actually personal.

very personal to me because Francesca Robinson is my baby sister who watched me grieve So she's gonna use kingdom principles for navigating through grief and my other sister Justina Williams. We just experienced another loss while I'm Planted for this grief conference my nephew who I was very instrumental in his upbringing

passed away last week. So we having a home going for him tomorrow. And so this is right in the middle of us doing, you know, the grief and healing conference. So God is so strategic in everything that he do. And I think that this is, it is so needed. And I want people to know you don't have to grieve along, you know, this has affected 90. Oh, I'm going to say 100% of us, most of us have experienced some type of loss.

So you have a gala and you have workshops. So talk a little bit about the workshops. So the workshops is during the day. They're going to start at nine. I mean, I'm sorry. The doors are open. I think it's like eight or nine o'clock. My sister Francesca, she's going to be doing her workshop at 1045, the Kingdom Strategies for Navigating Through Grief.

Done so much work in preparation for this. I'm so excited about my brother-in-law James Robinson. He's gonna pray us into the day and I Think it'll be beneficial to everybody it's just and then I also have

a good close cousin that lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. She reached out to me and she said that she wanted, she's not on my flyer, but she do mind body medicine. And she's going to also be added to the workshops during the day because she just wanted to participate. She just wanted to help. And that's what when I say grief has, all of us have experienced grief. I've gotten so many calls where people, I just don't have the space for it.

Right. But so many people wanted to help and do workshops and stuff like that. So we know that it's a need in our community for because I think a lot of the bad behavior is connected to grief. And grief is just love with nowhere to go. And then so actually this is all day. What time does it start? It starts at 10 30.

But the doors will be open so the event I have some amazing vendors and vendors will be setting up at 8 o'clock they'll start setting up and So the doors will be open and people can start coming in then if they just want to and my brunch is everything is elaborate my food my I'm doing buffet style and it's a variety of everything. I'm so excited about that because we always looking for food, right so

I think that it's going to be a great day. I don't want people to be discouraged about the price because I've gotten calls, one call in particular, a young man who said that he had experienced, I think his son, uncle passed away August 22nd, which is my son's birthday. And he was saying that

the cost and I was like, well, don't let the cost keep you from coming. Let me know what you can do so we can figure it out so you can be there because more importantly than anything, the body's in the room. That'll provide. Okay. And where's it being held? It's going to be at the four point Sheridan and Brown Deer. It's going to be all the way until the evening. Now, I don't

anticipate that people will stay until 12 midnight, even though I haven't until 12 midnight. We're thinking about cutting everything off around 10 o'clock, but the share that has everything set up for us to go all the way over until 12 o'clock midnight. And so if people want to, are you still looking for vendors or are you set for vendors? Well, I think that I'm all out of space for vendors. However,

if people don't get to me today and between today and Friday, they'll end up having to pay at the door. I would prefer that they reach out to me or my baby sister. Is it okay if I get my number? My number is 414-477-6516. And my sister number Francesca, her number is 414-639-1408.

414 639 1408 That's the first annual grief and healing conference on 22nd 4-point Sheridan which is Set 6900 8900 kill deer kill deer. Yeah, okay a wide range of folks Who will be there starting in the day? They have a brunch and then they have a gala in the evening

Again, if you're interested in being a part of this, give that phone number again. 414-477-6516. 414-477-6516. Also, my baby sister Francesca Robinson. 414-639-1408. 414-639-1408. Anything else you want folks to know?

Don't think that this is going to be a day where we are just crying and everybody is sad because we've experienced this because that's not what this is about. This is about celebrating the life and the legacy of my son, celebrating the person that he was and all the other.

individuals in the room who have experienced some type of loss. We are celebrating our loved ones and that's why I wanted Rico love. That's why I wanted Jay Moles because in lightens up the day, we also have Alvina. She's Alvina Richburg. She's coming from Minnesota also and she's going to do a line dancing workshop. So the day when you say grief, it sounds heavy, but it doesn't have to be because we're hurting and healing at the same time.

This Teresa Langdon and she's here and to present the first annual grief and healing conference held on Saturday, August 22nd at the four points Sheridan again for information you can call Fran at 414-639-1408 or Teresa at 414-477-6516.

Appreciate you coming in and sharing this with the community. Thank you so much, Keith. Thank you for having me. I appreciate your time. No problem. You're listening to Community Voice. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia. The result of the new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community. Connecting students to schools,

People looking for work with employers. The community with parks. Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before. Those are Milwaukee values.

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Welcome back to community boys and I was starting to tell I was having a conversation I said last week one of the issues that Millennium's I think Millennium's Gen X gen Xers and Millennium's have at this point is their question and I just said it wasn't my perspective the question of like boomers get out the way and so

That's what I was saying not that boomers should get out the way, you know, but at some point, you know, we are getting close Where you know like Eleanor Holmes Norton who was the delegate from DC and she could barely function Mitch McConnell I mean, I think at some point, you know Time should say, you know, you should get out the way but who am I but

Interestingly enough, I was talking to a Republican friend of mine, and we were just kind of doing a little post-mortem of the Democratic primary. And we're talking about Francesca Hahn. I'm gonna tell you, and I know people, everybody won't keep it real. You know, like I'm just gonna be my genuine self. I'm just saying, if you're trying to get elected, one of those things is,

what your appearance and what that looks like because a lot of it is done through media, right? What people see in media. And I said to my guy, I said, you know, Francesca Hahn had a great ground game, their ground game, man. That whole getting out, having people knock on doors. But the majority of people were exposing you through media. And I said, though she had a great ground game, her media PR game,

wasn't as good and what I mean by that is for a lot of people perception is their reality what you look like you know it's what people and it shouldn't be I know we're supposed to be voting on the issues and people but how you look and you know it gets down to are you a woman that could work for your work against you are you a black male that can work for your work against you depending on what environment you're running in

Now it you know it helped Barack Obama that Barack Obama looks like Barack Obama Right and come and then when you compared him to John McCain who looked you know kind of old and Barack represented change and vitality and relative youth That went somewhere with folks But

And I was listening to Michelle talk about Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Ego is a monster, man. You know, it's hard for some of us to believe that the world can exist without us, right? And that so I remember them having this whole debate about who is going to get out the race to run against, you know, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

And everybody had their reasons. I'm the strongest candidate. Well, obviously you weren't because you would have had her numbers, right? So that's always a tough one. Who should run? I know we were having this debate when, when David and Mandela was still in the primary, you know, where, you know, people were saying, well, one of them should get out. You know, I, I don't know.

Don't know and and look America is so racialized. I mean it is it It's it's our thing right and and if race doesn't matter Or you think race doesn't matter You're deluding yourself race does matter I Think it matters more than it should But race does matter those those factors

going and it was, I was talking and this brother, he's about eight, nine years younger than me. But he went to a prestigious all boys high school in his hometown. And he told me there's like 16 black students in the entire school. And he was talking about how him and his, one of his classmates, where a lot of people, a lot of the brothers dropped out.

They, they endured, but then they were talking about the racial incidents that they had. And I thought, wow, I cannot. Maybe there were one or two racial incidents when I was in high school. Now I'm in high school before him, but to see that that was still an issue, either in the eighties or going into the nineties. Um, it was kind of, it was, it was sobering for me, uh, because I didn't, you know, other than the one incident I had.

Um, my sophomore year, um, with a guy and we got into it and, um, he dropped the N word and next thing you know, it was on and cracking. Um, now I give him credit. I guess sincerity is not required. He did after we graduate, apologize for that. But then he tried to explain to me.

And I don't know where white folks and black folks get this from. Okay, he goes, you know And I'm only using this because I'm using I'm quoting him. He says that, you know, there are white niggers Going last time I checked there wasn't less than biracial You know, I don't I don't see that an interesting thing was he was Irish, right?

And so the Irish have their own unique history in Europe, and there's certainly their own unique history here in America. And maybe that's how the Irish felt about themselves when they were in Europe. But I was pointing to him and to anybody else know that word was created for and about descendants of Africans, either enslaved or otherwise.

Right? So when people use that word, and so that's how we get down to using the word and who uses the word. Because it's how it's used. And I know for a lot of people, oh man, we should never use that word, the history of that word. I'm going also, yeah, but there's some culture that's attached to that word. And I'm sure because I don't think, and again, not to be offensive to any of the Jewish listeners there.

I don't know if black people can be a kike, right? I don't know if black people can be a mick unless I don't know if black folks can be a dago. Unless you mix race, right? Mix ethnicity. So when when when he said that to me, I just kind of like now. No, I appreciate you.

Feeling badly for it, but your anthra logical explanation is inaccurate that word was created for not by black folks but because of enslavement because of colonization and it's a unique word that's usually applied uniquely

to descendants of Africans and enslaved Africans who find themselves in the United States of America. And I know culturally, because of hip hop and the spread that that word has been used, is used in lyrics to songs. And so you could have somebody, you know, again, descendants of Africans. I don't know if it's the same thing in Jamaica.

So all my folks who might be you know descendants or have Jamaican lineage you can tell me I don't know if it's the same thing in the Dominican Republic now I do know that when Jamaicans and Dominicans and Puerto Ricans get stateside That word becomes part of you know the lexicon and but Okay, so anyway

I that that was just I'm kind of waiting on my guess. She's running a little late to arrive, but yeah, that was That was an interesting conversation when I had with him when he talked about that That wow now We did have some some incidents there, but I don't know I would have to talk to my black classmates in terms of did they ever have any experience where

I mean, we thought like certain things were racial, like the number of black people that could be on the floor doing, you know, for varsity basketball. There was a young man there who was a pretty good quarterback, but they didn't want a black quarterback. I mean, that was happening in the 70s. That was happening in the 80s. But, you know.

But we can play for your team if we can. What, be a black quarterback? Yeah. Well, I think that's what the black quarterback represented. You represented, you know, I mean, a quarterback represents the leadership of the team, right? And the pros, the highest paid player on the team is who? The quarterback, you know? And then there would be all these reasons why you didn't want a black quarterback. He's athletic.

Yeah, cause when I got a 350 pound lineman coming up on me, I need to have some escape ability. Right? You know, you, you had guys out there with no escape ability, Ben Roslin burger. He just stood up and he just take it, man. I mean, the idea of the mobile quarterback. Um, and look, you know, which is really ironic to me because in the early inception of football, you know, most things were running.

You know, I don't know if it was Newt Rockney, whoever brought the Ford Pass in. When they brought the Ford Pass in, that was like revolutionary because most quarterbacks ran, right? I mean, so of course you want a mobile quarterback. I mean, and now you can't be a dropback quarterback in the NFL. Your shelf life is going to be because you getting taken out.

The linemen, the defensive linemen, the defense is just so athletic, right? That, no, man, you, you, you, you gonna be done. You history, cancel Christmas. You know, and, and, and then here's was crazy. And I don't know if we remember Clark, Fran Tarkington. Yeah, I remember Fran Tarkington. You like Fran Tarkington. Yeah. Why? Because he was a scrambler. Yeah. That's what that term, the first time I ever heard the term was applied to Fran, to Fran Tarkington. Because that Minnesota line couldn't block for him. Well,

the new york line because he ended up he started off in new york and then ended up in minnesota but uh and dude had never missed a game he never missed a game till the last he got hurt the last game of his career because i mean you're running for your life your friend talking to me moving he was always screaming yeah anybody remember lin dickie lin dickie had one of the greatest arms ever but he had no mobility so he was always hurt he was always hurt you know so

Yeah, I mean, I think the new game is such where I don't know who you think cuz you know Doug Williams wasn't a mobile quarterback. He was dropped back Yeah, but I'm trying to think who would be oh Oh, whatever the guy He played at USC End up playing for the Bears Vince Evans Vince Evans man. He not only they have a strong arm or Randall Cunningham

Randall Cunningham, but not only did he have a strong arm He had mobility and then he had set the record for the longest punt in NFL history And and he was he was the younger brother of Sam Bam Cunningham Everybody remember Sam Bam Cunningham because he when USC played Alabama You know that great game point they try to make beer Bryant like this guy, you know, oh man, don't he give me started on

But then I'm a big fan of the Southeast Conference, right? I mean that that's that's where college football is played in my mind But so there there's been there was a guy named Oh God Dickie Yeah, and I'm thinking blank on his first name he's one of the first starting black quarterbacks and then who was my guy he ended up

being a receiver uh but he started an AFL I can't think of dude's name now so you had it but man the you know football is still the last plantation so do you think it's more black quarterback playing now in college than it was back then oh yeah without question and why is that well they're they're they're good

I mean, they're good quarterbacks. I mean, those guys, when you look at the Mahones of the world, who is it? Is it Jalen Hurt? My guy down, is it Caleb Williams down in Chicago? Who's my other guy? Lamar Jackson. You know, these dudes are, now, my problem with Lamar, though,

is that sometimes he's not the most accurate quarterback. And I think a lot of that is movement. And at least now he's not thinking run as soon as I get in trouble, you know, just follow, you know, your progressions. But if you have the athletic ability, you know, you go, you go, you're going to use it. They got anybody to block for him. Because where the tour end up, he's gone now, right?

Yeah, too was gone and then the little quarterback from from the Cardinals He's playing for the Vikings Yeah, I my problem with him is though, he's just too little You know that that Murray Yeah, I mean he's just small. That's great great that they have a 5-5 quarterback playing for Minnesota

I'm worried about the Bears. And I haven't been worried about the Bears for a long time. But you know, Bears is like one of the better teams in the NFC North. Yeah, I'm worried about the Bears. I shouldn't be worried about the Bears. I don't think we're going to be blowing them out no time soon. Bears?

I don't know. Bears might be a problem this year, man. I'm thinking the Bears might be a problem. They were a problem last year. They might be a problem because they office have now stepped up. They defensive stepped up. Special teams look good. Did they beat the Packers three times last year? They beat the Packers twice. Twice. Once in a playoffs, though, when they made it. Yeah, when they counted. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah.

We ain't gonna be, we ain't gonna be talking about, we own them no more. Yeah, it ain't no more than this and the bears up. They look good. Well, I own you. Yeah, and even Minnesota, man. That's what I just said. Was it Tyler Murray? Yeah, Murray. I think though, if, now first of all, Packers don't get my guy back until...

The sixth game ironically against the Michael Parsons. Yeah, it would be against the Cowboys though. You know the Cowboys just got uh What's the name the defense of me and uh? Supposed to the defensive cat Real big name cat. Uh, the Miles Garrett went to the dog. But that mouse care. He went to the Rams Yeah

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So he really ain't got to work. They still got the same quarterback. Yeah, kid Williams. He's my Dallas. Yeah. That's Prescott. Yeah. So yeah, man, with Vaughn Miller. This might be his last year though. I think Jerry, I think Jerry Jones is not happy paying him all that money. Yeah, but he just paid him all of that. He was the one that just signed him. I know he just signed him, but yeah. Yeah, well, because if you don't produce,

You know, his mind, you know, okay. So, why do they trade for Gary like that? They trade for Gary because we got Michael Parsons. Yeah, but they believe in Gary. We didn't believe him and he was with us for you. No, I think we did believe with him. I believe that they had to get something to get Michael Parsons. So, they gave up like their interior. That's their interior defense. That dude was like the anchor there. So, why didn't they give up Luke? So, why didn't they give up Luke than this?

Then this is not the same player as Gary not Gary Gary Gary's linebacker. No Gary is a defensive in So I'm at we're sawing Gary He's a defensive in is that who they gave up. Yeah We're sawing Gary and uh, the big dude and no they saw we're sawing Gary, but they gave up big dude in the middle right, right? Big dude as money situation

Let's do the Michael Parsons trade. What's the name? Watch. I mean, I think they gave a watch, right? Let's see. Parsons trade. Trade. Let's see. Kenny Clark. Kenny Clark. Yeah, Clark.

They saw Gary. Okay. So yeah, they, you know, they believe in Gary. Gary, I mean, well, Gary was a good linebacker. Is Walker still with them? Kenneth Walker? Not Kenneth Walker. The dude, the dude from Georgia. Oh, he's talking about the linebacker. Linebacker. No, he gone. Wow. Yeah, they go.

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Probably I love burners, but burners have so much sugar in it. It's a big one when I was still drinking soda. I tried man, this is this is more soda than I've had in about three, four weeks. So yeah, good for the stomach. Yeah. It actually hit the spot, man, because I normally don't drink so it was neither. But I needed that acid, man, to help. Excuse me. Well, you got your steps in today. Oh, yeah.

Almost got hit by a car That's my fear now Jesus I'm at the age group where they just run you over. I think What was that movie back in the day death rates 5,000? That's what I kind of feel like I don't know how many points they get for taking me out. Wait, man. So what was the name of that movie?

that everybody was talking about, I think it was called Faces of Death. That they had different parts of it. Yeah, the witches, Craig. Now, why would they put a movie out? Why would people want to see it? And that's what I'm tripping about. Like, man, people want to see it. Like, man, people used to pack the theaters out to go see Faces of Death. I'm going to tell you the movie that I do not watch. And that's the final destination. Which one?

because I ain't even a lot. I can't watch the because I be thinking like, what is that camp? Yeah, they had some great kill seeds in final destination. They have some great kill seeds. But you know what? That's just like walking outside. Now, I don't know if y'all are remembering this a couple of years ago. I'm going to say about had to be about a good 10, 12 years ago.

airplane was flying over and the part of the gas tank fell off the airplane and hit a car on like towns or like something like that. Yeah. It had dislodged from the airplane as it was flying over and fell onto a car smashed the top of the car. That's the top of final destination. Yeah. That that you know that we'd be like it can never happen in real life but it really can because it

it actually happened. Like, man, I remember seeing it because I drove by the car and it was on the news and everything like that. On the body anyway. No, no, no. But they were saying that, man, that apart from the airplane had came off of the airplane as it was flying over and he failed down. So just imagine you outside walking. Yeah, I know. That's that's why I don't like watching that movie. That's the reason why.

So y'all so scary. It was like man, you escape a shootout, you escape a dog attack, then you get hit by an airplane. Right, right. Caster free. You get hit by a car. Like what? Life can be, you know, you try to explain some things that happen in life and it is unexplainable. It's just like a Jim Fix who was the guy who started the jogging craze in the country.

He was a two three-pack a day smoker and he quit quit smoking and he started running You know, he still died from congested heart failure Well, yeah from years of you know being the best shape of your life and You know it can that that and I you know for people Pastor McVicker was saying this at Marcy's funeral

You know and it's true and we didn't talk about it here when I was talking to this lady But we always want to ask the question why? You know like and he said and I appreciate this. He said I'm pushing back on God calls this Just things in life happens, you know, we tried to explain it that's what religion is supposed to help us do try to explain the unexplainable

You know, one of the reasons why if you're Jewish, you know, you believe in life and in resurrection. If you're maybe Christian and certain Catholic, you believe in heaven and hell. Other people believe in the cycle of life where, you know, you just we're trying to explain something that no one has ever come back to tell us. And I understand I'm not talking about these people said they I'm talking about somebody been good and dead.

buried good and dead and came back and said what the afterlife was like, even when Jesus came back, he didn't talk about the afterlife. He talked about what people should be doing here. So we can only speculate on what's after death. It is speculation. It's a belief system. Factually, so we don't know. So do you believe that, and I know many of you got to go to break, but do you believe that God will allow it?

Obviously, yeah, I mean and and that's that's the whole whole piece of it because when you really have this conversation You know When Carlton Pearson had come out and said some of these things that pushed that back up against orthodox right orthodoxy against our whole sense of things that You know, maybe God doesn't have favorites

You know that pushed up a lot of Christians who really believe I mean, wasn't tdj's famous for saying favor ain't fair Yeah, I don't know and then what is favor? I mean How was I born in the family that I was born in as opposed to another family that we might be sitting up here talking about now? Well again, and this is actually traced back to the bible

of generational curses because of what your forefathers have done before you. So you think about all the people whose forefathers did awful stuff and they didn't have the so-called generational curse. Well, well, I mean, now, now, you know, so I mean, I think a generational curses can be broken. Well, no, I'm saying that it was just never, I don't, I just, I mean, we want to be absolute, but the problem is.

There are very few absolutes and I think that that's hard for human beings because human beings You know once I get get it locked in this is what it is and then you'll find something don't happen like you all were talking about Parts falling out the sky Well, it don't happen every day and it doesn't happen But then that one day that it does happen. So I ordered or the guy who was down

in Rock County, Warwick County, working on the tree. It got struck by lightning. You know, I mean, when you look at the problem, when in the lottery, I mean, there are things out there where it's probable, you know, or the probability is low, the possibility. Right. And then, so I think it's one of those things we do as humans, and we're going to ask why. We're going to ask how.

You know, I remember I was telling my buddy found out I had a smoke smoke a stroke and he said what were you doing? Having a stroke man Now everything that behaviors led up to what caused the stroke, right, right, right, you know But it wasn't you know, and so I think we get because round always remind me I said this thing black people just can't die There's always story where black people die, you know, I mean it was

You know, that that's part of it. Like, oh, man, well, you know, because then people, people, they know your back story is like that. And then you begin. So it's what we do. We speculate, you know, we, we, we put our, we interject our thoughts, our feelings, which might be so far. And that's why I get back to those that talk don't know. And those that know, don't talk. Man. And that's just like that dude in Africa that actually died, but he keep coming back to life.

So they put him in the house and burnt this house up and he was dead. He was in the coffin and came back to life. So they think that this dude is a witch. You can actually look it up. They think he's a witch. He had to move and live isolated because people was trying to kill him because they think he's a witch. How many people in the world?

What's the world by whole bunch seven billion a whole heap of one out of seven billion One out of seven billion all right When we wanted to expand access for folks in need of bikes we turned to viola

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I'm Jim Pleistad. I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward. Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways. We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia. They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them. It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water. MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that clean and enjoyable for all of us.

We have been in business here for 14 years. I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been. We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards. People are happy to be here and it's growing every year. We love our partnership with Violia. They help the kayak company grow. I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD. Clean water is essential.

The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people. To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time. It feels good. You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in. Waters are our greatest resource. We all need it to survive. Viola is 100% doing great work.

Welcome back and boy, what an honor to be joined in studio by Dr. Eve Hall, President and CEO of Milwaukee Urban League. Good morning. Good morning. You're not laughing. I hear the audience like, oh my God, really? Yeah, we're live. There's a live audience out there. How are you this morning? I am good. I am good. It's always fun to hang out at WNL. It's always fun to hang out at WNLB and talk to you.

Well, thank you and everyone's so kind told folks on Monday. You were our women's day speaker phenomenal phenomenal message. Thank you. Bless me in so many different ways. We're even Talking about it afterwards. So thank you It was an honor. Yeah. Well, he said that in the kind of Little pressure I know it was especially when I saw you and you said, oh You're you're going to be our speaker. I said

Hmm. Okay. I wonder who else is in that. But that's okay. No matter what, you know, it was, um, it was special. And as I had mentioned, uh, this is my mother's birthday month. Uh, she would have been 95 on August 25th day after my mom. Oh wow. She's August 24th and that's something. Wow. So, you know, part of that group, right? You know, in terms of,

educators and influencers in the city along with your mother so So it's special to be to be the speaker for Mother's Day and then as I mentioned to you my grandparents, right? You know my grandfather being the deacon grandmother being in the choir the Bible school teacher and then thinking about how

We were up there as grandchildren, six or seven of us in one of the front two rows. And we better not move. We had to totally behave because, you know, my grandfather, the deacon could look right at you because he was at that table in the middle when they were counting money and doing whatever they do. And then if he didn't see you, my grandmother was in the choir. So she could see you. And this was in Albion, Michigan. You know, just the cultural significance of the black church.

Black church is not perfect, but the black church got us through That's right, and I think that there's a lot I mean it's incubator for many of our musicians for example, you know where this is where they get their start People become orators all these different things so it culturally it becomes part, you know talk about the Milwaukee Urban Lee and My mother who I'm just the Lord willing

uh next monday will be 92 talked about when she was a teenager how they would go to the urban league how does the urban league i believe that so we were founded in 1919 so we are about 107 years old now so we celebrated our centennial in 2019 one year before covid thank god we were able to have our big celebration but

I'm not surprised, you know, when we look at the history of the Urban League, it started, first of all, to support our Black families and individuals who are moving from the South to the North during the Great Migration and during the time we had all these manufacturing jobs, you know, we had different opportunities. And so, and that was happening not just here, but

Chicago, Gary, Detroit, and other Midwest states, especially. No one actually talks about it in warmth of the other side. Absolutely. Absolutely. There's a piece in there about that, right?

you know, it was really decided back in 1910 by a diverse group of individuals in New York, white and black that because of the changing demographics, because of what was happening in the cities, there needed to be some type of urban advocacy, social service type of organizations to support the movement in these cities and to support communities. And so that's really why we were born. So what did that mean? That meant that

When families came here, we were the voice between business, community, government, encouraging them to hire our people, getting into partnerships around employment and training, providing any of the educational, social graces, et cetera, that were needed for our young people, for our adults, supporting entrepreneurs who were trying to start businesses, giving access and information

information on health where people could get some kind of support for their health. In fact, we were actually in a partnership around creating one of the first drug stores or pharmacies for African Americans as well. And then housing, helping to support housing. So you think about all those areas along with just the general civic engagement and social justice issues that we were always advocating for.

If it was not for the urban leagues, which we are up to about 92 affiliates around the country, we are in 36 states and the District of Columbia. We're in just about every metropolitan area. The stabilization of our families over the years would not have occurred in the way that it did because we were that core for so long as an urban league. It could be very jarring coming from a

from a rural area, different speed in terms of lifestyle. And then primarily because I think the Urban League started in New York. It did. Right. So are you coming up to New York or are you coming to Chicago and very different or even coming to Milwaukee? Right. And what that looked like. The advocacy piece, though, was it was in the 60s under Whitney Young.

Correct. I think when people

It wasn't your traditional civil rights organization, correct? I mean, right. So, so the way I differ, um, I, I distinguish the two because a lot of times people will say it's like the NAACP or they'll say, well, I already gave to the NAACP, you know, that type of thing. When really we're kind of brother and sister, you know, in the movement. And why I say that is on the urban league side, there was always a focus around the economic.

advancement and stability of our community. So a lot around jobs. So for instance, Whitney Young was the person who really helped to open the doors with the federal government, you know, with government and also corporations taking us seriously in terms of there needed to be opportunities for us in these two sectors. And then he was very strong around also the development of

the staff, you know, the people that worked for the Urban League. The NAACP was really that one that was in the courts, really fighting the cases. So I always use the example, you know, Keith Parrish has enough money to move into this house in such and such neighborhood, but all of a sudden you can't.

because they're redlining or they have the policies, et cetera. So the NAACP is in the court and they're there to advocate to work on your behalf to try to get you in that house or to just look at the policies that are impacting our inability to have that kind of access. And I thought about that because I was watching the signing of

Civil Rights Act and Whitney Young was in the picture. Yeah, and even the March on Washington

because it was for, and this people missed this piece of the jobs and justice. That's right. And that's how you saw the Urban League, their involvement in that. Obviously, a Phillip Randolph with the poor, the railroad folks. And it was so, it was an interesting coalition. They called it the Big Five. Yes. Interesting coalition of people coming together. But I think sometimes we miss that a lot of our organizations have their own lane. That's true.

you know and and and I think it's not just one you know one way where the NAACP was really about litigation primarily uh where you had to urban league it was more hands-on you know we had to get people jobs right that's right it was that direct service um and empowerment um you know and even today I mean jobs are still huge in terms of adults and even youth and also education you know we're we're not

necessarily.

educators at the Urban League, that's part of my background, but I mean, just as an Urban League, we provide youth services, you know, different supports. So like we had our AI summer boot camp this summer, we had two cohorts of students, one group was 12 of them, another, the second group is 11, and their grades eight through 12, and they are learning how to effectively use chat, GPT,

how to create their own website, but it's all, it's all based around them identifying an issue that's most important to them. It could be mental health, it could be food scarcity, housing, youth violence, they've chosen, each of them have chosen a particular issue and then used AI to present that issue and also present their solutions to the issue. So on tomorrow,

We are actually having the students provide their presentation. So you're more than welcome to come. I'm gonna send that invite to you and you will be able to hear a student because they'll be at individual stations for them to share with you the issue that they identified and their resolve around that issue. How are you navigating this current and climate right now where

The Trump administration I just say this has really attacked so-called DEI That that that makes it a little bit more difficult for you right now, right? Well, it has it has definitely made an impact on our overall organization both locally and nationally and so What we've really done keep this we've navigated we keep navigating the waters so that we

do what we need to do to maintain our funding, to maintain our services without compromising our core values, without compromising any of our programs. So, you know, of course, it's all around the language and making sure that no matter what, any and everyone can participate.

in our programs and services. And we've always been that way. Now we make no apology that we were founded on the basis of helping African Americans. That was a place in time when we were truly needed in that vein. We weren't at the point that we're at now. And we still don't make an apology that the majority of the individuals that we work with and address are of African Americans, right? But at the same

In time, we're also very clear that if you come through the door, we don't care what color you are. If you need support, services, or what have you, as we've always been, we will be there. Yeah, and when you hear urban, we always associate that. Not always, but we associate that with black folks. But obviously, we see how diverse America was. Certainly, America's more diverse now.

And I hate to use the term race because that race is a construct. But when we look at growing up here in Milwaukee, man, it was either you were of African descent or European descent, very small, so-called Latino Hispanic population. That's changed now. And very much part of the urban landscape. And in some ways, many of these folks are like our folks who came from the South, right?

first generation here trying to navigate, it can be pretty difficult in an urban environment. Right. And we on a national level have formed a coalition where you have Latino and others, you know, that are

a part of a coalition just looking at everything that's occurring in our democracy. And just like here, you know, I have conversations with my Latino colleagues about what is occurring and just learning more of the pressures that they're going through. But you're right. There are some real similarities in terms of what we went through.

um during our time and quite frankly we're you know we still we still have our challenges you know there there is truth to the uh what dwb driving while black and walking while black and you know it's i mean it's still there so but it's been it that's right um ice being pretty much like early police back post enslavement where it was there to kind of pretty much keep

descendants of Africans in line and reinforcing the segregation system I think overall I think people need to I think there's just more we need to do the embutu on all of this and understand I'm connected to this person when you do the divide now

We just go on and on and on about your driver's ed program. Right. That's huge for us. My wife mentioned it to you. Did she? Yes, she did. That was so funny because Rhonda and I worked together before didn't even realize we were at family service on Milwaukee. And so, um, so when I went up there and then she was sitting there, we were just like, oh my goodness. But yes, uh, we constantly have waiting lists for driver's permit classes. So.

15 through 17 year olds we started that a few years ago because we have been for years providing drivers permit classes to adults but we had not really done it for youth because remember at one time the school system was providing drivers that and there was no charge and then they basically stopped or at this time it's still limited with the numbers that they serve so

private lessons are expensive, whether you are whatever income you are, you know, especially lower middle, whatever. I mean, it's it costs like period. So we continue to raise the money to provide that with very little cost from the student or the parent, and we will continue to do so. What are some of the other programming you offer?

So we are actually in schools project ready mentor is a program for students basically six through 12 and we are in the classroom once a week and everything from some of the, you know, special activities around socio emotional.

critical thinking skills, just really keeping students engaged and supported while they're in school. They have community service projects that they do. We also have them in different.

field trips that deal with skills and post-secondary opportunities. So just really exposing them to what's out in the community. We host a STEAM Summit, so Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math at Discovery World. So those students along with others participate in that programming. So what is that? 11?

through about 17 so we're talking really six through 12th grade for project ready. Well and I say that because um and it might be fifth my program team I'm sure is correcting me as I speak but yeah and they just sent me um

The summer camps AI student capstone celebration. Yes, thank thank you faith And that's the one I was inviting you to so that's three o'clock at thrive on and these students were eight through twelve They represent public private and charter schools the students just phenomenal. I mean bright

great ideas, solutions, innovation. So we're really proud to be hosting this. We partnered with an Orthodox solution. So we have

three instructors, well, two instructors and instructional support, so Brandon Jackson, Ryan Rogers, and then Brian Taylor Hewitt, which is great. They're entrepreneurs and instructors that are teaching our kids. And so they get a chance to see role models each day. They're a class, which is Monday through Thursday for four hours. Yeah, we're trying to get our goddaughter old enough where she can really go to geek camps, especially good math.

and so been able to do it. I think we miss the, you know, classrooms is only part of instruction. Kids' exposure to things outside the classroom really helps. You know, we have a lot of kids who don't necessarily have those outlets and they're very, very, very smart kids. But no one ever said, hey, you know, you could.

you could do this or put you in this environment where you see something different than your normal. Well, and what's really special about our class is that

Students are not just learning AI, but they're also identifying who are some of the legacy heroes and sheroes that we're exposing them to and who do you relate to? So we've had students relate to Ruby Bridges, John Lewis, MLK, and others. And what part of their work is, what legacy do they want to leave?

thinking about their life and they are learning presentation skills. So we have the students actually going up in front, speaking, practicing. Those are not experiences that you get in the everyday class these days. And oftentimes for our students, they're, you know, kind of lost in the midst of

other students and they don't necessarily always get those opportunities depending on what schools they're going to. So the opportunity to also be in a smaller classroom and get that immediate attention was huge. I actually had a student, she said to me from our first cohort,

Wow, I thought it was going to be a lot of students and at first I thought she was saying that because of disappointment, but she was saying it Because she was glad she didn't tell me no, but I'm glad no I'm glad that it's not a lot of students or you know is from pedagogy that the smaller this the classroom the more

Attention they get from the teacher. Oh, I get it. I get I'm a former learning disabilities teacher I used to take small groups of students at a time for that very reason so You know when we have had the fights basically in education around students

teacher ratios, there's something to that because when you have one student to 20 students and 30 students than 35, students are not getting the attention that they need. You know, a lot of it is a spite of, oh, remember we were all in one schoolhouse? Yeah, but you know, it would have been and no disrespect to those teachers who did it.

If we were able to spread those kids out, have been in their appropriate grades where you can get that one-on-one attention, you would probably even have even better educational outcomes. Correct, correct. Let me just add a couple other things. You know, when we speak about what we do, we are also supporting entrepreneurship. So we have a youth entrepreneurship market, youth market on Saturday, August 29th.

where students, I believe their ages 12 through 17, will be able to promote and showcase their product or whatever it is that they have created and that will actually be held at the Urban Lake.

The day before, we have something for adult entrepreneurs at Molson Coors, because we are partnered with them around entrepreneurship. So we will have a special speaker, Alan Goodman, who has created cheesecakes and all kinds of desserts. You may remember him, but he also, I believe, partnered with Palermo's at one point.

You know has a very strong business background entrepreneur background, so he's going to do something on hustle and flow Which is you know how to just really keep your business going so that is from four to five thirty at most and core So we've sent that out to our members under what we call the entrepreneurship connection so

That's another avenue. And as you know, we always advocate for homeownership. So we have partnered with Axe Housing, with Gorman, with Metcalf Park around some individuals who have become first-time homeowners. And we continue to be in that space of at least advocacy and connecting people to the resources they need if that is their desire to own a home.

Is that what the few minutes we have left is it too early to talk about black and white? No, we could now talk about that so And and we try so hard Keith to make sure people are aware of our programs and services first because always at the forefront of people's mind is oh The Urban League does this great black and white ball and it is great because we are

the best gala in the city in terms of the diversity that's at the gala and just the opportunity to engage with so many people. But bigger than that, that is our major fundraiser. That event helps to support all that I've been speaking about in terms of our operational.

of the Urban League so it is so important that you know for those of you that attend just know that whether you're buying a ticket um you're sponsoring a table if once you get there you provide some additional support this is all going towards the cause of what the Urban League is about which is to really help all of our communities win

Um, especially, uh, focused on our community and other underserved communities to put them in the position to be economically secure and have a good quality of life. And we need everyone's help. November 7th, first Saturday in November. You have your Baird Center.

You got your 414-374-5850 www.tmul.org. Got your headliner? Not yet. I'll let you know. Okay. Dr. Eve Hall, President and CEO of the Milwaukee Urban League, always great having to come in and let us know the good work that the Urban League does and our community appreciates you.

Thank you, sir. Appreciate you back. Give that phone number again just in case. 414-374-5850. Let me thank Ms. Teresa Langdon. Clark Kent, thank you. Thank you to my team. GMUL team, go. Ride out, thank you. Dr. Hall, thank you. Hey, y'all, the good Lord Willing Creek. Don't rise. Hope to talk to everybody tomorrow, and as always, go from this place in peace.

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Good morning.

Welcome to Community Voice.

I'm your host Keith Parris.

I want to thank everybody for joining us this morning.

Good morning, Clark Kent.

Who you with?

You got the

poor Lees?

Yeah, you know.

Okay.

And

what up, Ride Out?

Bishop, chairman of the board.

How you doing?

Man, I was out.

We went out.

We went out.

I went out last night, went to the store and

I knew it was bad, but we were spared.

We had no power, we had no, we had no, there was no power outage.

But when I drove to Sendix on North Avenue, the powers out there, powers out on North Avenue, looks like it started about 76th Street all the way.

I know when I got to Swan, because they end up taking the Menominee Parkway Park.

you know I

know you're talking about no lights

no lights and then when I got to the Metcalf on 7 on 68th and state they had power just to give you an update they are removing that tree limb on Sherman and Fond du Lac but there was another one as I was coming up 60th Street so if you're doing 60th Street

and you're trying to do it south when you get to Burla you're gonna have to turn because there's a limb down on the west side of the street that's blocking the street so yeah I mean it was yeah that went last night I slept with all that yeah that was crazy let me also um to my guy who um

Text right out tell them bring me ginger ale But to my guy who you know saying your coffee Was cold.

I hope it was hot because Michelle was on fire.

So

I

don't know give us an update on where your coffee This morning Yes, so it was

And I guess for the folks who were at the Brewer's game last night, that was probably one of the safest places to be, even though they said there was some water that rain came down.

And that's when I saw the rain came down sheets and then about 730 it had passed, but the damage had been done.

I know a couple of years ago that there's something called a straight line win.

And I had never seen that before, but we have a huge tree in front of our home.

and I saw that tree bend.

I mean, I saw it bend.

That's how strong the wind was.

So, and all those folks, you know, they kind of got caught out there in it.

That's always crazy because sometimes these fronts will come through and you're already out.

Boom.

You're trying to get back to where you're trying to get back to.

But here's the other piece of it.

There's very few places.

If any place you can go where there is in weather.

So they're all cleaning up now and I think when we saw the updates about 11,000 people in Milwaukee County who still don't have power.

Good thing is today will not be an impressively hot day.

I know we had two years ago, three years ago when we had the windstorm and we lost power for two and a half days.

It was getting hot.

It

was

crazy.

It was getting

hot.

It was getting hot.

So

I'm so glad that we got this tree cut down the backyard yard because there's just one big old nail.

It had already had a crack in it.

I just needed one good wind storm.

It was a tour of the back porch, probably the back part of our house.

That's I'm glad we got it cut down this year.

And you know, last week they were dealing with the storms that hit.

Outside of Chicago.

Yeah, and that was the West suburbs Yeah, and as a matter of fact one of the people who was performing at a harbor fest She was talking about she had no power when we did the interview so man, you don't miss it

until it's gone So so did it rang in Kenosha that?

Yeah,

they

ended up getting it was the way it came down was coming from the Northwest

That front came in.

So I'm sure, uh, were you talking about Saturday?

No, it didn't

rain.

It

didn't rain.

So they still had it in the inside though.

Just because they didn't know?

Yeah, because it was like, it looked like, it was at the parking lot like, okay, here it come.

Then we got our fruit sprinkles, and then that was it.

Then

it

kept coming back like, all right, here it come this time, go come this time.

He didn't get it, so.

Yeah, so it is.

Now, I don't know if it's the Brewers are that good or the

Mariners are that

bad.

But 22, it looked like a football score, man.

And I guess in baseball, there's no mercy rule.

What they did do, though, they didn't go to the bullpen.

I think the backup catcher.

I wonder, does he get the save?

I know I saw the last two outs he got, but he was the backup catcher.

You know, you don't put your pictures out there for that, you know, like your closers.

But man, you have those games, though, you know, where it just seems like tonight just won the night.

But you know what?

I was looking at the news that one, the one bro that hit his first home run when I saw how I do.

It's like that pitch he shot him was like a lie.

It did look like one of, you know, like how you.

Okay, when you throw a picture of somebody, you know, that's going to be a grand hitter.

You know how you just throw it.

That would look like to me.

Look at

my guy.

Look at my guy.

And what did I say, Clark?

I

called him to see if he'd bring me a ginger ale,

man.

I called him for you.

You want a ginger ale, man?

I'm good.

Clark, I'm good.

You sure?

All right, 414445250414445250 Yeah, I once I saw the brewers go up I think when they went up like six nothing I went back to watching the WNBA last night and Watch the fever beat the tempo.

That's the Toronto team and The fever beat the aces at home last night

So I don't know how to feel about it.

Now there's a big game coming up the Valkyrie.

That's the Oakland team or San Francisco, that Bay Area team.

We'll be playing the Lynx and they have the best records in basketball.

So we should say Kelsey Mitchell left last night.

Hopefully her injuries are not serious.

But yep, it is that time.

Let me do this.

Sometimes you got

it.

Refreshing.

That's when you know it's spot.

Let's see what's in the comments, Clark.

Not too much, yeah.

You

said not too much.

Yeah.

Let's see.

Same.

Let's see.

That's right, Michelle.

We play ourselves all the time.

Eagles get in the way.

OK.

Two types of this north-south who is north?

I don't know man, but two types of Negro in America all the people who are okay with her we already know which When and Hakeem he he doesn't like We he doesn't like when

that's right

You

know I was

I guess people do listen to the program.

And when I was down in Kenosha, I was having a conversation.

I don't know.

And I explained my remarks.

I said that what you saw with Francesca Hahn is younger folks.

Yeah, they're showing him doing the last hour.

Yep.

That was the catcher.

Yeah.

Who was ever a picture for Seattle?

because you know how when they run out of pictures, they start using outfielders and infielders and catchers.

I think that particular game right there, man, they put in the water boys just letting him

pitch.

Well, Gary Sanchez, who's the backup catcher, he got the last two out.

So I wonder does he get the save?

Well, not because it's not a safe situation because it's a blowout.

Yeah, it's still a, yeah, you got some point.

And

all of you see if he got the save.

Let's

see the Gary Sanchez get the save last night.

It wasn't the same I Mean save some really is from getting beat up some oh,

well they weren't gonna put the pictures in at this point

right

Gary Sanchez That

was calling

people out of

the stands like a competition

The same

and

you know what nobody left

right

Because it was

making history.

No, because of the weather.

Yeah, so they didn't believe it.

It was the

ninth inning.

No, I'm sure he did get the save because it wasn't a safe situation.

I can tell we had a flood over here.

Because the Brewers

are hit by 22 runs when he entered a safe situation that does not exist

in

baseball.

The maximum time run was

not

beyond deck.

And the team leading by more

then three runs cannot be credited with a save.

He simply pitched a scoreless inning as a position player to finish the

blowout.

Yep.

No decision.

Wow.

But he gets the hat that's his resume though.

He pitched

a meaningless

game.

They had another game though when the Brewers were in and they brought in position people to... Yeah,

because you

don't want to have your... I mean, you don't want to put the bullpen out there

at

this point.

Let them rest.

There's another game.

We'll see what happens tonight, but it looked like bad in practice.

Man, it was funny.

It looked like bad in practice, so.

Could they get flooded out down there by the, by the bridge?

No, there was

some water.

There was some water coming through the roof because I guess it was coming down so hard.

Now, there's the other part of me that my grass

is loving

this water, right?

But it's right too

quick.

It's a little situation with Lake NOV here.

I can see debris.

Yeah.

Yeah.

people.

Man, is it ever going to stop though?

What?

Lake WNV.

Is it ever going to

stop?

If they clean all the paper off the block, they'd be alright.

Yeah.

When I was part of the discussion we were

having yesterday about how you know when we were coming along it wasn't as much plastic and and so we have we're just more disposable and so that's why you've seen all the trash out there.

But let's be honest, man, we didn't have a lot of trash to throw out.

So, you know, I look at the amount of garbage that we create for two people.

It's just amazing.

I'm going to ask this question again.

How come that we Wisconsin don't have you can make money off of plastic bottles and stuff like that?

Like all the

returnables.

Yeah.

That's a good question.

How come we don't have that?

because you can't find a plastic, nothing in Detroit, nothing.

Well, you

know,

with the, man, I was just thinking about, yeah, now, you know, there is this, there's this, I'm trying to think, I actually went to a store they have down in Evanston, Illinois, Adelweiss, and Adelweiss, I don't know if you've seen Adelweiss milk, Adelweiss juices, they're done in glass and they're returnable.

You know, so you can take that, you know, once you use it, you can take it back in because it's glass.

Right.

And it's redeemable.

Now, you know, you and me, we come from when, you know, you had, what was it, a nickel?

No, we had the, when we came up, it was the bottle solders for $10.

Yeah, but

okay.

But then the 32 ounce Coke bottles, that was a quarter.

Yep.

Yeah, man.

That's how I used to earn my wrestling

ticket money.

That's how I used to earn my swimming

money.

All right, okay.

Carla, welcome to the program.

Good morning.

I want to ask you a quick question.

You know, we have so much stuff going on in the world today.

And I'm going to ask you from my heart, do you think this will be a good opportunity for black people to go beneath hell?

Because you know, they always say when they go low, we go high.

And since they want to make people live,

whose black life I live in hell, I think black people should take them beneath hell, because black people are the only people who really can control hell, because there's too many people who are too good to go for heaven.

And then I thought about it, well, I really want to go to heaven, knowing I didn't see somebody down on earth that I despised to keep up nothing but nonsense, and I see you up in heaven.

And I said, I didn't never did anything wrong.

and all you did was ask for forgiveness.

What makes you think I don't want to tear heaven down?

Do you think Black people should take these individuals by means hell to the 100th power?

See, because a lot of these people, they want to make their life an 11 hell, but they ain't good enough and they can't take real hell.

I also think Black people should go back to their roots and start

stadium, boo-doo, hoo-doo, and witchcraft.

Because, you know,

everybody want to, you know, sit here and act like they're so good and great, and black people are the root of all evil, so I think black people should.

Let's go on down the

hill, baby.

Because I'm going to keep you in hell, and when you get ready to go out, I'm going to take you deeper than hell.

All right.

I'm asking you.

Oh, you're asking me?

Yes, I'm asking

you.

I don't know.

So you ain't never had a time in your life where you said, you know what?

I'm going to take you to hell.

What?

Oh, now I have had some times in my life where I can't put you in heaven or hell, but I can drive you to the gate of hell.

Now, there's some people I want to drive to the gate of hell.

No, I'm

talking about Bernese Hill, not to hell, because you're being too nice.

You got to go Bernese Hill.

So you're getting into Dante territory now, you know, where Dante has the different stages of hell.

And I don't know what is seventh degree, ninth degree of hell.

I don't want

to take him to the hundredth degree of hell because we as black people are the only people who can control him.

I think people like you are too good to go to heaven.

I think you will probably pull a two by four somebody in heaven.

So so so Al you don't want to go to heaven?

Why would I?

Why would I want to go to heaven and I see somebody did everything they big enough to do cause all kind of havoc and chaos and now I'm in heaven.

And you're up there, and all you had to do is give forgiveness.

I want to jump on you in heaven.

And if Jesus jumped in the way, I want to jump on him too.

And

hit him with a bottle.

So you would rather see them in hell?

No, I want to take them beneath hell.

I don't want to take you to hell.

Taking you to hell, that means I'm being a bigger person.

I want to take you beneath hell.

Some people say that hell is bad.

Why we know hell is bad if you can control it?

All right, appreciate you make the next call call

a welcome to the program

I don't know

you don't read revelations brother

too scared

I couldn't

help but to call in.

You could have.

No, no, no, I couldn't.

I could not with not not with my police is on the top.

and I have a me and I have means to jump in and eject your belief is under attack.

How is your belief under attack?

Because when you start talking about heaven and hell and how you don't want to go to heaven, don't worry about going to heaven.

You ain't going to go to heaven.

How's your belief, how's your belief being attacked?

Right?

Because what I believe and what I, what I believe righteously is that heaven is a place of purity.

And there ain't going to be no two by four pulling in, no fighting and all of that kind of chaos.

So what's happening here is that when I hear a gentleman called in that claimed to be an atheist, you know, one without a God.

And he studied talking about heaven and hell.

But one thing about hell is what they're going to do with you.

Now, you didn't say nothing, you know, we're doing what we're talking.

Because he

was making a point.

You know what I'm asking you is, how

is

that

attacking?

How's that attacking your face?

That says a lot, though,

man.

No, no, no.

How's it

attacking your faith?

No, it meets, meets.

Hold on.

Now.

It's attacking your faith?

No way.

No, no, no, no, no.

It's attacking my

faith.

No, no, because it meets.

Hold on, hold on.

It meets.

You have to understand this.

And you, you notice as a Bible scholar, the Bible says for them to let them grow together and he'll do the separating.

So you having to comment because he feeling like he don't want to go to heaven.

That's not your place bro because again Bible says to let them grow together now you you coming up against what he's saying true enough you have your opinion because

you want to go to heaven I understand that but for somebody that don't believe that's not your job to make them believe you got to let it grow together and then he gonna do the separating at the end bro

all right that was good that was good that was good

but

remember this hold on

Then we'll go to where G and John Jesus said I am the my father is the husband that I am

You know that the majority of the world

The

majority

of

the

world

is not believe in heaven and hell you understand That's

them

that's

them that's them that's them and also me so you got to be careful too because you because you tend to talk a lot about the

the the Mexicans and the immigrants and putting them out and things like that.

And then what about if they in heaven?

Are they going

to heaven?

I mean, are you going?

Are you going to put them out of heaven too?

Because Jesus said, love everybody.

Love your neighbor.

So if they are

your neighbor, you got to

love them.

I can't know if y'all having a monologue.

Just let me know because I'm trying to have a dialogue.

Y'all won't let me talk.

Same difference.

Go ahead, bro.

No, it ain't the same difference.

Not when you just relevant.

I'm listening.

I mean, it sound like you rolling off, man, because just because he has an opinion and don't.

OK, well, let me give you my opinion.

Can I give you my opinion?

Yes, sir.

My opinion is that you don't got a word about going to heaven.

How?

You probably don't.

Are you judging them, bro?

You better go.

No,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no,

no,

All right, man, I got to take a break, mate.

Appreciate you, man.

You listen to the community.

Hold on.

You gonna hold me over?

No, because I got a guest coming in at 9.30.

So

y'all, yeah, so y'all stewed on that point.

Look here, man.

You don't have to.

Let me say this before you take your time.

OK.

You don't got to worry about it, because in Halo...

It's going to be like a diabolical prison, a red diabolical prison with all of that mess going to be down there.

And if you ever snitched on somebody, you don't want to go to hell.

If you were ever a hater, you don't want to go to hell.

Wait,

wait,

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait,

The number one, the number one is going to be the unbelievable

brother.

Okay.

All right.

That

part is true.

Be careful.

Why don't we let, why don't we do this?

Why don't we let God straighten it out?

Yeah.

She knows what she knows.

When we wanted to expand

access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Viola.

The result, the new Violia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.

Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.

Thanks to our partnership with Violia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.

Those are Milwaukee values.

I'm Jim Playset.

I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.

Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.

We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.

They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.

It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.

MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that cleaned and enjoyable for all of us.

We have been in business here for 14 years.

I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.

We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.

People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.

We love our partnership with Violia.

They help the kayak company grow.

I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD.

Clean water is essential.

The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.

To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time.

It feels good.

You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.

Water is our greatest resource.

We all need it to survive.

Viola is 100% doing great work.

When we wanted to

expand access for folks in need of bikes, we turned to Veolia.

The result?

The new Veolia EcoPass program that has dramatically increased access to our bike share system for folks all throughout our community.

Connecting students to schools, people looking for work with employers, the community with parks.

Thanks to our partnership with Veolia, Bubbler Bikes is serving more people than ever before.

Those are Milwaukee values.

I'm Jim Playset.

I'm the executive director of the Historic Third Ward Association and also a resident of the Historic Third Ward.

Somebody's got to manage this, right, and care for our waterways and care for the treatment of our waterways.

We couldn't do it without MMSD and Veolia.

They've just been a great partner as long as I've known them.

It's just been an amazing recovery for this body of water.

MMSD and Veolia have been a big part of getting that cleaned and enjoyable for all of us.

We have been in business here for 14 years.

I believe the rivers are the cleanest they've ever been.

We get lots of people on our rivers and canoes, kayaks, stand-up paddleboards.

People are happy to be here and it's growing every year.

We love our partnership with Violia.

They help the kayak company grow.

I definitely don't think we would be here without Violia and MMSD.

Clean water is essential.

The work we're doing at Viola is absolutely bringing access to the water for people.

To be able to have this job to help keep our rivers clean and our lake clean is the greatest thing I could ask to be doing for my time.

It feels good.

You're accomplishing something that is truly helping everybody in the community I was born and raised in.

Waters are our greatest resource.

We all need it to survive.

Viola is 100% doing great work.

Keith Parris.

All right, welcome back.

And we're joined in studio by Ms.

Teresa Langdon.

She's here to talk about the First Annual Grief in Healing Conference.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Good

morning.

Tell us about the Grief in Healing Conference.

Sure.

It's a nonprofit.

I'll wait.

It came from the loss of my son.

He was killed in 2012.

He was shot.

It was a double homicide and for it took me about 13 years to decide that I needed to do something in celebration of him.

I actually always wanted to do something in celebration of him.

Just didn't really know what to do.

He wasn't a party kind of kid.

So

I thought I'll do something that involved the community and involved other Families grieving in particular mothers who had experienced what I did I had experienced

So you decided to so did you form an organization?

Yes, I have my I'll wait Non-profit organization I

have a one three C. Yes, and what is that organization

do?

I also have a podcast, and my podcast, I sit with mothers who have experienced the loss of a child.

It doesn't have to be a homicide.

I sit with moms who have experienced accidental deaths, drownings, health issues.

So my goal is to teach

families, how to navigate through grief with kingdom principles, knowing that God is not angry with us and that death is something that we'll all experience.

So is it helping people through the process of griefing?

Yes.

Yes, I believe so.

That's my goal.

and to help them to live again.

I think that I spent a lot of time, I think I wasted a lot of time with, and what I wouldn't say wasted, I did what I could when I could.

Grief is, it looks different with everybody.

It doesn't always, it's a joke that I do with my clients, I'm a manicurist by trade, sitting on the side of the...

The bed and I just sat there and I pondered and I thought about him so long and wondering what would he look like today and stuff like that.

So I think that I wanted to Speed the process up a little bit for other people knowing that our loved ones will want us to smile again.

They will want us to laugh again.

They will want us to have fun again and I didn't want to do that thinking that it would

look crazy if I was laughing and playing and joking.

And if you knew my son, my son was a happy person.

So I know that he wouldn't want me to do that.

So I teach moving forward after the grief, grieving, but healing at the same time.

If that makes sense.

And it's a process.

Yes.

And people

is one of those things like you move at your own speed.

People, they go through just all these ranges of emotions and feelings and be able to get to, and

I

don't know what OK looks like, but maybe it does look differently for different people.

I bet.

I know shopping,

That's something that society probably wouldn't frown at because shopping is shopping, right?

But some of us just doing it to self-medicate.

Some people drink, some people smoke, you know, some people take pills and it looks different.

And we don't always know what grief looks like, but I just want us to lean in and be intentional with our interactions.

Like I said, I'm a manicurist by trade.

So I get the opportunity to sit with clients face to face.

So that's an intimate time.

And I've learned so much about my clients and I'm learning what grief looks like.

It looks different.

It looks different for everybody.

Everybody is not crying.

You know, somebody is overindulging and drinking.

You know, it just looks different for all of us.

Depression.

Yes.

Yes.

So talk about

the conference.

Just give us a sense of what that day looks like.

So I wanted it to be a celebration.

I didn't want it to be a day of if you want to cry, of course, I don't want anybody to not cry if they want to cry.

But it's so many great things happening that day and it's so much entertainment and so many the lineup is amazing.

And I wanted to soften the day up with my good friend Rico Love.

He's an artist and he's traveled worldwide and he's written

music and he's doing his own album right now.

97 Bad Boys and he took out the time to come and spend time with us and my good friend from Minnesota, Jay Most, and he has music coming out also.

So I felt like that would lighten up the day a little bit because I know grief can be heavy, but it can also be a good thing to be interacting with people who are saying,

I've experienced this too, because I think that grief sometimes makes us go into isolation and makes us feel like nobody's experiencing this except for me.

And I think that's where the depression comes in, because it feels like I'm by myself.

So I thought that the line dancing, the music, and that would lighten up the day.

But we have Michelle Pitts-Luckett, Dr. Tipton, Tori Lowe, Gina Wise.

The workshops doing today is actually personal.

very personal to me because Francesca Robinson is my baby sister who watched me grieve So she's gonna use kingdom principles for navigating through grief and my other sister Justina Williams.

We just experienced another loss while I'm Planted for this grief conference my nephew who I was very instrumental in his upbringing

passed away last week.

So we having a home going for him tomorrow.

And so this is right in the middle of us doing, you know, the grief and healing conference.

So God is so strategic in everything that he do.

And I think that this is, it is so needed.

And I want people to know you don't have to grieve along, you know, this has affected 90.

Oh, I'm going to say 100% of us, most of us have experienced some type of loss.

So you have a gala and you have workshops.

So

talk a little bit about the workshops.

So the workshops is during the day.

They're going to start at nine.

I mean, I'm sorry.

The doors are open.

I think it's like eight or nine o'clock.

My sister Francesca, she's going to be doing her workshop at 1045, the Kingdom Strategies for Navigating Through Grief.

Done so much work in preparation for this.

I'm so excited about my brother-in-law James Robinson.

He's gonna pray us into the day and I Think it'll be beneficial to everybody it's just and then I also have

a good close cousin that lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

She reached out to me and she said that she wanted, she's not on my flyer, but she do mind body medicine.

And she's going to also be added to the workshops during the day because she just wanted to participate.

She just wanted to help.

And that's what when I say grief has, all of us have experienced grief.

I've gotten so many calls where people, I just don't have the space for it.

Right.

But so many people wanted to help and do workshops and stuff like that.

So we know that it's a need in our community for because I think a lot of the bad behavior is connected to grief.

And grief is just love with nowhere to go.

And then so actually this is all day.

What time does

it start?

It starts at 10 30.

But the doors will be open so the event I have some amazing vendors and vendors will be setting up at 8 o'clock they'll start setting up and So the doors will be open and people can start coming in then if they just want to and my brunch is everything is elaborate my food my I'm doing buffet style and it's a variety of everything.

I'm so excited about that because we always looking for food, right so

I think that it's going to be a great day.

I don't want people to be discouraged about the price because I've gotten calls, one call in particular, a young man who said that he had experience.

I think his son, uncle passed away August 22nd, which is my son's birthday.

And he was saying that

the cost and I was like, well, don't let the cost keep you from coming.

Let me know what you can do so we can figure it out so you can be there because more importantly than anything, the body's in the room.

That'll provide.

Okay.

And where's it being held?

It's going to be at the four point Sheridan and Brown Deer.

It's going to be all the way until the evening.

Now, I don't

anticipate that people will stay until 12 midnight, even though I haven't until 12 midnight.

We're thinking about cutting everything off around 10 o'clock, but the share that has everything set up for us to go all the way over until 12 o'clock midnight.

And so if people want to, are you still looking for vendors or are you set for vendors?

Well, I think that I'm all out of space for vendors.

However,

If people don't get to me today and between today and Friday, they'll end up having to pay at the door.

I would prefer that they reach out to me or my baby sister.

Is it okay if I get my number?

My number is 414-477-6516.

And my sister number Francesca, her number is 414-639-1408.

414 639 1408 That's

the first annual grief and healing conference on 22nd 4-point Sheridan which is Set 6900 8900 kill deer kill deer.

Yeah, okay a wide range of folks Who will be there starting in the day?

They have a brunch and then they have a gala in the evening

Again, if you're interested in being a part of this, give that phone number again.