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23February
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ABHM in Milwaukee, WI23FebruaryBlack History Month 2025
ABHM in Milwaukee, WI23FebruaryBlack History Month @ MPM: Crossing The Line
Milwaukee Public Museum23FebruaryBuilding Legacies
MATC Create Gallery23February23February23February8:00 AM - 12:00 AMSailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum23February8:00 AM - 12:00 AMEbb/Flow: Pritika Chowdhry, Chotsani Elaine Dean and Courtney M. Leonard
Weisman Art Museum23February23February10:00 AM - 12:00 AMMagnolia Shoebox Lunch N Learn & Traveling While Black Immersive Experience
Magnolia House23February23February -
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ABHM in Milwaukee, WI24FebruaryBlack History Month 2025
ABHM in Milwaukee, WI24FebruaryBlack History Month @ MPM: Crossing The Line
Milwaukee Public Museum24FebruaryBuilding Legacies
MATC Create Gallery24February24February24FebruaryAll DaySailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum24February24February24February24February -
25February
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ABHM in Milwaukee, WI25FebruaryBlack History Month 2025
ABHM in Milwaukee, WI25FebruaryBlack History Month @ MPM: Crossing The Line
Milwaukee Public Museum25FebruaryBuilding Legacies
MATC Create Gallery25February25February25FebruaryAll DaySailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum25February25February25February25February3:30 PM - 4:15 PMRaphael Rogers: Representing Black Girl Magic with Contemporary Picture Books
Dana Commons, Higgins Lounge25February -
26February
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ABHM in Milwaukee, WI26FebruaryBlack History Month 2025
ABHM in Milwaukee, WI26FebruaryBlack History Month @ MPM: Crossing The Line
Milwaukee Public Museum26FebruaryBuilding Legacies
MATC Create Gallery26February26February26FebruaryAll DaySailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum26February26February26February26February -
27February
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ABHM in Milwaukee, WI27FebruaryBlack History Month 2025
ABHM in Milwaukee, WI27FebruaryBlack History Month @ MPM: Crossing The Line
Milwaukee Public Museum27FebruaryBuilding Legacies
MATC Create Gallery27February27February27FebruaryAll DaySailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
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ABHM in Milwaukee, WI28FebruaryBlack History Month 2025
ABHM in Milwaukee, WI28FebruaryBlack History Month @ MPM: Crossing The Line
Milwaukee Public Museum28FebruaryBuilding Legacies
MATC Create Gallery28February28February28FebruaryAll DaySailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
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01March
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ABHM in Milwaukee, WI01MarchBlack History Month @ MPM: Early Learning Series
Milwaukee Public Museum01MarchBlack History Month @ MPM: Crossing The Line
Milwaukee Public Museum01March01March01MarchAll DaySailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum01March01March12:00 AM - 2:00 PMMagnolia Shoebox Lunch N Learn & Traveling While Black Immersive Experience
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Milwaukee Public Museum04March04March04MarchAll DaySailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
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ABHM in Milwaukee, WI05MarchNational Society of Black Engineers Convention
McCormick Place05MarchBlack History Month @ MPM: Crossing The Line
Milwaukee Public Museum05March05March05MarchAll DaySailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
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McCormick Place06MarchBlack History Month @ MPM: Crossing The Line
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McCormick Place07March07March07MarchAll DaySailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
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McCormick Place08March08March08MarchAll DaySailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad
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A coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 caused the COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in China before spreading worldwide in 2020. This global pandemic was not equally destructive, however. The virus itself was more harmful to elderly people and those with pre-existing health conditions. However, economic and racial inequalities prevented some people from accessing necessary screening, treatment, or vaccines or following medical advice such as social distancing or quarantining. Medical racism also played a role during COVID-19, and some Black patients formed support groups after the medical system ignored them. The pandemic also highlighted how some medical equipment worked poorly for Black patients.
Nearly 7 million people died of COVID globally, with millions more surviving the disease that raged for multiple years. In the United States, Black people remained at risk while others decreased their concern, which was entirely warranted. African Americans experienced a higher death rate due to COVID-19 than other races, and many struggle with the effects of long COVID. Lingering illness and disability have removed some people from the workforce, while others struggle financially under the weight of caring for or losing others in their households. Funding intended for Black Americans to help mitigate these harms resulted in lawsuits. Similarly, money intended for COVID-19 support was rerouted to prisons, which had already contributed to the rapid-fire spread of COVID-19.
The pandemic prompted a shift to virtual learning, working, and communication. While some welcomed this shift, it further highlighted economic disparities for others. This also resulted in learning setbacks for students. Meanwhile, COVID-19 resurfaced distrust between the Black community and the medical establishment that stems, in part, from the Tuskegee experiment.
COVID-19 was also the backdrop of the Black Lives Matter movement, which grew after video of the May 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer surfaced online.
Some of Wisconsin’s most vulnerable populations struggle to access COVID-19 vaccines, and volunteers and community groups are trying to erase barriers.
Read MoreAbigail Disney has parted with $72m – and thinks the rich need to pay far more. As COVID widens the inequality gap an international league of the super-rich are urging governments to take their money as increased taxes.
Read More$5 billion will go to farmers of color, who have lost 90 percent of their land over the past century because of systemic discrimination and a cycle of debt.
Read MoreAs Congress delays in passing COVID-19 relief legislation, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF) and BLM Grassroots unveiled a $3 million, nationwide fund to assist Black people who are struggling financially during the pandemic.
Read MoreKim Gallon creates a digital space, COVID Black, to memorialize each individual Black life that has been lost in the pandemic. COVID Black is intended to be a space of healing and create conversations about the future of Black health.
Read MoreThroughout its history, the United States has embraced its addiction to white supremacy and continues to export it to the rest of the world.
Read MoreThe vast majority of people being vaccinated right now are white and in younger age groups — figures that need to change in the coming weeks.
Read MoreBlack families, especially mothers, are struggling economically with the CoVid-19 pandemic.
Read MoreCoronavirus has sickened and killed 2-3 times more black people than whites. Black business owners are losing their livelihoods, as stay-at-home orders are put into place. Due to decades of racial segregation, they did not have valuable houses they could tap for capital. So Oregon earmarked $62 million of its $1.4 billion in federal Covid-19 relief money to provide grants to Black residents, business owners and community organizations struggling due to the pandemic. Now the state faces lawsuits from groups who feel left out of this “affirmative action.”
Read MoreAs this difficult year of racial reckoning and a global pandemic draws to a close, six African American families share how they have coped.
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