Building Bridges:   Today Not Tomorrow Fall Water Bearer Awardees.  We salute 6 community members for having the greatest love of all   Click HERE to read more.

Kwame McDonald: “A Giver of Life’s Opportunities,” by Betty Banks.  How does a person become an icon, a legend, and someone who belongs in the annals of time? I thought about this when my oldest brother, Kwame, JC McDonald passed this past October. Click HERE to read more.

This N That, by Betty Banks.  The Social Justice Center, located at 1202 Williamson Street is a collaboration of progressive non-profit organizations. The SJC was founded in 2000 when Wisconsin Community Fund, Madison Community Cooperative, Tenant Resource Center, and Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund teamed up to create a non-profit office center with a social justice focus.  Click HERE to read more.

I Go There by Hedi LaMarr Rudd.  A channel surfing session, back in the late 90's sparked my passion for local politics. A common council meeting where the decision whether to sunset the loitering ordinance was being aired and Mayor Soglin was presiding over the debate.  Click HERE to read more.

Honoring Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
by Bill Breitsprecher & BreitLinks

What Does Martin Luther King Day Mean to Children? by Bill Breitsprecher.  Many have heard the famous quote Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."  Click HERE to read more.

The Children's March & Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  By Bill Breitsprecher.  It was not all that long ago that Jim Crow laws made segregation and discrimination a part of life in America. While these laws existed primarily in the "old south," negative attitudes about diversity and legal barriers to integration existed all over America.  Click HERE to read more.

Inspiring Quotes by
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped.” Speaking on right-to-work laws in 1961

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

"The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, government relief for the destitute and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life. The captains of industry did not lead this transformation; they resisted it until they were overcome. When in the thirties the wave of union organization crested over the nation, it carried to secure shores not only itself but the whole society." Speech to the Illinois AFL-CIO, Oct. 7, 1965

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Strength to Love, 1963