Community leaders LaMarr Billups and Stephen Braunginn will receive the Urban League’s Whitney M. Young Jr. Award at the organization’s annual fundraiser, Spring Into Jazz, May 20 at Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center.
….Braunginn was the first director of multicultural affairs for the Wisconsin Alumni Association, a teacher in the Madison schools, a member of the South Madison Advisory Committee and a Dane County supervisor. Billups is a special assistant to the UW chancellor, and previously was a legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold. He has been an active local volunteer, civic planner and political activist.