Wesley Sparkman would like to say life for African-Americans in Madison has improved since he was pulled over by police for no reason other his Illinois license plates while attending the UW in the early 1990s. Unfortunately, Sparkman realizes much work needs to be done. He?s quick to quote statistics showing that nearly a third of black men under age 55 (and 47 percent of those ages 25-29) in Dane County are either in jail, on probation or under court supervision.
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