Category: Community

Morgridge Center for Public Service director’s letter to the editor thanking the Evjue Foundation for its support of the Badgers Volunteer program.

Noted: Comments from Everett Mitchell, pastor of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church and director of community relations at UW–Madison.

The Lake Rescue Team assisted divers from the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and officials with the UW-Madison’s Life Saving Station in searching for a 22-year old man reported missing on Lake Mendota on Saturday evening.

This will be about 120 miles,” said Officer John Deering. A team of officers from UW-Madison’s Police Department are trading in their typical uniforms for running gear. They are running relay-style from the steps of the Capitol to Stevens Point.

Noted: For example, one day, the district has invited Bucky Badger and representatives of the University of Wisconsin athletics program to meet the children. The district has also contacted the Milwaukee Brewers Racing Sausages for a visit.

Hundreds of people, including many of Madison’s top business and community leaders, gathered Friday night to hear how a group of influential African-American residents calling themselves the Justified Anger coalition plans to lead a broad-based attack on pronounced racial disparities in the city. … “It’s African-Americans coming together in ways I’ve not seen in my 30-plus years in this community,” Darrell Bazzell, vice chancellor for finance and administration at UW-Madison, told the crowd in his welcome.

“It’s the old idea to act locally,” UW-Madison Chief of Police Susan Riseling said. With help from the United Way, she is instituting a plan and task force, hoping to address the use of police force in Dane County. (Article also mentions Everett Mitchell, but does not identify him as UW-Madison director of community relations.)

“It’s the old idea to act locally,” UW-Madison Chief of Police Susan Riseling said. With help from the United Way, she is instituting a plan and task force, hoping to address the use of police force in Dane County.

The Boys and Girls Club if Dane County is working to change the undeniable problem of racial disparity in Madison through a paid summer internship program. UW-affiliated groups offering internships include UW Extension Plant Disease Diagnostics, UW Hospital and Clinics, UW Agricultural Lab, the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery and the Wisconsin Alumni Association.

Members of UW-Madison’s Black and Latino Law Student Associations are hoping a video they created will help as the community awaits a charging decision in the death of Tony Robinson. Qortney McLeod, co-president of the Black Law Student Association explains, “When you look around the country, and a lot of the things that are happening in, whether it be Ferguson or Baltimore or anywhere else, I think a part of the reason why people are so upset is because there’s not really an understanding of the process and the law behind what’s going in to making these decisions.”

A group of UW law students released a video Monday called, “Understanding Police use of Deadly Force.” They’re hoping this 14-minute educational video will help community members better understand the laws that surround deadly use of force and the legal review process that comes after an officer-involved shooting.

The video was put out by the University of Wisconsin Black Law Students Association and the Latino Law Students Association in response to the officer-involved shooting of 19-year-old Tony Robinson.

The 14-minute video was produced by members of organizations for black and Latino UW-Madison law students.

The Special Community/Police Task Force will be co-chaired by the Rev. Everett Mitchell of Christ the Solid Rock Baptist Church and UW-Madison Police Chief Susan Riseling. (Mitchell is also director of community relations for UW–Madison)

MILWAUKEE – Chris Limberg graduated from Racine Horlick High School and he is a UW-Madison alum.  Chris is on the front lines in mountain villages outside Kathmandu assisting those impacted by the earthquake in Nepal.

Amid recent protests following the fatal officer-involved shooting of Tony Robinson, pastor and attorney Everett Mitchell sought to educate Madison’s youth and community on their rights when interacting with police. Members of the Madison community gathered Tuesday night to hear Mitchell, who’s also director of community relations at the University of Wisconsin, discuss complexities of the criminal justice system.