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Black Music Month: The Great Ladies of Jazz

Ella Fitzgerald

Billie Holiday

Sarah Vaughan

Dinah Washington

Nina Simone

Bessie Smith

Carmen McRae

Abby Lincoln

Dianne Reeves

Betty Carter

Shirley Horn

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Etta James

Ernestine Anderson

Esperanza Spalding

Outreach Community Health Centers hosts U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin for 'Maternal Round Table'

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On Friday June 4, 2021, Outreach Community Health Centers (OCHC) hosted a Maternal Round Table with U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin at their 210 W. Capitol Drive location. The event included conversation with mothers, public health stakeholders, and community leaders on the need to reverse the trend of rising maternal mortality rates, lose health disparities that put Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and their kids at greater risk of adverse health outcomes, and improved maternal health outcomes in Wisconsin. In the last 25 years, while pregnancy-related mortality ratios fell 44 percent around the world, the American maternal mortality rate increased: moms are now more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes in the United States than in any other high-income country in the world. The situation is even worse for Black women, who are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from giving birth than their white counterparts. An NCON Communications Publication

Pictured at the event are (back row, from left) WI Office of Sen. Baldwin Executive Director Tiffany Henry; OCHC Board Chairman Warner Jackson; Black Child Development Founding Member Wanda Montgomery; OCHC Obstetrician and Gynecologist Dr. Hilary Evans, WERISE Doula Program members Eve Rhodes, Jaymina Hardy and Kiara Schott; African American Breastfeeding Network (AABN) Khola Cooksey; AABN Co-Founder and Executive Director Dalvery Blackwell; Wisconsin State Representative David Bowen; OCHC Director of Marketing Penelope Stewart; (seated front row, from left) United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County Vice President Community Impact Nicole Angresano; UW School of Medicine and Public Health Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families Collaborative Coach Pat Batemon; US Senator Tammy Baldwin; and The National Coalition for Healthy Black Families, Inc. Tonda Thompson. www.milwaukeetimesnews.com

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On Saturday, June 5, 2021, the Brew City Cowboys Resource Center hosted a community barbecue and trail ride for members and friends of the organization. The cookout took place at the Paluso Guest Farm located in Kewaskum, about an hour north of Milwaukee. It was a day full of horseback riding, great food, and friendship. The Black Cowboys spent much of the time taking care of their horses, and participating in the fun. Even with temperatures in the 90's, attendees enjoyed a wide variety of food, conversation and interaction with the many horses on the ranch. The Brew City Cowboys tagline "We Ride For The Kids" was also on display, with guided rides for children from the city to help inspire their passion for equestrianism. For more information hon how to get involved visit the Brew City Cowboys on Facebook at https://www. facebook.com/Brew-City-Cowboys-Resource-CenterInc-1045275874737685.

The Milwaukee Times hosts first 'Summer Mixer' The Milwaukee Times held its first Summer Mixer on Thursday, June 5, 2021 at Garfields 502 on a beautiful spring night and it was a huge success! More than 25 Black business owners and professionals including Kelli Macon of My Choice Wisconsin, Karen James of Creations & Design by KCJ, Kendrick Watkins, author and owner of So You Can Write Publications, LLC, and Arletta Slaughter Weddings & Events were in attendance. Deshea Agee and his assistant Diana of the Historic King Drive BID graciously sponsored all three Summer Mixers and joined The Milwaukee Times' Lynda Jackson-Conyers, Publisher and Carmen Murguia, Marketing Manager. The Milwaukee Times' next Summer Mixer is being held on Thursday, July 8, from 5-7 p.m. at Mi Casa, Su Cafe, 1835 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. For more information, call Carmen at 414-263-5088.

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Black Music Month: The Great Ladies of Jazz You can't celebrate Black Music Month without mentioning the 'Great Ladies of Jazz.' They are the pioneers and inspiration for many of today's artists like Beyoncé and Chaka Khan. And their phenomenal voices have given us some of our most classic American songs, that are still sung by artists today. So let's learn more about our 'Great Ladies of Jazz.

Ella Fitzgerald Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella. In 1993, after a career of nearly 60 years, she gave her last public performance. Three years later, she died at the age of 79. Her accolades included fourteen Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Billie Holiday Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), known professionally as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who liked her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall. She was a successful concert perwww.milwaukeetimesnews.com

former throughout the 1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Her final album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July 17, 1959 at age 44. She won four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. She was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame. Several films about her life have been released.

or so-called "cocktail piano". She was told in the nightclub that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, which effectively launched her career as a jazz vocalist. She went on to record more than 40 albums between 1958 and 1974, making her debut with Little Girl Blue. She had a hit single in the United States in 1958 with "I Loves You, Porgy". Her musical style fused gospel and pop with classical music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice. In 1993, she settled near Aix-en-Provence in southern France (Bouches-du-Rhône). In the same year, her final album, A Single Woman, was released. During a 1998 performance in Newark, she anSarah Vaughan nounced, "If you're going to Sarah Lois Vaughan (March come see me again, you've got 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was to come to France, because an American jazz singer. I am not coming back."She Nicknamed "Sassy" and suffered from breast cancer "The Divine One", she won for several years before she four Grammy Awards, in- died in her sleep at her home cluding the Lifetime Achieve- in Carry-le-Rouet (Bouchment Award. She was given es-du-Rhône), on April 21, an NEA Jazz Masters Award 2003. in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century".

Nina Simone Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned a broad range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. The sixth of eight children born to a poor family in Tryon, North Carolina, Simone initially aspired to be a concert pianist. With the help of a few supporters in her hometown, she enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. To make a living, Simone started playing piano at a nightclub in Atlantic City. She changed her name to "Nina Simone" to disguise herself from family members, having chosen to play "the devil's music"

Fame in 1993.

hit nor did she ever receive a Grammy. But, on the other hand, she never made a bad record nor compromised her high standards. On November 10, 1994, McRae died at her home in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 74.[1] She had fallen into a semi-coma four days earlier, a month after being hospitalized for a stroke. On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Carmen McRae among hunBessie Smith dreds of artists whose mateBessie Smith (April 15, rial was reportedly destroyed 1894 – September 26, 1937) in the 2008 Universal fire. was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era and was a major influence on fellow blues singers, as well as jazz vocalists. Born in Chattanooga, Ten- Betty Carter nessee, Smith was young Betty Carter (born Lillie when her parents died, and Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – she and her siblings survived September 26, 1998) was an by performing on street cor- American jazz singer known ners. She began touring and for her improvisational techperformed in a group that in- nique, scatting and other cluded Ma Rainey, and then complex musical abilities went out on her own. Her that demonstrated her vocal successful recording career talent and imaginative interwith Columbia Records be- pretation of lyrics and melogan in the 1920s, but her per- dies. Vocalist Carmen McRae forming career was cut short once remarked: "There's realby a car crash that killed her ly only one jazz singer—only at the age of 43. one: Betty Carter." Carter continued to perform, tour, and record, as well as search for new talent until she was Dinah Washington diagnosed with pancreatDinah Washington (born ic cancer in the summer of Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1998. She died on September 1924 – December 14, 1963) 26, 1998, at the age of 69, was an American singer and and was later cremated. pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and Carmen McRae recorded in a wide variety of Carmen Mercedes McRae styles including blues, R&B, (April 8, 1920 – November and traditional pop music, 10, 1994) was an American and gave herself the title of jazz singer. She is considered "Queen of the Blues". one of the most influential Early in the morning of jazz vocalists of the 20th December 14, 1963, Wash- century and is remembered ington's sixth husband, foot- for her behind-the-beat ball great Dick "Night Train" phrasing and ironic interpreLane, went to sleep with tation of lyrics. Abbey Lincoln Washington and awoke latEight years younger than Anna Marie Wooldridge er to find her slumped over her idol, Billie Holiday, Car- (August 6, 1930 – August 14, and not responsive. Dr. B. C. men McRae was a contem- 2010), known professionalRoss pronounced her dead porary of Ella Fitzgerald and ly as Abbey Lincoln, was an at the scene at age 39 due to Sarah Vaughan. Ella and Sar- American jazz vocalist, songa lethal combination of pre- ah were already well estab- writer, and actress. She was a scription drugs. She is buried lished by the time Carmen civil rights activist beginning in the Burr Oak Cemetery in came onto the scene, but it in the 1960s.[1][2] Lincoln Alsip, Illinois. wasn’t long before Carmen made a career not only out She was a 1986 inductee was considered their artistic of delivering deeply felt preof the Alabama Jazz Hall of equal, although she never sentations of standards but Fame, and was inducted into achieved their wide poputhe Rock and Roll Hall of larity. She never had a huge (Continued on pg.10) An NCON Communications Publication

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By Rev. Judith T. Lester, B.Min. M.Th

Fatherhood Strengthening (Week 2) “Children are a blessing and a gift from the Lord.” - Psalm 127:3 The Pathways for Fathers and Families is a program sponsored by the Milwaukee County Department of Child Support Services which is dedicated to ensuring that all children are supported by both parents whenever possible, with the mission to promote family stability, creating a better quality of life for the children of Milwau- age 24 who lives in Milwaukee County. kee County. Pathways for Fathers and Families is a dynamic program designed to strengthen father-child engagement, improve employment and economic opportunities, and improve healthy relationships in your life.

Pathways invites fathers to join and get involved in three blended core program services and workshops which will be abbreviated here.

Responsible parenting Pathways Responsible Parenting workshops cover topPathways serves biological ics such as: fathers, expectant and adop- • Child development and behaviors tive fathers, stepfathers, or a • How to establish positive person who is serving as a communication with chilfather figure for a dependent dren child or young adult up to

• Financial literacy • Identifying safe/unsafe and healthy/unhealthy re- Next Week: Continuation lationship patterns realistic for everyday life General Disclaimer: The writer has used her best efforts in prepaEconomic stability ration of this information. No Economic workshops and representations or warranties for custom services will help its contents, either expressed or imwith: plied, are offered. Neither the pub• Employment lisher nor the writer shall be liable • Child support budgets in any way for readers’ efforts to • Career exploration apply, rely or utilize the informa• Information about intern- tion or recommendations presented ships and other paid and herein as they may not be suitable unpaid work opportunities for you or necessarily appropriate • Skills for effective co-parFor more information re- for every situation to which they enting • Strategies for becoming an garding programs offered may refer. In some instances, this by Pathways for Fathers and article contains the opinions, coninvolved father • The importance of finan- Families or to join a program clusions and/or recommendations cially providing for chil- in our area, contact the Mil- of the writer. If you would like waukee Fatherhood Initiative to contact Rev. Lester, write to her dren or visit Pathways for Fathers c/o P.O. Box 121, Brookfield, and Families online at: Healthy marriage/ WI. 53008. https://pathwaysmilwaurelationship These workshops and cus- keecounty.org/programs/ tom services will help fathers For the next two weeks, and couples work on skills this column will offer activilike: ties fathers and their children • Communication can engage in to increase • Handling conflict • Reducing domestic vio- their quality time together. You don’t want to miss it!!!! lence

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Sunday, June 13, 2021 Christian Fellowship Community Church 2176 North 39th Street • Milwaukee, WI 53208 MORNING SPEAKER: 11:00 A.M. Pastor Rev. Dr. Joyce Thornton, Texas Committed to Christ International Ministries Member of the T.D. Jakes Potter House International Ministries

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The 15 most useful websites for college students

It’s a good time to be a college student. Whereas students from less than two decades ago had to schlep to the library to research encyclopedias every time they had an assignment, students today don’t even have to attend a brick-and-mortar college, if they don’t want to. The internet provides a vast amount of resources for students to navigate their higher education. These websites help students learn more about degree programs, learn about their future professions, study for tests, choose which professor to take classes from, and so much more. Here’s our list of 15 of the most helpful websites out there for college students:

1. Quizlet Gone are the days of spending hours writing out notecards and getting a cramped hand in the meantime. Quizlet helps you study for literally any class you may be taking by offering simple, free learning tools like flashcards, games, and more.

8. Habitica Life in and out of college is made a whole lot easier by forming good habits. Thankfully, in today’s world, there’s an app to help you get there. Habitica “gamifies your life” by helping you achieve goals in a fun way. The app tracks your progress and grants rewards for productivity.

grammar anywhere you are typing on the web browser, and it is far more advanced than your typical Word spell check. It will even suggest better words to use and has a thesaurus available on hand. 3. Wolfram Alpha Like a search engine on steroids, Wolfram Alpha is a site that allows you to do calculations of all kinds, including math, science, nutrition, engineering, and more. Wolfram Alpha has a seemingly endless source of facts, data, and information to help get you through your class assignments.

here to help. This site has an incredible free testband full of past exams from your own schools and professors. You can also find course reviews, grade distributions, and other study resources to help you ace your next test.

5. wikiHow College is a time when you have to learn to do a lot of things all on your own, and not just relating to homework and studying. wikiHow is an amazing resource for college students in and out of the classroom, allowing you to learn everything from 2. Grammarly how to do laundry to manYour professors will aging a budget. The tutorials LOVE you for using this 4. Koofers are easy to digest and come one. Grammarly is a widIf you’ve ever wanted to with helpful images. get available for download get access to old exams to that will correct spelling and help you study, Koofers is 6. theSkimm College students easily get wrapped up in all things school-related, but as voting-aged adults, it’s important to keep up on current events. theSkimm is a daily email newsletter you can sign up for to make reading the news easy, engaging, and even funny.

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7. eFollett If you’re spending an arm and a leg buying textbooks every year, stop it! Sites like eFollet make it ever so simple to buy or rent required books for your classes with no hassle (or sticker-shock over the price).

9. StudyBlue As far as we’re concerned, you can never have too many useful study resources. Like Quizlet, StudyBlue helps you prepare for tests with handy online flashcards, excellent resources for organizing class notes, and more. You can even share study materials with other students around the world.

12. Indeed Soon enough you’ll be on the hunt for a career in your field of study, and Indeed is a great way to get you there. This nationwide website helps you look for jobs in any industry. It’s more credible than Craigslist and will allow you to upload your resume, can suggest similar jobs, and sends you new job posting alerts.

13. Google Drive We can’t go without mentioning the world’s easiest cloud-based storage service. If you have Gmail, you’re probably already using it. But for those unfamiliar: Google Drive is a free service that allows you to create, store, and access files from anywhere in the world where you have an 10. Wikipedia internet connection. You’ll While Wikipedia must never have to worry about come with a caveat, we still saving a paper to your comthink it’s certainly worth puter and losing the data. mentioning on this list. As You can also create files that your professors have proba- can be edited by multiple bly already told you, it’s im- people, so it’s a must-have portant to be wary of inaccu- for group projects. racies on Wikipedia. But the site is still a great resource 14. TED Talks for getting familiar with basic As interesting and inspirfacts about any topic. And if ing as they are informative, you check the resources list- TED Talks are a great way to ed at the bottom for validi- learn about the world around ty and credibility, there’s no you, learn about industries, reason you can’t use them in and come up with new ideas your upcoming term paper. for class projects. 11. The Owl Memorizing APA and MLA formatting can seem like a nearly impossible task. Luckily, you don’t have to cram all the information in your brain thanks to websites like The Owl. This site was created by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab and helps guide you through the formatting of any papers you’ll have to write during your college experience. The site has extensive information about research and citation.

15. RealCalc In today’s world, there’s no need to fork out cash for an expensive calculator. RealCalc is a scientific calculator you can download to your phone or computer and use to accomplish almost any math assignment you may have. Looking for a degree program or trying to finish one off ? Independence University has excellent options for students looking to better their careers and their lives. Learn more about our degree programs.

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eponymous album, featuring Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, and Tony Williams, was nominated for a Grammy Award. She went on to win five Grammy Awards. (Continued from pg. 3) Reeves performed at the writing and singing her own closing ceremony of the material. Lincoln died on 2002 Winter Olympics in August 14, 2010, in Manhat- Salt Lake City. In 2005, she tan, eight days after her 80th appeared in the film Good Night, And Good Luck singing birthday. 1950s standards (including "How High the Moon", "I've Got My Eyes on You", "Too Close for Comfort", "Straighten Up and Fly Right" and "One for My Baby"). In 2006 the soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Dianne Reeves Dianne Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan, into a musical family. Her father sang, her mother played trumpet, her uncle is bassist Charles Burrell, and her cousin is George Duke. Her father died when she was two years old, and she was raised in Denver, Colorado, by her mother, Vada Swanson, and maternal family. In 1971 she started singing and playing piano. She was a member of her high school band, and while performing at a convention in Chicago was noticed by trumpeter Clark Terry, who invited her to sing with him. She studied classical voice at the University of Colorado. Reeves moved to Los Angeles, where she sang and recorded with a number of well known artists. Later, she would move to New York City and from 1983 to 1986 toured with Harry Belafonte. She signed with Blue Note in 1987 and that year her

including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, Ron Carter, Carmen McRae, Wynton Marsalis and others. She was most noted for her ability to accompany herself with nearly incomparable independence and ability on the piano while singing, something described by arranger Johnny Mandel as "like having two heads". A breast cancer survivor, she had been battling diabetes when she died of complications from the condition, at age 71. On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Shirley Horn among hundreds of artists whose mateDee Dee Bridgewater rial was reportedly destroyed Dee Dee Bridgewater (née in the 2008 Universal fire. Denise Garrett, May 27, 1950) is an American jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress. For 23 years, she was the host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassa- Etta James dor for the Food and AgriJamesetta Hawkins (Janculture Organization. uary 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012), known professionally as Etta James, was an AmerShirley Horn Shirley Valerie Horn (May ican singer who performed 1, 1934 – October 20, 2005) in various genres, including was an American jazz sing- blues, R&B, soul, rock and er and pianist. She collabo- roll, jazz and gospel. Startrated with many jazz greats ing her career in 1954, she

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gained fame with hits such as "The Wallflower", "At Last", "Tell Mama", "Something's Got a Hold on Me", and "I'd Rather Go Blind". She faced a number of personal problems, including heroin addiction, severe physical abuse, and incarceration, before making a musical comeback in the late 1980s with the album Seven Year Itch. James's powerful, deep, earthy voice bridged the gap between rhythm and blues and rock and roll. She won six Grammy Awards and 17 Blues Music Awards. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, the Grammy Hall of

Fame in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2001. Rolling Stone magazine ranked James number 22 on its list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time; she was also ranked number 62 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Billboard's 2015 list of The 35 Greatest R&B Artists Of All Time includes James, whose "gutsy, take-no-prisoner vocals colorfully interpreted everything from blues and R&B/soul to rock n’roll, jazz and gospel". James was diagnosed with leukemia in early 2011. The illness became terminal, she died on January 20, 2012.

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Dr. Bashir Easter: Our COVID-19 survey. We are surveying all participants about the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic with our COVID-19 Participant Experience (COPE) survey. The survey includes physical and mental health, employment and income, and substance use questions. The impact of COVID-19 can be found around the world, but it isn’t affecting everyone equally. As you just Milwaukee Times: Dr. mentioned with the AfricanEaster, last week we talked American community, some about how All of Us is a groups of people are being research program and not hit harder than others. It’s just a study. Can you tell us important to find out why. what impact the program is Research like the COPE having related to COVID-19? survey can help.

As we wrap of this set of interviews about the All of Us Research Program, we want to focus on how All of Us has already had an impact during the pandemic. Bashir Easter, Ph.D., Assistant Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison All of Us team at the Center for Community Engagement and Health Partnerships in Milwaukee has that conversation with us.

Dr. Bashir Easter: The scale and diversity of All of Us puts it in a unique spot to help COVID-19 research efforts. The program is helping in three ways. First, antibody testing. We have tested samples from participants who joined in early 2020 to help researchers better understand the origins and spread of COVID-19 in the U.S.

Milwaukee Times: Finally, what’s the third way All of Us is helping in COVID-19 research?

Dr. Bashir Easter: With Electronic Health Records data standards. We are gathering COVID-19 information from participants’ electronic health records. This data might help researchers learn more about symptoms and Milwaukee Times: related health problems. The Understanding that has records might also reveal the been crucial to the African effects of different drugs American community. and treatments. What’s the second way All of Us is helping? Milwaukee Times: Dr. Easter, thank you for this

Where Are We Now?” The Health Institute panelists are the following:

Dr. Bashir Easter important series that allowed us to learn more about All of Us. Is there anything else you want to add before we sign off.

• Dr. Patricia McManus, Co-Founder and President & CEO of the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin, Inc.

Dr. Bashir Easter: We will definitely be back, but for now, check out our All of Us MKE Facebook page for upcoming details about our Addressing Systemic Racism series. Last year, on Juneteenth, we launched our series, and on June 18, 2021 from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m., we are bringing back • Sheri Johnson, our original panel under the topic, “Addressing Systemic Ph.D., Director, UW Racism: One Year Later. Madison Population

• Beverly Hutcherson, M.S., Administrative Director, The Ladder at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health Visit our All of Us MKE Facebook page for the Zoom link, which is coming soon. Then, do your own research about the All of Us Research Program there and then nationally, by going to www.joinallofus.org. You can also call us at (414) 882-1376.