For Black Millennials in Sacramento, The Pandemic Is Widening The Wealth Gap Listen
Kayla Green at her Sacramento home, Tuesday, May 11, 2021.
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Last year before the pandemic, 28-year-old Tyler McClure was hoping to start his own nonprofit. He’d been working as an after-school coordinator for years, but he was finally feeling stable enough to start looking for grants to go out on his own.
But then the pandemic happened, and he got a pay cut at his day job. Since, McClure says he’s had to put his plans for the future on hold.
“So, I had to stay at my nine-to-five,” he said. “The nine-to-five, I don’t look down on it at all. But in my [job], it’s kind of paycheck-to-paycheck, and so having to stay in that kind of had me shift my goals around a little bit.”
Milwaukee Opera Theatre ‘zoirèe’ premieres a new musical, In the Clouds . It’s fun. By Dominique Paul Noth - Jan 25th, 2021 03:23 pm //end headline wrapper ?>Clouds. (Pixabay License).
I was pleased to be invited to the rather intimate online premiere of the Milwaukee Opera Theatre’s first “Zoirèe,” rather mischievously named to conjure up images of those exclusive salons or private home soirees where cultural insiders gathered in small groups to see new stage or concert works – only now we do it on Zoom.
This one, a conversational recitative for three commissioned from local composer
In the Cloud: A Virtual Musical, skips among three humble locales in smooth editing and musical emotional high spots as a typical family copes with the quarantine. The music is pleasant and meaningful. It nicely hits all the familiar isolation realities of our mutual pandemic, the daughter stuck in her apartment with only her caring dad being po
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FLUSHING The Flushing Garden Club is carrying on its yearly tradition to help beautify the community by hanging holiday swags outside local churches and buildings throughout the village.
For more than 70 years, the club has been involved in a community beautification project in which members create flower arrangements, wreaths and swags to adorn various buildings throughout town during the holidays. This year has been no different, with the club creating around 17 swags that they then donated and hung outside local establishments including Alliance Church, Christian Church, Methodist Church, Rock Hill Church, Trinity Church, Victoria Read Library, and the Wayne L. Hays Apartments.