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Black History of Wisconsin, Part 4: Still Rising SHARE This is the last of a four-part series exploring the history and struggles Black Wisconsinites have endured. Read MILWAUKEE Growing up in Milwaukee, community organizer Angela Lang experienced “a tale of two cities.” Lang, the executive director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC), loved living in the predominantly Black Merrill Park neighborhood. “It’s where I feel at home,” she said. But she also saw how other people vilified her community, and felt the deep racial divides that existed between different parts of Milwaukee which remains one of the most segregated cities in the U.S. ....