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After 13 months of limbo, Milwaukee Rep has returned to live performances with concert show 'First Lady of Song.'

Press Release Milwaukee Repertory Theater Presents Making the Invisible Visible: A Celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Culture, Art & Activism With Series of Virtual Offerings in May By Milwaukee Repertory Theater - Apr 26th, 2021 02:39 pm April 26, 2021 (Milwaukee, WI) – May is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and Milwaukee Repertory Theater is offering several virtual opportunities to hear from AAPI artists and leaders with Making the Invisible Visible: A Celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Culture, Art & Activism. Giv...

Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times Watching the verdict of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty on all charges for last May’s murder of George Floyd, brought Mark Clements, a survivor of police violence, back to 2010. “You’re looking at a Chicago Police torture survivor myself, who spent over 28 years of life hemmed up inside a prison, where no one cared ... to watch a verdict come back, I was just as happy watching that verdict as I was watching when Jon Burge was found guilty for lying about police torture in the city of Chicago,” Clements told a crowd of...

Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times Hundreds of people gathered in front of the Logan Square Monument Friday evening, holding signs demanding justice for 13-year-old Adam Toledo, who was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer in Little Village late last month. “You have allowed police officers to traumatize us,” Mark Clements, a survivor of police violence, told the crowd. “We are out here because we watched a child gunned down by the Chicago police. Where’s the integrity?” Clements said. “I want this whole park to rock,” Clements shouted. “We’re showing [Mayor] Lori Lightfo...

Credit: Grace Hauck/Twitter A rally was held Friday evening in the Chicago neighborhood of Logan Square, demanding justice for 13-year-old shooting victim Adam Toledo. The crowd congregated in Logan Square Park, where several of the speakers called for defunding and abolishing the Chicago Police Department. Other speakers presented demands for rent control, better jobs, and increased funding for youth-oriented social programs. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, organizers expressed that these things could be accomplished with a reduction of funding for the Chicago Police Department. USA Tod...