David Dahmer

1 week ago | madison365.com | David Dahmer |A. David Dahmer

“I always wanted to write a book about my family story and the civil rights movement, but also layer that with Black history,” Percy Brown Jr. tells Madison365.

2 weeks ago | madison365.com | David Dahmer

The Sánchez Scholars, a local program that offers first-generation Latinx youth an articulated pathway with scholarship support from ninth grade through a college degree, will be celebrating a quarter century with a special Sánchez Scholars Program 25th Anniversary Celebration this Friday, April 11, at 5:30 p.m. at the Madison College Truax. There are so many students who have come through the program over the years that have formed a rather large Sánchez Scholars family.

2 weeks ago | madison365.com | David Dahmer

The Sánchez Scholars, a local program that offers first-generation Latinx youth an articulated pathway with scholarship support from ninth grade through a college degree, will be celebrating a quarter century with a special Sánchez Scholars Program 25th Anniversary Celebration this Friday, April 11, at the Madison College Truax. There are so many students who have come through the program over the years that have formed a rather large Sánchez Scholars family.

2 weeks ago | madison365.com | David Dahmer |A. David Dahmer

The nonprofit social justice/social service agency JustDane (founded as Madison-area Urban Ministry) is reviving its annual Jazz for Justice event this year at Cafe CODA on Madison’s East Side on Thursday, May 8, 6-10 p.m. Jazz for Justice will be a night of amazing music celebrating another year of the impact of JustDane in the Dane County community and will feature the bands of Hanah Jon Taylor, a distinguished jazz saxophonist and flutist who owns Cafe CODA, and Dee Alexander, the host of...

3 weeks ago | madison365.com | David Dahmer

“I’m super energized to be working with young people. I think we talk a lot about the youth not being plugged in or not paying attention to what’s going on or not being engaged, but I think the CEOs of Tomorrow program is a great example that young people really do know what’s going on,” says DeAndre Martin, the new executive director of CEOs of Tomorrow Inc. “Oftentimes, they aren’t given the opportunity to share their brilliance and to share how they would go about changing something.