DiverCity: Exploring Multi-Cultural Milwaukee

The Milwaukee college students heard from a local Holocaust survivor about the power of hope. They learned about the rich history of African-Americans in Wisconsin. And they rounded out the tour in a Brookfield Mosque, where they were welcomed with dinner and heard a call to prayer.

It was called DiverCity, a venture created by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Milwaukee and Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center. The goal: to explore multi-cultural Milwaukee. DiverCity was put on Oct. 25 in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Cardinal Stritch University, Marquette University, and Alverno College. A team of UWM students in a freshman journalism Living Learning Community brought along their reporters’ notebooks and cameras to tell the stories of the stops above (click on the red map icons below to also see student photos at each stop).