With the bang of the 4th of July, fireworks are the far more troubling sounds of gunfire across the City of Milwaukee in the last week and a half. Thirteen children under the age of 18 have been shot in the last 10 days, including two boys who were killed in the last two days.
“Every time we lose a child, it means we need to get up out of our seats, come out of those rooms and come to the streets where things are a problem,” André Lee Ellis, Founder and Executive Director of the André Lee Ellis & Co. Community Garden said. “If goodness is out there in abundance, trouble will have to cease.”
Ellis runs Community Agricultural Growing Experience, or CAGE, a mission to bring in young Black men to help rehabilitate and grow by teaching agriculture and how it will benefit them in their lives. On a sweltering Wednesday afternoon, Ellis isn’t the only one on his hands and knees picking weeds. There’s always bound to be a couple of teenagers too.
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