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Today we will sigh with relief and tomorrow we’ll put ourselves aside and we’ll be there for them. ….

We survived it, but we didn’t need this, and this is a step toward healing these divides that we have.

Dr. Selika Ducksworth-Lawton

President, Uniting Bridges

– quoted in an April 20 WEAU 13 News report about the guilty verdict in the case of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of killing George Floyd.

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Was this teacher’s language provocative? Absolutely, it is clear his intent was to provoke deep thought about the racism that is experienced and perpetuated on a daily basis in this school and in our community. For this, he was escorted out of the building.

Cultivative Coalition

community organization

– quoted in an April 20 Chippewa Herald article about a Chippewa Falls High School teacher placed on administrative leave for using “offensive and inappropriate language” after a two-year-old video surfaced of him using the n-word in a classroom discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird.

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We know people are ready, people want to get out and play. It’s a smaller space than what they are used to with the old children’s museum, but they are still going to have a lot of fun.

MICHAEL MCHORNEY

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF EAU CLAIRE

– quoted in a March 26 WQOW-TV report about the Children’s Museum Play Space opening in its new location on Barstow Street.