“The First Summer of the Rest Of Your Life”: Part One | Latavia Patterson, The Pearls Girl

Listen: Latavia and I met in the Pearls For Teen Girls office in the Brewer’s Hill neighborhood, where she felt incredibly at home. Understandably so — prior to becoming an alumnae of Pearls, she was the longest tenured Pearls Girl, having been with the program from 6th grade through the end of high school. What’s [...]

“The First Summer of the Rest Of Your Life”: Part One | Calvin Washington, The Coolest Person Ever

 
Listen: In this piece, you’ll hear Calvin Washington talk about his version of family. For him, his family extends into his entire network of friends around the neighborhood. It also just so happens that his family is very present around the house — during our interview at his kitchen table, there was a constant stream of [...]

“The First Summer of the Rest Of Your Life”: Part One | LaQuita Grinnage, The Very Extraordinary Unique Person

Listen: At first, I had difficulty describing the pieces we put together for campaigns like The First Summer of the Rest of Your Life. Where do they fit in the radio world? It’s not news reporting, they’re certainly not commercials, and they’re not quite rote human interest pieces. Currently, I think the pieces are best described [...]

“The First Summer of the Rest of Your Life”: An Introduction

There are a couple different ways to think about Summer in Milwaukee.  As the celebratory City of Festivals … and as a city, like so many other American cities, that spends the Summer months dealing with an increase in violent crime and the consequences of high school drop-out rates and lack of employment opportunities, like [...]