Wauwatosa Activist Group Hosts Talk With Civil Rights Attorney

WAUWATOSA, WI — A Wauwatosa-based social justice group is set to host a virtual conversation Tuesday with a civil rights expert to talk about race, inequality and the law in Milwaukee County.

Tosa Together is scheduled to hold a virtual talk with scholar and attorney Vincent M. Southerland over Zoom. Emilio De Torre, director of the nonprofit Milwaukee Turners, is slated to host the event.

The talk is scheduled from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday. It will also be streamed on Tosa Together's Facebook page. Participants are required to register before the event.

The Intersection of Race, Inequality and the Law will cover subjects such as incarceration and the legal system and how that relates to the county.

Southerland became the executive director of the Center on Race, Inequality and the Law at New York University in 2017, according to the university website. Prior to his position, he served with the Federal Defenders for the Southern District of New York and as a senior council for the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

Before working for the Milwaukee Turners, De Torre worked for the ACLU of Wisconsin for 14 years, reported Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Tosa Together's founders started working together in 2016, according to the organization's website. The organization said its goals are to teach and research Wauwatosa's exclusionary past, learn from residents of color and challenge public officials who have the power to enact change, among other goals.