CURTO

Soup with Substance is bringing the flavor by centering latinx stories and resources to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.

Please join us tomorrow, Wednesday Oct 1st for this powerful conversation. 🌺

📅: Oct 1st
📍: AMU Lunda Room
⏰: 12:00 - 12:50 pm

BLEST Hub’s 2025 State of the Ecosystem Report highlights both the work of the initiative over the year and key findings across various projects, highlighting young people’s voices, opportunities for collaboration and synergy, and exciting developments across the region.

Learn more here or via CURTOs website:
https://www.marquette.edu/urban-research-
teaching-outreach/documents/blesthub-state-of-the-ecosystem-2025_final.pdf

Meet Dr. Robert Smith! He is CURTO's director and a Marquette professor. His research and teaching interests include African American history, civil rights history, and exploring the intersections of race and law. Rob is the author of Black Liberation from Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter in the Debating American History Series, and Race, Labor & Civil Rights: Griggs v. Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity. Rob also serves on the Board of Curators for the Wisconsin Historical Society, is the Resident Historian for America’s Black Holocaust Museum, and is Chair of the Milwaukee County Human Rights Commission.