| No Images? Click here  The Listen To America bus tour wrapped up its fourth week in Milwaukee.While there, Isabella Carapella sat down with Cotrell Wright. He owns a landscaping business in the area, and talked about how segregation in the city has affected him.“This is my hometown," he said. "My heart is here." But Cotrell went on to discuss the segregation that is part of the history of Milwaukee. “I don’t think [segregation is] the best way for the city to grow, and it doesn’t promote people who are progressive to want to stay in the city," he said. "I wasn’t exposed to the diversity of the world at a young age, so I thought that the only thing that I could do to make money or get the things I desire … was to do what everyone in my neighborhood was doing, which was selling drugs or robbing people or doing something illegal.”After serving three years in prison, he decided to start his own business.“In prison I actually learned a lot more than I learned in school," Cotrell said. "I had access to books, and I had a lot of time and I didn’t have the negative influences around me. … It really opened my eyes to my potential and some of the problems this city faces.”  Photo by John Hart/Wisconsin State JournalDairy farms operate 24/7, 365 days a year.A generation ago, immigration wasn’t a major issue for dairy farmers. Wisconsin’s agricultural landscape was dominated by small and medium-sized dairy farms run by the families that owned them. Today, though, the nation’s No. 2 milk-producing state is home to a growing number of large animal-feeding operations.Federal figures show that the number of workers on Wisconsin dairy farms has nearly doubled since 2006 — to about 14,000. Many of these workers are immigrants.HuffPost partnered with the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism to look into the industry’s relationship with immigration policy.
 Emmy Myers grew up in Milwaukee, which is known as a hub for human trafficking. She became a victim herself a few years ago. She said she objected to being sold for sex, and that her trafficker threatened to kill her nephews if she didn’t comply. He also confiscated her identification and the little money she had.She was able to get free, and now is the executive director of a nonprofit that aims to prevent trafficking and educate people on how to identify red flags that someone is in trouble. Toyota Corona, who hails from Milwaukee, and Stephanie Stone, a veteran drag queen in New York City, talked to HuffPost about their performing careers and their communities. Hey, Iowa!We’ll be in Des Moines on Monday. You can find the Listen To America bus outside the Salvation Army, or come to the Sussman Theater in the Olmsted Center of Drake University for a panel discussion about inequality.
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