MCJ publisher honored by city for Black History Month!

  The city of Milwaukee posted this salue to Black history maker and Milwaukee Community Journal Publisher Patricia O’Flynn Pattillo. She is one of 28 Black trailblazers being honored by […]

MCJ publisher honored by city for Black History Month!

 

The city of Milwaukee posted this salue to Black history maker and Milwaukee Community Journal Publisher Patricia O’Flynn Pattillo. She is one of 28 Black trailblazers being honored by the city during its ‘28 Days of Black History.’ 

Pattillo is the founder, CEO, and publisher of the Milwaukee Community Journal, the largest African-American newspaper in Wisconsin since 1976. In 1987 she became the first female president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association-Black Press of America. 

After losing her 29-year-old son Terence to an asthma attack in 1991, she set up the Dr. Terence N. Thomas Scholarship Fund, which has provided more than $1 million in stipends to low-income students and students of color in Milwaukee. In 2015 she was inducted into the Milwaukee Press Club’s Wisconsin Media Hall of Fame.