Obituary; Desire to Spread Good News Drove Weekly Paper Founder; Johnson's Fund Helped Budding Journalists

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › March 02, 2008

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Louvenia Johnson held many titles, including nurse, social worker, dress shop owner and teachers aide. And soon after retiring, she added another: chairwoman and co-founder of the Milwaukee Times.

"I had to do something at that period in my life," Johnson once said. "I could have walked away many times. You think of your commitment to the community."

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Obituary; Desire to Spread Good News Drove Weekly Paper Founder; Johnson's Fund Helped Budding Journalists

It was that commitment that motivated her to establish the weekly newspaper devoted to church news within the city's African-American community, and to use her retirement...

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