Walking the Talk on 'Black-On-Black' Crime in Urban Communities

Last month, Milwaukee activist Tory Lowe walked from his local government’s city hall to Chicago’s city hall in protest of the rising homicide rates we all keep reading about. Whether such upticks are a disturbing trend or an anomaly in the larger scheme of things, communities are seeking answers for how to live with increased violence today. Last week, Chicago suffered its deadliest day in 12 years when eight people were shot, each of them in different districts across the city. It’s stories like this that ignited Lowe’s “Stop the Violence Walk for Peace,” which took him five days to complete.

Lowe is a familiar face at anti-violence vigils and rallies around Milwaukee, but is mostly unaffiliated with any major organization doing work in this arena. Speaking about his walk to Chicago with the Urban News Service, Lowe said, “We don’t pay enough attention to black-on-black crime, so I walked to find solutions to these senseless acts of violence.”