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A Public AffairAdding Tears to the Sparkle of Pride
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow celebrates Pride month with two guests in the studio: Alder Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford and Alder Sean O’Brian, who both serve Madison’s east side. They highlight the important work of LGBTQ+ leaders at a time when attacks on queer and trans folks are being promoted by the Trump administration.
Muldrow opens the show by talking about how in this political climate, Pride feels full of conflicting emotions. It calls for people’s most exuberant selves, but there’s no crying in glitter. Martinez-Rutherford says there’s a lot of cr...2025-06-1852 minA Public AffairAdding Tears to the Sparkle of Pride
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow celebrates Pride month with two guests in the studio: Alder Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford and Alder Sean O’Brian, who both serve Madison’s east side. They highlight the important work of LGBTQ+ leaders at a time when attacks on queer and trans folks are being promoted by the Trump administration.
Muldrow opens the show by talking about how in this political climate, Pride feels full of conflicting emotions. It calls for people’s most exuberant selves, but there’s no crying in glitter. Martinez-Rutherford says there’s a lot of cr...2025-06-1852 minA Public AffairHow Aid is Being Weaponized in Gaza
On today’s program, Allen Ruff speaks with friend of the show, Mouin Rabbani, about Yasser Abu Shabab, the continuing genocide in Gaza, the chaos created by US-backed aid organizations, and Israel’s military and political interventions in surrounding states like Syria, Yemen, and Iran.
Rabbani describes how the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a joint US-Israel project, is weaponizing aid in order to gain control over the distribution of supplies. The GHF’s former leader, Jake Wood, was an exorbitantly paid US mercenary and well known Christian Zionist, resigned last month saying the organization couldn...2025-06-1200 minA Public AffairA Safe, Decent, Affordable Home for Everyone
On today’s show, host Matvei Mozhaev speaks with Maria Foscarinis, a principal architect of the 1987 McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, the first major piece of federal legislation to address homelessness. They discuss her recent book, And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness in America, which details the impact of homelessness on people’s lives and argues that ending homelessness in the US requires the recognition of housing as a basic human right.
Foscarinis discusses the last four decades of the homeless crisis in the US. She started her career when Regan came...2025-06-1151 minA Public AffairA Safe, Decent, Affordable Home for Everyone
On today’s show, guest host Matvei Mozhaev speaks with Maria Foscarinis, a principal architect of the 1987 McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, the first major piece of federal legislation to address homelessness. They discuss her recent book, And Housing for All: The Fight to End Homelessness in America, which details the impact of homelessness on people’s lives and argues that ending homelessness in the US requires the recognition of housing as a basic human right.
Foscarinis discusses the last four decades of the homeless crisis in the US. She started her career when Regan...2025-06-1151 minA Public AffairWhat’s in Madison’s Water?
On today’s show, host Greg Michaud interviews Joe Grande, the Water Resources Manager at Madison Water Utility. They discuss what’s in Madison’s drinking water, how consumers can have confidence in their tap water and stop buying bottled water, and what Madison Water Utility does to determine if water is meeting standards, as is disclosed in the recent Annual Drinking Water Quality Report.
Grande describes how Madisonians get their tap water, which typically is sourced from 1-3 of Madison’s 20 wells. To produce their annual report, the Utility samples roughly 27,000 times over the...2025-06-1100 minA Public AffairWhat’s in Madison’s Water?
On today’s show, guest host Greg Michaud interviews Joe Grande, the Water Resources Manager at Madison Water Utility. They discuss what’s in Madison’s drinking water, how consumers can have confidence in their tap water and stop buying bottled water, and what Madison Water Utility does to determine if water is meeting standards, as is disclosed in the recent Annual Drinking Water Quality Report.
Grande describes how Madisonians get their tap water, which typically is sourced from 1-3 of Madison’s 20 wells. To produce their annual report, the Utility samples roughly 27,000 times ove...2025-06-1100 minA Public AffairAI Data Centers are Coming to Wisconsin
On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes unpacks the future of AI in the state of Wisconsin. He’s in conversation with Brett Korte who describes why big tech companies are looking to Wisconsin as the future home of their data centers. Wisconsin happens to be water rich, and these data centers require water. But Korte says that Great Lakes water is governed by compacts with lots of stakeholders, making water harder to access. Korte adds that data centers require rezoning, so there’s room for community action. Nevertheless, there’s been widespread support for these ce...2025-06-1052 minA Public AffairAI Data Centers are Coming to Wisconsin
On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes unpacks the future of AI in the state of Wisconsin. He’s in conversation with Brett Korte who describes why big tech companies are looking to Wisconsin as the future home of their data centers. Wisconsin happens to be water rich, and these data centers require water. But Korte says that Great Lakes water is governed by compacts with lots of stakeholders, making water harder to access. Korte adds that data centers require rezoning, so there’s room for community action. Nevertheless, there’s been widespread support for these ce...2025-06-1052 minA Public AffairMedia in the time of the American Empire’s Decline
On today’s show, economist Richard D. Wolff joins host Esty Dinur to talk about the state of the American empire and the state of independent media. We’re also joined in the studio by Norman Stockwell who reiterates that funding independent media is as important as ever in light of potential cuts to the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. Wolff says that we’re living through the decline of the American Empire and that decline is gathering speed. He says that we can’t accept that what has happened to every other empire won’t happen her...2025-06-0653 minA Public AffairMedia in the time of the American Empire’s Decline
On today’s show, economist Richard D. Wolff joins host Esty Dinur to talk about the state of the American empire and the state of independent media. We’re also joined in the studio by Norman Stockwell who reiterates that funding independent media is as important as ever in light of potential cuts to the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. Wolff says that we’re living through the decline of the American Empire and that decline is gathering speed. He says that we can’t accept that what has happened to every other empire won’t happen her...2025-06-0653 minA Public AffairTrue Community is a Subversive Thing
Today we turn the tables; Allen Ruff sits in the guest seat to talk about his life and times. Ruff has been hosting the show for over 20 years and logged over 1000 hours of tape over that time, many of which you can find on the WORT website. Guest host, Bert Zipperer, interviews Ruff about what brought him to Madison, how he developed his subversive analysis, and the early days of WORT.
In this rare interview, Ruff opens up about how his youth among the Jewish working class in New Haven and later education a...2025-06-0553 minA Public AffairTrue Community is a Subversive Thing
Today we turn the tables; Allen Ruff sits in the guest seat to talk about his life and times. Ruff has been hosting the show for over 20 years and logged over 1000 hours of tape over that time, many of which you can find on the WORT website. Guest host, Bert Zipperer, interviews Ruff about what brought him to Madison, how he developed his subversive analysis, and the early days of WORT.
In this rare interview, Ruff opens up about how his youth amidst working class radicals in New Haven and later education at A...2025-06-0553 minA Public AffairLife Lived on the Edge of Freedom
On today’s show, guest host Yuri Rashkin is joined by independent journalist, Jonathan Fink. These two popular YouTubers of the Rashkin Report and the Silicon Curtain (respectively) break down the recent development in the war in Ukraine and champion the work of independent media on the increasingly politicized topic of Ukraine.
They discuss Ukraine’s recent drone strike on Russian aircraft and how the world is starting to see that Ukraine has more cards in its hands. Fink calls this an “inflection” moment because Ukraine is acting from a position of strength and inno...2025-06-0452 minA Public AffairLife Lived on the Edge of Freedom
On today’s show, guest host Yuri Rashkin is joined by independent journalist, Jonathan Fink. These two popular YouTubers of the Rashkin Report and the Silicon Curtain (respectively) break down the recent development in the war in Ukraine and champion the work of independent media on the increasingly politicized topic of Ukraine.
They discuss Ukraine’s recent drone strike on Russian aircraft and how the world is starting to see that Ukraine has more cards in its hands. Fink calls this an “inflection” moment because Ukraine is acting from a position of strength and inno...2025-06-0452 minA Public AffairOn the Morality of Taxpaying
On today’s show, host Sara Gabler speaks with sociologist Dr. Ruth Braunstein about money and morality. They discuss her new book, My Tax Dollars: The Morality of Taxpaying in America, which was published on April 15, or Tax Day–an auspicious day that Braunstein calls an American “ritual.”
Braunstein says that tax paying is the most significant way that everyday people interact with the federal government. And people invest a lot of symbolic value (in addition to material value) in the act of tax paying. Groups like war tax resisters and anti-abortion activists resist pa...2025-06-0352 minA Public AffairBuilding Symbiotic Relationships with Beavers
In Wisconsin we don’t have a shortage of beavers, despite over hunting and over trapping in the nineteenth century. But their resurgence isn’t without friction, especially as development encroaches on their environments. On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes is joined by journalist Bennet Goldstein whose recent reporting covers the ways that people are living with beavers and learning how to mitigate floods and drought from them.
Goldstein describes how human-built dams were constructed around Wisconsin in the early twentieth century to mitigate floods in the very hilly Driftless region. An increa...2025-06-0253 minA Public AffairResisting Nuclear Energy in Wisconsin
On today’s show, host Esty Dinur is joined by two representatives from Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) to talk about the Point Beach Nuclear Reactor in Two Rivers, Wisconsin on Lake Michigan. Amy Schulz and Alfred Meyer discuss the potential relicensing of this power plant despite the reactor being past its lifespan and how to oppose this relicensing.
Meyer is concerned that the regulatory studies done on nuclear plants don’t account for the effects of climate change on these reactors. Meanwhile the Trump administration last week issued four executive orders that would...2025-05-3053 minA Public AffairAn Update from Cuba
On today’s show, host Allen Ruff speaks with three solidarity activists who recently returned from Cuba as part of a delegation to Santiago de Cuba called Levantate por Cuba. For decades, Cuba has been the target of a vindictive blockade, used as a punishment of the island’s people because they dared seize their own history and break free of neocolonialism from Washington DC and across the hemisphere.
Jordan Muhammad is a recent graduate, activist, organizer, and substitute teacher based in Chicago. On the solidarity trip Muhammad spoke with many people...2025-05-2900 minA Public AffairFocus on Housing with Briarpatch Youth Services and Porchlight
A few weeks ago, host Ali Muldrow spoke with State Senator Kelda Roys about the housing crisis in Madison and Dane County. As the average price of a home has soared to nearly half a million dollars, the number of kids experiencing homelessness in the city is also growing. Today we’re picking up that theme with two guests from local homeless services agencies: Karla Thennes of Porchlight and Jen Ripp of Briarpatch Youth Services.
From her over thirty years at Porchlight, Thennes describes how accessible housing has decreased over the years and th...2025-05-2853 minA Public AffairHow Health Became a Luxury Product
In 2023, wellness was a $6.3 trillion dollar industry, it’s also notoriously riddled with grifts and scams. As online wellness influencers drive the anti vax movement, white Christian nationalists and the Make America Healthy Again movement are transforming body purity into body fascism. On today’s show, host Richelle Wilson is joined by journalist Amy Larocca to talk about the world of wellness and her new book, How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time.
Larocca started tracing the emergence of our current wellness movement when she noticed the ma...2025-05-2752 minA Public AffairThe Crises of Regional Colleges and Universities
On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes is joined by journalist Molly Parker to talk about the erosion of educational access in rural areas, the value of regional universities, and Parker’s recent article for ProPublica, “A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education.”
Parker describes her experience of going to college at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and how this was an adventure for her as a young person from a rural environment. Schools like SIU are affordable and allow students to be closer to family. Th...2025-05-2652 minA Public Affair“You can’t put the oil back in the pipeline”
On today’s show, host Esty Dinur is joined by two legal experts from Earthjustice–Andre Segura and Stefanie Tsosie–to talk about the Trump administration’s attacks on the environment.
They discuss the reconciliation bill that was passed yesterday and what this billionaire’s bill will mean for the environment. Segura says that this bill is a huge giveaway to the oil and gas industry and will make it easier to drill and transport oil and gas, impacting ecosystems the world over. Increased drilling in the Alaskan Arctic, Gulf of Mexico, and beyond will...2025-05-2352 minA Public AffairHow to Build Civic Courage with Henry Giroux
On today’s show, social critic Henry Giroux discusses what he calls the “politics of cleansing,” the multi-pronged offensive currently being waged against civil liberties, dissent, and ultimately democracy by “American-style fascism.” He says that cleansing means to purify in the service of domination. And in his recent article in CounterPunch he seeks a language that is comprehensive enough to describe Trump’s assault on democracy.
From religious fundamentalism, to educational repression, the imposition of ideological conformity, and attacks on DEI, we’re watching racial cleansing unfold. That’s coupled with the hollowing out of government...2025-05-2252 minA Public AffairThe role of the artist is to sing
Continuing our focus on the arts as an antidote in times of political turmoil, today we’re joined by local poet Nate Marshall to talk about his most recent collection, Finna. His poems consider the brevity and disposability of Black lives, question how gendered language is related to violence, and explore the vastness of Black vernacular.
Marshall and Muldrow discuss the weight of writing about challenging moments in history. He says he remains curious about power, language, and masculinity. But too often readers have been primed to expect racialized suffering in Black American li...2025-05-2253 minA Public AffairRebroadcast of a Conversation with Ada Deer
On today’s show we’re rebroadcasting an interview from 2019 in which outgoing News Director Chali Pittman interviewed Ada Deer, the late Native American social worker, activist, professor, lobbyist, and author. They talk about Deer’s life, work, and American Indian history.
Deer grew up on the Menominee Reservation and graduated from UW–Madison with a degree in social work. She later taught courses that fused Indian history and social work. She also served as Assistant Secretary of the US Department of the Interior as the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and was t...2025-05-2053 minA Public AffairGuaranteed Income Helps People Put One Foot Forward
On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes speaks with Dr. Michelle Robinson about the Madison Forward Fund 2.0, which was recently unveiled by the Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness. The guaranteed income program will focus on maternal-child health and support 42 families, each getting $500 a month for 12 months. This program builds off of the Madison Forward Fund that ran from 2022 to 2023.
Robinson provides insightful context on the history of income inequality, the interacting realities of racial and gender-based inequity, and the fact that there is precedent for these kinds of programs in our existing publi...2025-05-1953 minA Public AffairA Conversation on Seeds, Stories, and Solidarity
On today’s show, host Esty Dinur speaks with three panelists taking part in a program next week to celebrate World Day for Cultural Diversity. Dr. Claudia Calderón, Avexnim Cojti, and Cherie Thunder are part of a panel called Let’s Get Growing: Seeds, Stories & Solidarity happening on May 21 from 5-7pm at Aubergine on Willy Street.
As part of today’s roundtable, they talk about seed sovereignty, which is the right of people to use and exchange their own seeds in order to maintain the foodways and autonomy. This movement counters the bill...2025-05-1654 minA Public AffairSocial Security Is Affordable and Popular
On today’s show, host Allen Ruff speaks with Nancy J. Altman about the status of Social Security under the Trump administration. As the program enters its 90th year, Altman reflects on how it was created during the Great Depression but was meant to provide basic economic security (not dependent on wages) even in times of prosperity. Now, the program serves over 70 million people.
Altman has written about how Elon Musk and DOGE are trying to undermine the program by appealing to an old playbook of lies and misinformation. Contrary to false claims that...2025-05-1552 minA Public AffairWe’ve Got To Live Together
Good luck trying to find an affordable apartment or buy a home in Madison these days. As the city keeps growing, so does the cost of housing. To talk about the situation we’re in and what local and state governments can do about it, host Ali Muldrow is joined by Senator Kelda Roys.
They discuss the Ella Apartments and programs like the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA), zoning and accessory dwelling units, the very narrow pathways to home ownership, how hard it is for people to downsize and stay in the...2025-05-1453 minA Public AffairRoundtable on Black Leadership in Madison
On today’s show, Alder Isadore Knox Jr. hosts a roundtable discussion on Black political leadership in Madison. He says that this is a unique time for this conversation given the reduction of Black elected officials on the Madison City Council, from 9 alders to 5 in the current term. He’s joined by Richard V. Brown Sr., Sheri Carter, and Amani Latimer Burris. They talk about their reasons for running for political office as well as their civic accomplishments.
Latimer Burris says that she’s proud of asking tough questions at Council meetings and she’s...2025-05-1353 minA Public AffairRebroadcast: Status of Childcare in Wisconsin
Today’s show is rebroadcast of a show from April 28.
On April 17, a record breaking number of child care advocates marched on the Wisconsin state capital and sent a message to legislators that the state needs to invest $480 million in childcare. According to the Institute for Research on Poverty, without this investment, 1 in 4 childcare providers in the state could shut down.
To shed light on these changes, host Douglas Haynes is joined by Corrine Hendrickson and Ruth Schmidt, two child care professionals and advocates. Schmidt says that Wisconsin is one of six...2025-05-1254 minA Public AffairWhy Is Trump Still So Interested in Greenland?
“We need Greenland for national security and even international security,” President Trump said during his first State of the Union of his second term. “One way or the other, we’re going to get it.”
That bold claim set off a new wave of awkward diplomacy, including surprise visits from Donald Trump Jr., and Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha.
Acquiring Greenland is not a new obsession. Trump floated the idea in his first term. Numerous presidential administrations have floated the idea, at least privately. Even Truman made a secret offer...2025-05-0953 minA Public AffairNeoliberalism on Steroids
On today’s show, host Allen Ruff is joined by David McNally to reflect on Donald Trump’s first 100-ish days in office. They try to make sense of Trumpists’ multi-pronged offensive on immigrants, trade, DEI, and so much more. McNally says that Trump relies on shock, awe, and fear, but even within this climate, there are cracks that can be exploited.
While some are claiming that neoliberalism is over, McNally says that Trumpism is a natural outgrowth of neoliberalism that includes a weakening of organized labor and social movements and a celebration of big...2025-05-0851 minA Public AffairWhat are schools for? A Conversation with Eve L. Ewing
It’s a common refrain to hear that getting an education opens doors, even in a community like Madison with its huge achievement gap. But today on the show, host Ali Muldrow speaks with Dr. Eve L. Ewing, who argues that instead of creating equal opportunities, the American education system perpetuates inequality. Ewing is the author of Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children, in which she demonstrates how schools were designed to propagate the idea of white intellectual superiority.
Ewing asks a deceptively simple question, what are schools for? Th...2025-05-0752 minA Public AffairHow to put data over dogma
On today’s show, host Sara Gabler speaks with author, scholar, and prominent TikToker Dan McClellan about his new book, The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) about Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues. They discuss how Christians derive their notions of sexuality, gender, and authority by going straight to the source, the Bible itself.
McClellan uses an approach that he calls “data over dogma” in which he strives to put aside any of his own beliefs and assumptions in order to assess what the historical record and the texts themselves say. Inst...2025-05-0654 minA Public AffairThe Miraculous and Disastrous with Author Tamara Dean
The Kickapoo River Valley is one of Wisconsin’s most beloved landscapes. On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes speaks with author Tamara Dean about this magical region and the miraculous, disastrous, and difficult changes she observed while living on the land. Her new book, Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless, is a collection of essays about what she learned from moving to this area in the early 2000s.
When she and her partner purchased a farm in the Driftless, she had many goals: of becoming an organic farmer, creating a poll...2025-05-0552 minA Public AffairPeace activists are shut out from getting aid into Gaza
On today’s show, host Esty Dinur speaks with a peace activist and a scholar about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. It has been two months since Israel began a full blockade of all aid to Gaza. In response, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, made up of volunteers from over 21 countries, attempted to open a sea-based relief route. Last night, their vessel was attacked by drones, and the vessel was substantially damaged. Cassandra Dixon joined us today from Malta to describe the attack.
We’re also joined by Jennifer Loewenstein who discusses the healthcare situ...2025-05-0253 minA Public AffairMay Day with Armando Ibarra
On today’s show, host Allen Ruff is joined in the studio by Armando Ibarra to celebrate International Workers Day or May Day, a day that has long been one of working class mobilization. Initiated in Chicago in 1886, May Day commemorates organized workers’ strength against oligarchs of the past and present.
While workers’ movements have made great gains since that first May Day, today’s plutocrats haven’t ceased in their efforts to take away workers’ gains. Across the country today, people are taking to the streets again, demanding dignity and fair treatment. Many events a...2025-05-0152 minA Public AffairA Roundtable of Black Women Leaders in Madison
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow is joined by four accomplished Black women who are or have been in public office and who serve in organizations at the executive level. Brandi Grayson, April Kigeya, Sabrina Madison, and Dana Pellebon are local leaders who bring years of expertise and care to their work. However, they face an inordinate amount of scrutiny in their professional and personal lives.
Muldrow starts the show by reminding listeners of the words of Ida B. Wells, the investigative journalist and a founder of the NAACP, who said that the...2025-04-3000 minA Public AffairBonnie Raitt Day
Fifty years ago today, on April 29, 1975, Bonnie Raitt gave a benefit concert with Mose Allison for WORT at the Capitol City Theatre in downtown Madison. This was a major event in the history of our station. On today’s very special edition of A Public Affair, WORT’s Production Coordinator Aaron Scholz is behind the mic to explain why. In addition to a special message from Bonnie Raitt, we hear four interviews with folks who helped coordinate the benefit show, were at the show, or were involved with WORT before we went on the air over...2025-04-2953 minA Public AffairLocal Poets Roundtable
Continuing our April theme of talking with poets and artists about the role of art in times of political turmoil, today host Ali Muldrow is joined by three local poets in the studio to talk about their craft and their work in the community.
juj e lepe, Jonny Teklit, and Andrew Chi Keong Yim talk about the competitiveness and performance of slam poetry, how art takes on a greater meaning in moments of social and political upheaval, how to address both human rights violations and joy within their craft, and the storytelling of...2025-04-2354 minA Public AffairState of the Arts: Wisconsin Humanities Loses Funding
On today’s show, we’re continuing our April theme of highlighting the role of the arts in times of political turmoil. As federal cuts to arts and culture programs are hitting local organizations hard, host Ali Muldrow speaks with Jessica Becker and Jen Rubin of Wisconsin Humanities. Last week the organization was notified from the National Endowment for the Humanities that all of their grant funding had been canceled.
Becker says that their funding comes from a 53-year-old grant program that ended overnight when the Executive Director of Wisconsin Humanities received an unide...2025-04-1654 minA Public AffairState of the Arts: Round 1
On this show we regularly talk with poets and artists about their work. And today host Ali Muldrow is joined by three professionals who work behind the scenes to make local arts programming happen. And they happen to be artists themselves.
At a time when arts funding is being slashed left and right, we wanted to make the time to highlight some important arts programming happening in our community. Karin Wolf is the Arts and Culture Administrator at the Madison Arts Commission. She says that the city’s youth poet laureate application will ope...2025-04-0952 minA Public AffairMoney Doesn’t Vote, People Do
Wisconsin’s Spring Election results are in, and host Ali Muldrow breaks down the results with Nick Ramos and Iuscely Flores. They talk about the role of big money in the Supreme Court election, the rise of constitutional amendments, and how fair maps are changing the terrain of Wisconsin’s electoral system.
Ramos and Flores reiterate the need to keep fighting for our democracy. As Ramos says, the beat goes on. This means listening to your neighbors. Flores says the work of organizing is the work of talking to each other. She adds that...2025-04-0253 minA Public AffairRace and Reproductive Politics with Annie Menzel
Continuing with host Ali Muldrow’s feminist book club series, on today’s show, Muldrow speaks with Annie Menzel, author of Fatal Denial: Racism and The Political Life of Black Infant Mortality. They discuss white racial innocence, the birth justice movement, and the history of obstetrics. Menzel diagnoses how white expertise and authority shape the world of reproductive health for mothers and birthing people.
Fatal Denial reframes the conversation about Black maternal health away from viewing Black parents as problems. Instead, as Muldrow asserts, the book makes clear that the conditions of Black Ameri...2025-03-2652 minA Public AffairIs It Love or Unpaid Labor?
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow speaks with Emily Callaci, author of Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor. In it, Callaci writes about the second-wave feminist movement, Wages for Housework, and the important questions about unpaid labor, gender, economy, and social reproduction that it raised. Muldrow calls the book “immensely relevant for this moment.”
Callaci describes the 1970s as a time when social movements were focused on expanding people’s rights. But the Wages for Housework movement tried to address what they thought was a fundamental source of inequality: the econo...2025-03-1952 minA Public AffairA Hopeful Conversation to End Gun Violence
In December the Madison community was rocked by a mass shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School. It was just one of 330 school shooting incidents in 2024, as documented by the K-12 School Shooting Database. On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow is joined by two gun violence advocates–Tyler Kelly and Darrell Lofton– to talk about their work to change the narrative about school safety and power.
Kelly and Lofton work for WAVE Educational Fund, and they’re planning a Day of Action on May 20, and urging folks to speak directly with their represent...2025-03-1252 minA Public AffairA Project 2025 Update with Lisa Graves
Last summer Lisa Graves sounded the alarm about Project 2025, the over 900 page plan written by the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation that proposed to remake the US government. Now that Donald Trump is in the White House for a second term, he’s using Project 2025 as the blueprint for sweeping changes to governance and American society.
Lisa Graves joins host Ali Muldrow again to talk about where we stand: firings of national park rangers and other federal employees, locking the doors of USAID, and ripping away of foreign aid to Ukraine. They also discuss the tr...2025-03-0553 minA Public AffairLiteracy and the Ongoing Freedom Struggle
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow speaks with Derek Black whose new book, Dangerous Learning: The South’s Long War on Black Literacy, traces Black literacy between the American Revolution and Reconstruction. For Black citizens, literacy was a weapon of empowerment and rebellion, while for whites, it was the only tool that could destabilize their grip on power. Derek Black says that the ghosts of this fight live on today.
Muldrow and Black talk about leaders like Denmark Vesey who inspired thousands of enslaved people in Charleston, South Carolina in the nineteenth cent...2025-02-1952 minA Public AffairResponding to Trump’s Immigration Policies
The last few weeks have been harrowing for immigrants in the US. People in our community and across the country are worried about being detained or deported as Donald Trump tries to make good on his campaign promise of “mass deportations.” Although today a federal judge blocked Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship.
Host Ali Muldrow is joined by two guests today to talk about the threats that immigrants face right now and how people are organizing in opposition to ICE raids and more. Melissa Sanchez has been reporting on Nicaraguan communi...2025-02-0553 minA Public AffairSupporting Black Men’s Health with Aaron Perry and Dr. Alvin Thomas
Our two guests today take a holistic view of Black men’s health, from physical to mental health. After being diagnosed with diabetes, Aaron Peery took up the challenge of competing in an Ironman competition as a way to prioritize his own physical health. But this activity transformed his life beyond his physical health; it taught him to trust other people to help him achieve what he didn’t trust himself to achieve.
Dr. Alvin Thomas shares his professional knowledge about mental and behavioral health. He challenges his patients to take small steps like g...2025-01-2954 minA Public AffairCommon Council check-in with Alder Madison
On today’s show host Ali Muldrow is joined in the studio by Alder Sabrina Madison to talk about updates on the Madison Common Council. They talk about mental health, New Year’s resolutions, self-care, practicing love, and working toward equitable development in Madison. They also cover what it’s like to work in a dysfunctional environment, supporting survivors of harassment and domestic violence, accountability, and the prevalence of domestic violence in our community.
At yesterday’s Common Council meeting, community members turned out to ask the Council to fund the ice rinks. Muldrow...2025-01-1552 min
Uncomfy: Sticking with Moments That Challenge Us14 Strangers Dare to Explore Their Differing Views on Abortion - Ali Muldrow & Bria HalamaAli Muldrow and Bria Halama have nearly opposite views on abortion. But they signed up to sit with 12 other strangers looking for common ground. The four-day workshop was organized by Citizen Solutions in Wisconsin and resulted in five policy recommendations the whole group could agree on. It also turned Ali and Bria into friends. They found that listening, being vulnerable, and recognizing others’ humanity were transformative in these polarized discussions.
Ali Muldrow is the executive director of the abortion access nonprofit WMF Wisconsin. Bria Halama is a Catholic mental health counselor. Builders is a nonprofit equipping citizens globally to overcome to...2024-12-1823 minA Public AffairEducator Labor with MTI’s Jeff Knight and Michael Jones
On Ali Muldrow’s last show of 2024, she speaks with representatives from the union that represents educators in the Madison Metro School District. Madison Teacher Inc. President Michael Jones and Executive Director Jeff Knight join the show to talk about the recent Act 10 decision and the quick appeal, the restrictions on collective bargaining that have been in place for the last 13 years, and the bright spots in their union organizing.
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Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate here...2024-12-1153 minA Public AffairHumanizing Political Issues to Counteract Divisive Rhetoric with John ...
On today’s show, friend of the station John Nichols joins Ali Muldrow to talk about the currently political climate and discuss where we go from here. They get into the impact of campaign finance, the role of media in holding power to account, and what’s at stake in the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court Race.
John Nichols is associate editor at The Capital Times, national affairs correspondent for The Nation, and author of more than a dozen books, including It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism (co-authored with Senator Bernie Sanders). You can follo...2024-12-0453 minA Public AffairPolitics before Turkey with the DSA
On the day before the Thanksgiving holiday, today’s guests are prepared to talk politics. Host, Ali Muldrow is joined by three representatives of the Madison area Democratic Socialists of America: Liz Bynum Sorrell, Halsey Hazzard, and Adithya Pugazhendi. They talk about all the hot issues that you may or may not be ready to chat about with your friends or family tomorrow, from the presidential election, to Gaza, and local school board elections. The DSA representatives shared their campaign, Free School Meals for Madison, that aims to address food insecurity and food debt within MM...2024-11-2753 minA Public AffairWho Fights for Abortion Care in Post-Dobbs America?
Last week, seven states expanded their access to abortion care via ballot measures. This comes more than two years after the US Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion care with the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. That ruling in June 2022, sent nearly half of the states into chaos with abortion providers and their patients facing sudden closures, new restrictions, and rapidly changing rules. States with abortion rights protect by state law saw patients cross their borders to receive care.
In her new book You Must Stand Up: The...2024-11-1354 minA Public AffairPost Election Day A Public Affair with Sabrina Madison and April Kigey...
The Associate Press has called the 2024 Presidential election for Donald Trump at 5:34 a.m. EST on November 6th, 2024. At the time of this broadcast the unofficial results stand at 49.7% for Trump and 48.9% for Harris. If the margin holds, the results would be the fifth time in seven presidential elections that the state has been decided by less than a point.
April Kigeya, the 2nd Vice Chair of the Dane County Board and Sabrina Madison, Alder for District 17 on Madison’s Common Council, join host Ali Muldrow to grapple with a Trump victory. As th...2024-11-0653 minA Public AffairRacial Diversity with the Jewish Committee at a Moment of Rising Antis...
Earlier this year, the Jewish advocacy group Anti-Defamation League reported a record breaking 8,873 of antisemitic incidents in 2023. That is an increase of 140% compared to 2022. In light of this reality, host Ali Muldrow sits down with the director of Edot Midwest Regional Jewish Diversity and Racial Justice Collaborative Shahanna McKinney-Baldon. They discuss the reality of being both Black and Jewish in a time of rising hatred.
About our guest:
Shahanna McKinney-Baldon is the Founding Executive Director of Edot Midwest Regional Jewish Diversity and Racial Justice Collaborative. She is a longtime e...2024-10-3053 minA Public AffairDomestic Violence Awareness with Chief Barnes and DAIS’s Shannon...
October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, and on today’s show, host Ali Muldrow explores what help is available and what measure are being taken to prevent homicide by an intimate partner. First she speaks with Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes about how police show up in cases of domestic abuse and the just announced the Family Justice/Sensitive Crimes Unit.
Then Muldrow, speaks with Domestic Abuse Intervention Services (DAIS) Executive Director Shannon Barry. DAIS offers a wide array of crisis intervention and prevention programs, including a 24-hour Help Line, legal advocacy, support gr...2024-10-2353 minA Public AffairEveryone Deserves to be Free with Danez Smith
On today’s show host Ali Muldrow is joined by Black, queer writer and performer, Danez Smith. Their new collection, Bluff, was released in August, and it imagines life in a dissolving world. Danez wrote this collection after two years of artistic silence, during which the world came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Minneapolis became the epicenter of protest following the murder of George Floyd. The collection reckons with these events and the poet’s role in them.
In a raw, honest, and wide-raging conversation, Smith speaks to liberation from...2024-10-1653 minA Public AffairA Debate Regarding School Resource Officers
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow speaks with long-time radio personality John Sylvester. Most listener will know the guest as simply as Sly. He was a rock jock on WMAD and WIBA. There he hosted Sly’s Social Dilemma among other shows. Starting in the late 90s, Sly switched to talk radio on WTDY and WBGR. He was an instrumental voice during the Walker administration, giving blow-by-blow updates during the height of Act 10. He’s also the host of the podcast Sly’s Office.
Sly has always been willing to stir the pot, and today...2024-10-0952 minA Public AffairGeorge Johnson on Uncovering Hundred-Year-Old Black Queer Histories
In the newly released book Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known, author George M. Johnson blends essays, poetry and personal narrative to tell stories of Black queer writers, performers, and activists from 1920s. Many of their sexualities were obscured or forgotten throughout history. The book is illustrated by Artist Charly Palmer. Johnson joins host Ali Muldrow to discuss the lives of the people in the book and the complexities of the writing a book about hidden sexualities.
George M. Johnson is an Award-Winning Black Non-Binary Writer, Author, and...2024-10-0351 minA Public AffairOrganizing in Rural America with George Goehl
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow speaks with community organizer and activist George Goehl. Goehl has a long history with organizing and been involved with campaigns as small as paving a road to large as reforming federal financial policy. He has now shifted his focus to teach the fundamental skills and concepts of organizing and tell stories of rural Americans’ organizing efforts.
Goehl is the author of the “Fundamentals of Community Organizing” Booklet–a 50 page guide to teach the fundamental skills and concepts of organizing. He is also the the host of the podcast...2024-09-2552 minA Public AffairWhat to Expect at YWCA’s 2024 Racial Justice Summit
Next Wednesday, the Madison YWCA is hosting their annual Racial Justice Summit. This year, the 2024 Racial Justice Summit will occur virtually on September 25th and 26th and in-person at Monona Terrace on September 27th. The theme for the summit is Reflect, Connect, and Create New Worlds.
Ahead of the event, A Public Affair host Ali Muldrow is joined today by YWCA’s Race & Gender Equity team Libby Tucci, Myxee Thao, and Semaj Sconiers. They discuss what can be expected next week, the complexities of their work, and the ongoing pursuit of racial justice....2024-09-1853 minA Public AffairRacism, Sexism, and… Love? with Dr. Sabrina Strings
With the advent of dating apps and the gamification of dating, many of us are exhausted by the hunt for love. In fact, a 2020 Pew Research Center report found that nearly half of U.S. adults thought dating has gotten harder in recent years. Gone, it seems, are the days of relationships, and in their place are “situationships.” Today’s guest, Dr. Sabrina Strings, argues that the institution of “love” is even more precarious for Black women and other women of color.
Strings joins host Ali Muldrow to discuss her latest book, The End of Love...2024-09-1154 minA Public AffairDiscussing the Election with Sabrina Madison and April Kigeya
You can not walk down the street, turn on your tv, or scroll social media without being reminded that we are in a presidential election year. In November, Former President Donald Trump will go up against Vice President Kamala Harris. Harris is the first woman of color–a Black woman–to running for president as the Democratic Party’s nominee in US history.
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow, who herself is a Black woman holding a elected seat, is joined by two other local elected officials. County Supervisor April Kigeya and Madison...2024-09-0451 minA Public AffairGet Ready for BRT with Mayor Rhodes-Conway
The city of Madison is about to enter a new era of public transportation. On September 22, the long awaited Bus Rapid Transit or BRT is scheduled to launch the new East-West line. The BRT launch is the culmination of Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway’s MetroForward initiative made possible by federal funding for infrastructure development.
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow is joined by Mayor Rhodes-Conway and Justin Stuehrenberg, the General Manager of Metro Transit. They talk about the Mayor’s vision for transportation in the city and how the BRT line developed even through...2024-08-2853 minA Public AffairLGBTQ+ Advocacy during an Election Year with Abigail Swetz
On today’s show, guest Abigail Swetz sat down with Ali Muldrow to discuss the future of LGBTQ+ advocacy in Wisconsin. They talk about how public disparagement of queer joy creates a crisis of compassion, how being a teacher and being an advocate inform each other, and how difficult activism can be during the noise of an election year. Their conversation also explores the power of incorporating your own identity into your work, and on how demonstrations of support can bring more people to the table.
Abigail Swetz is the new Executive Director of...2024-08-2153 minA Public AffairLate Summer Madison Roundup
On today’s show, Ali Muldrow hosts a late summer roundup. From the Madison Public Market to the new BRT system and the Madison Night Mares, there’s a lot going on that makes Madison a beautiful place to live.
We’re joined by Keisha Harrison, the new CEO of the Madison Public Market. Before Keisha came to Madison, she was the executive director of the Indianapolis City Market Corporation where she led activities related to the operation and restoration of the historic city market. In her new role, Keisha says it’s a...2024-08-1452 minA Public AffairUnpacking Project 2025 with Lisa Graves
Project 2025 is the Republican plan to rapidly remake the US government if Donald Trump is reelected. It’s over 900 pages long and was created by the Heritage Foundation, an ultra conservative think tank. Project 2025 promises to abolish the US Department of Education and criminalize abortion pills, among other things. Though Donald Trump has claimed he doesn’t know anything about it, its authors include many people close to the former president.
Now democrats are trying to raise awareness of this document, and everyone from Joe Biden to Taraji P. Henson is talking about it...2024-08-0752 minA Public AffairWomen are the Backstop for our Deficient Social Safety Net
In today’s show, host Ali Muldrow talks with sociology professor Jessica Calarco about how women are shaped by multiple forces in our society to take up the role of mother, of homemaker, and of caregiver. They discuss how, from a young age, girls are trained to put others first, and to do emotional labor. That training spills over into adulthood, where ideas of gender shape the workplace, the division of labor in the family, and how people feel fulfilled. And in the end, women provide much of the labor that enables the public policy ch...2024-07-2453 minA Public AffairHip Hop’s Influence on American Culture
What unites the collaboration between Michael Jordan and Nike, Barack Obama’s meteoric ascent to the White House, and Kendrick Lamar’s historic 2018 Pulitzer Prize win? Hip hop culture.
That’s according to Dr. Todd Boyd in his new book, Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made the World. Rapper’s Deluxe is a collection of major moments in hip hop and American history that highlights the genre’s expansive influence on the world’s cultural canon.
Host Ali Muldrow and Dr. Boyd talk about Lauryn Hill’s critical acclaim and commercial succe...2024-07-1053 minA Public AffairCelebrating LGBTQ Rights in Wisconsin
June is Pride Month and on today’s show we celebrate the legal and social advancements made for LGBTQ Wisconsinites. In 1982 Wisconsin was the first state to make it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation in employment and housing.
Host Ali Muldrow is joined by Governor Tony Evers who talks about allyship from public officials, Judy Davidoff who reflects on the 2014 overturning of Wisconsin’s same-sex marriage ban (the year before the US Supreme Court’s marriage equality decision in Obergefell v. Hodges), and Steve Starkey who’s been an advocate and leader fo...2024-06-2653 minA Public AffairHow the North Invented For Profit Prison Labor with Dr. Robin Bernstei...
William Freeman was a 15-year-old in the the early nineteenth century who was convicted of a crime he insisted he didn’t commit. He was sentenced to five years of hard labor in Auburn prison in New York State. He, and the rest of the prisoners, worked without pay, and when Freeman challenged the system, it had violent repercussions.
In her latest book Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder that Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, Robin Bernstein uses Freeman’s story to lay out the twisted history of anti-Black racism in the prison f...2024-06-1252 minA Public AffairSoftball Talk with The Madison Night Mares
Sunday, June 16th is Father’s Day. It is also open day for Madison’s very own top level softball team! For the first time, the Madison Night Mares will take the field at Warner Park. On today’s special edition of A Public Affair host Ali Muldrow is joined in the studio by Marketing and Operations Manager Savanna Rainey and player Rylee Rogers.
They shine a light on what fans can expect from the team and talk about the importance of coaching, role models, and supportive families.
Rylee Rogers...2024-06-0554 minA Public AffairTaylor Swift, Beyoncé, the Fans and Their Money
Within the last couple of months, two of the most powerful women in the music industry dropped highly anticipated albums. At the end of April, Beyoncé hit us with her country album: Cowboy Carter. About 3 weeks later Taylor Swift released The Tortured Poets Department. These two albums came after they both went on massive tours in 2023: Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour and Taylor’s Eras Tour–which is still going on internationally.
Today, host Ali Muldrow talks about the financial power of these two stars and their loyal followers with Misty Heggeness.
Mis...2024-05-1552 minA Public AffairOne Week Later: Mount Horeb Middle School’s Tragic Shooting Inci...
On May 1st, the Mount Horeb community experienced a district wide lockdown when a student came to the Middle School with what appeared to be a rifle–it was later determined to be a pellet gun. That student did not make it into the school and was killed by police.
Madison 365’s Robert Chappell was on the scene minutes after receiving a text from his son informing him of the threat of a shooter. He joins host Ali Muldrow to reflect on that day and how the community of Mount Horeb is picking up t...2024-05-0853 minA Public AffairMost of us Can’t Afford a $500 Emergency: Do Guaranteed Income P...
Today we spend the hour talking about wealth and income disparities with folks who are working on a solution. That solution? Putting cash in the hands of people who need it. Blake Roberts, Kathrine Cagat and Gina Stilp join host Ali Muldrow to break down the differences of universal basic income, guaranteed income and unconditional cash programs. They discuss the realities of living in poverty, the impact of having a safety net, and the truth of government subsidies.
Blake Roberts is the Program Manager for Madison Forward Fund. The Madison Forward...2024-04-3053 minA Public AffairAmplifying Black Voices in Madison: Individual Classroom Experiences
A 2019 study found that Wisconsin is has one of the worst racial disparities for Black children in the US. How does that pan out for student’s living in Madison? Importantly, what is the actual experience for Black people who get their education at our schools?
Today we are spending the hour with a group of Black scholars who are working to expose a more complete history of Black Madisonians’ experiences in education. In that work, the Black Madison Voices Project aims to advance anti-racist curriculum, policies, and practices in our K-12 and high...2024-04-2353 minA Public AffairFacing Online Racism, Harassments, and Micro Aggressions
A 2017 Pew Research survey found that a quarter of Black Americans had faced online harassment due to their race or ethnicity. As our society moves more and more online, how do we cope with this reality?
In his new book, When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age, Dr. Rob Eschmann analyzes a wealth of data, interviews with students of color, and millions of social media posts to unpack the influence of online communication on face-to-face interactions. He joins host Ali Muldrow to discuss online racism and the way...2024-04-1653 minA Public AffairReal Life Parks and Rec: Celebrating Carousel Bayrd’s Last Show
After more than 10 years on A Public Affair, host Carousel Bayrd is stepping away from the show. To celebrate, we have a round table of colleagues and friends who work in different realms of local government. Analiese Eicher, Jenni Dye, and Ali Muldrow join Carousel to talk about the unique challenges they have each faced and why they keep showing up day after day.
Please email any parting messages for Carousel to talk@wortfm.org
Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate here...2024-04-1054 minA Public AffairReproductive Research at UW’s CORE with Zakiyyah Sorensen and Mf...
Today we are continuing our conversation about reproductive rights with an intuitive from University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. The Collaborative for Reproductive Equity (CORE) conducts and translates rigorous, interdisciplinary research to inform policies and programs so that all Wisconsinites may live with reproductive autonomy.
CORE’s Zakiyyah Sorensen and Mfonobong Ufot join host Ali Muldrow to talk about the work and the reality of doing reproductive research in this political climate.
About the guests:
Zakiyyah Sorensen is the Outreach Manager and Engagement Hub Director for COR...2024-04-0953 minA Public AffairUnderstanding the Legal Case Against Mifepristone
Last week, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that is attempting to limit access to Mifepristone. That’s the of of the medications that is used in a majority of abortions. This is the first case regarding abortion access that the court has heard since Roe was overturned in 2022.
Criminal Defense Attorney and some-times host of this show Jessa Nicholson Goetz joins host Ali Muldrow to talk about this case thus far and the legal unpinning of abortion access. Jessa is the founding partner of Nicholson Gets & Otis, S.C...2024-04-0253 min
Black OxygenAli Muldrow: Wisconsin Abortion FundIn the Fall of 2023, local Madison leader Ali Muldrow took a new job as the first Executive Director of the Wisconsin Abortion Fund. The Wisconsin Abortion Fund is one of the oldest abortion funds in the nation and works to eliminate the financial and resource burden of abortion as health care. In this epsidoe of Black Oxygen, Ali discusses her story around abortion and reproductive health care, the meaning of reproductice health care for Black women, how folks can connect with the Wisconsin abortion fund and much more. #BlackOxygenPodcast #BlackOxygen #Madison365 #BlackInWisconsin #DopeBlackPodcasts #ReproductiveHealthCare #ReproductiveJustice #WisconsinAbortionFund #CollectiveCare #Col...2024-01-0851 min
365 AmplifiedAli Muldrow: Wisconsin Abortion FundIn the Fall of 2023, local Madison leader Ali Muldrow took a new job as the first Executive Director of the Wisconsin Abortion Fund. The Wisconsin Abortion Fund is one of the oldest abortion funds in the nation and works to eliminate the financial and resource burden of abortion as health care. In this epsidoe of Black Oxygen, Ali discusses her story around abortion and reproductive health care, the meaning of reproductice health care for Black women, how folks can connect with the Wisconsin abortion fund and much more. #BlackOxygenPodcast #BlackOxygen #Madison365 #BlackInWisconsin #DopeBlackPodcasts #ReproductiveHealthCare #ReproductiveJustice #WisconsinAbortionFund #CollectiveCare #Col...2024-01-0851 minBlack OxygenGuest Host Ali Muldrow interviews Angela RussellOn this week’s episode of Black Oxygen, the tables are turned. Regular Black Oxygen guest Ali Muldrow interviews Angela Russell. The friendship vibes are on thick on this episode as they discuss when Angela first started noticing beauty, her relationship with beauty, and travel the 5 senses of beauty. #BlackOxygenPodcast #BlackInMadison #BlackInWisconsin #Friends #DopeBlackPodcasts #BeautyAllAround #Madison #MadisonWI #Madison3652023-06-121h 00Black OxygenAli Muldrow: All things beautifulAli Muldrow says, “beauty is about reclaiming all the good in your life.” In this episode of Black Oxygen, Ali discuss the conflation of beauty with perfection, her trip to a cabin in rural Wisconsin, developing and maintaining friendships as adults, when she first understood the depth of her own beauty and much and much more. #BlackOxygenPodcast #BlackInWisconsin #BlackWomenInWisconsin #BlackWomenDroppingGems #BlackWomen #Madison365 #DopeBlackPodcasts #AliMuldrow #BlackLeadership #BlackLeadershipInWisconsin #BeautifulWisconsin #WisconsinIsBeautiful #Doula2023-01-0958 minBlack OxygenAngela Lang and Ali Muldrow: Hope versus Hate“Wisconsin is now positioned to save America,” says Ali Muldrow. In this episode of Black Oxygen, Angela Lang and Ali discuss the upcoming elections of Mandela Barnes for US Senate and Everett Mitchell for Wisconsin Supreme Court. We cover a wide range of topics including, being a Black candidate for a statewide race in Wisconsin, the role of Black women in elections, and how electability is often used as a gatekeeper term for Black candidates. #BlackOxygenPodcast #BlackInWisconsin #BlackWomenInWisconsin #BlackWomenDroppingGems #BlackWomen #Madison365 #DopeBlackPodcats #AngelaLang #BLOC #BlackLeadersOrganizingCommunities #AliMuldrow #EverettMitchell #MandelaBarnes #BlackLeadership #BlackLeadershipInWisconsin #HopeOverHate2022-09-191h 04Black OxygenAli Muldrow and Savion Castro RebroadcastThis week on Black Oxygen we look back at this conversation with Ali Muldrow and Savion Castro, President and Vice President of the MMSD School Board. We cover a broad range of education topics including their educational journey, the treatment and labeling of Black children, leading as a Black person in Madison and much more. This episode is filled with laughter, job and lots of wisdom. During this episode Ali says, “we cannot underestimate the advocacy of Black parents.” #BlackOxygenPodcast #BlackInWisconsin #MisEducationoftheNegro #EducationinWisconsin #AbolisionistEducationinWisconsin #MMSDSchoolBoard #AliMuldrow #SavionCastro2022-08-151h 21Black OxygenAli Muldrow and Savion CastroThis week on Black Oxygen we feature Ali Muldrow and Savion Castro, President and Vice President of the MMSD School Board. We cover a broad range of education topics including their educational journey, the treatment and labeling of Black children, leading as a Black person in Madison and much more. This episode is filled with laughter, job and lots of wisdom. During this episode Ali says, “we cannot underestimate the advocacy of Black parents.” #BlackOxygenPodcast #BlackInWisconsin #MisEducationoftheNegro #EducationinWisconsin #AbolisionistEducationinWisconsin #MMSDSchoolBoard #AliMuldrow #SavionCastro2021-09-131h 20Black OxygenAli Muldrow - RebroadcastThis week, we're revisiting Angela's conversation with Ali Muldrow. “Our society is defined by how we treat each other’s children," says Ali Muldrow. In this episode, building on her skills as a community activist, teacher, and doula, Ali Muldrow describes how Madison, WI is in the “active labor” phase of creating a more just society - a society that can be considered a sanctuary and a great place to be a child.2021-08-2330 min
Let's Do This!ALI MULDROWALI MULDROW, y'all!!! Ali is a powerful pillar of LOVE within our Madison WI community: Vice President of Madison's School Board, Educator, Activist, Humanitarian... we could keep going, but just go press play ASAP on this one!
Please note: not to worry, the connection issue in the first couple minutes gets resolved.
This is our last episode of 2020 with a special guest—and the timing of our first sitting down here with Ali is beyond aligned!
Thank you for sharing your heart with us, Ali... but even more so, thank you SO very much for how much you pour your unwaver...2020-12-161h 30
Know Your Candidates PodcastMMSD, Seat 4: Ali MuldrowAli Muldrow, candidate for MMSD, Seat 4, explains their qualifications for this office and why they are running.2019-03-0714 min
Know Your CandidatesMMSD, Seat 4: Ali MuldrowAli Muldrow, candidate for MMSD, Seat 4, explains their qualifications for this office and why they are running.2019-03-0714 minKnow Your CandidatesKnow Your Candidates: Madison Metropolitan School District Seat 6: Ali MuldrowAli Muldrow, candidate for Madison Municipal School Board, Seat 6, explains her qualifications for this office and why she is running.2017-03-1017 minKnow Your Candidates PodcastKnow Your Candidates: Madison Metropolitan School District Seat 6: Ali MuldrowAli Muldrow, candidate for Madison Municipal School Board, Seat 6, explains her qualifications for this office and why she is running.2017-03-1016 minKnow Your CandidatesMadison School Board, Seat 6 Primary: Ali MuldrowAli Muldrow, Nonpartisan candidate for Madison School Board, Seat 6, explains her qualifications for this office and why she is running.2017-01-2714 minKnow Your Candidates PodcastMadison School Board, Seat 6 Primary: Ali MuldrowAli Muldrow, Nonpartisan candidate for Madison School Board, Seat 6, explains her qualifications for this office and why she is running.2017-01-2714 min