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A Public AffairThe Music of Caribbean Witness
In 1492, Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean to find an Edenic scene that has since been mythologized. Today on A Public Affair, host Ali Muldrow is in conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe who charts this mythology in her new book, Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis. She writes about the legacy of slavery, indentured labor, and the forced toil of Chinese and enslaved Black people who mined the Caribbean islands for the benefit of European powers at the expense of the islands’ sacred ecologies.
Goffe bridges clim...
2026-02-0453 minA Public AffairFinding Joy Even When the World Demands Outrage
On this show, we’ve been reflecting on the last year of the Trump regime’s attacks on immigrants. Today, we’re focusing on how activists are protecting their communities and taking care of themselves. Host Ali Muldrow is joined by two disability activists, Dr. Sami Schalk and Martha Siravo, who discuss how they balance art with activism and how they maintain joy as we’re bombarded with tremendous tragedy around the country.
Siravo talks about her experiences in the adaptive arts space where she uses her wheelchair for adaptive ballet. Last fall, her aerial...
2026-01-2854 minA Public AffairGet to Know Lydia McComas, Madison’s New City Clerk
This week President Trump pardoned a group of Wisconsin Republicans who worked to overturn the results of the 2020 election by casting fake Electoral College votes. The pardons were symbolic, but the issue of the public’s faith in election results remains. Today host Ali Muldrow is joined by Madison’s new City Clerk, Lydia McComas, to talk about her role in making sure our local elections are accurate and secure.
McComas says that she’s excited to be in Madison because we have high voter registration and voter turnout here. She steps into this r...
2025-11-1252 minA Public AffairCrying For Joy with Poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow speaks with poet Sasha Debevec-McKenney about her collection Joy Is My Middle Name. Muldrow calls the collection loving, tender, and hilarious.
Growing up in Connecticut, Debevec-McKenney developed a fascination with the US presidents from a young age. She dove into the study of American history as a path to self-discovery. Now, it’s her goal of visiting all 40 of the deceased presidents’ graves. Debevec-McKenney and Muldrow challenge the hagiography of presidents, focusing on LBJ and civil rights legislation.
They also talk about the work of bein...
2025-11-0552 minA Public AffairFounders of Autonomy News Discuss the Changing Landscape of Abortion i...
WORT 89.9FM Madison · Founders of Autonomy News Discuss the Changing Landscape of Abortion in Wisconsin
While you can still get an abortion in Wisconsin, there are just two clinics left in the state, both located in Milwaukee. Susan Rinkunas and Garnet Henderson are co-founders of the independent reproductive rights and justice publication, Autonomy News. They join Ali Mudrow today in a wide-ranging conversation about the changing landscape of abortion rights across the world, including personhood, socioeconomic factors, and access to healthcare.
The guests discuss a 2017 decision under Scott Walker, when Wisconsin did not a...
2025-10-1558 minA Public AffairProject 2025 Is Going Smashingly
We’re in week two of the government shutdown and the first week of Planned Parenthood not providing abortion care in Wisconsin, and WORT is no longer broadcasting the BBC. To make sense of the dramatic changes in our nation and in our backyard, host Ali Muldrow is joined by friend of the show, Lisa Graves. They discuss the role that Project 2025 is playing in Trump’s second presidency and how it’s no surprise that the Trump administration has been implementing Project 2025 from day one.
Graves says that the Trump administration is more th...
2025-10-0847 minA Public AffairLocal Poet Laureates Save Our Wednesday
On this strange Wednesday, the first day of the federal government shutdown, host Ali Muldrow looks to poetry and two local poets for respite and guidance. We’re joined by Madison poet laureate Steven Espada Dawson and Madison youth poet laureate Octavia Ikard. They talk about the role of poetry in self-expression and healing but also in response to political life.
Dawson says he’s still figuring out what it means to be a poet laureate, but he takes seriously the work of using writing to put reality into perspective. He reads the sonn...
2025-10-0152 minA Public AffairMothering Doesn’t Equal Martyrdom
On today’s show, we’re joined by author and scholar Dr. Sagashus T. Levingston who talks about her new book, A Pot to Piss In. She tells host Ali Muldrow about economic shame and the power of homeownership for her “little disheveled band of humans.”
Dr. Levingston wrote her first book, Infamous Mothers, while in graduate school researching feminism, motherhood studies, and rhetoric. She wanted to write a dissertation on the teen moms, recovering women, single moms, and/or divorces, who are “infamous mothers,” but the source material didn’t exist. She had to create...
2025-09-1752 minA Public AffairThe Indomitable Spirit of Argentinian Grandmothers
On October 6th, 1978, the Argentine junta kidnapped Patricia Roisinblit. She was a young medical student and activist, and she was eight-months pregnant. After she was abducted, she gave birth to her son, and was never heard from again. Journalist Haley Cohen Gilliland wrote a book about the intrepid grandmothers who took great risk to fight to find their missing daughters and grandchildren in the face of the brutal dictatorship that destroyed all records of these political disappearances. She joins host Ali Muldrow to talk about A Flower Traveled In My Blood and discuss the lessons...
2025-09-1053 minA Public AffairReinventing Political Media Through Storytelling
On today’s show, host Ali Muldrow welcomes Steven Olikara back to WORT to talk about building narratives with the power to unify the US political terrain. Olikara has roots in Wisconsin and ran for Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2022. He is now working to reinvent political media through storytelling.
Olikara says that music is a good metaphor for how to engage in the political sphere. He says we should be like jazz musicians because they’re expert listeners, skilled improvisers, and actively engaged in call and response. In the face of the fear, host...
2025-09-0352 minA Public AffairMoms Are the OG Organizers
Kate Duffy believes in the power of everyday voices and that the best political conversations often start around a kitchen table (or in the carpool line). If you’re a mom on social media, you might know Kate from her Instagram profile, @motherhoodforgood. She joins host Ali Muldrow today to talk about parenting and women in democratic politics, like Catelin Drey who just won her Senate race in Iowa Senate this week.
Duffy started her Instagram account when she saw an opportunity to encourage other millennial moms to be more active in politics. Mo...
2025-08-2700 minA Public AffairThe Journey from Chatterbox to Podcast Host
Today host Ali Muldrow is joined by two guests with powerful voices in Madison: Myra McNair and Bianca Martin. In a world that wants women to be silent, or silent about certain topics, these three podcast hosts talk candidly about their careers, their triumphs, and how to make someone feel comfortable in a conversation.
All describe being chastised for being “chatterboxes” in school, but they’ve turned that gift of gab into professional careers. And people tune into their shows because these hosts know how to draw out their guests with tenderness while also as...
2025-08-2052 minA Public AffairDisability Activists Find Joy and Pleasure in Community
On the heels of the 35th anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Disability Pride Month, guest host Dina Nina Martinez-Rutherford hosts a roundtable on the intersection of race, gender, and disability with Nicki Vander Meulen and Dr. Sami Schalk. They talk about disability and education, evaluate how Madison is doing in terms of accessibility, and discuss how to find pleasure in life.
Last month Congress passed the budget reconciliation bill which includes dramatic cuts to Medicaid. Vander Meulen says that she’s trying to channel her energy int...
2025-08-0600 minA Public AffairHow to Inoculate Young Men Against Fascism
Fascism wouldn’t exist without young men promoting and spreading this far-right ideology. Today’s guest, Craig Johnson, tackles how to intervene before young men get swept up in the contemporary fascist movement. He joins guest host Christina Lieffring today to discuss his new book, How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism.
Though people argue about the definition of fascism all the time, Johnson says that there are two major differences between fascism and mainstream conservatism: fascists don’t play by the rules and they don’t care about law or established norms. Th...
2025-08-0551 minA Public AffairFormer police chief says we can’t have masked police
According to a new analysis from the ACLU of Wisconsin, 13 of Wisconsin’s 72 sheriff’s departments have signed cooperative agreements with federal immigration authorities. Under these agreements, they will help ICE identify and deport undocumented residents housed in local jails. Today’s guest, David Couper, predicts that up to 80% of Wisconsin sheriffs will eventually sign on. He joins host Esty Dinur to talk about ICE and democratic policing in Madison.
Couper says the city needs to continue fighting for “democratic policing,” a practice that includes being fair in the use of force, obeying the law wh...
2025-08-0153 minA Public AffairAn Imbalanced Bill
On July 4, Donald Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law. The 900+ page bill increases tax breaks for the wealthy and corporations while reducing healthcare and food assistance spending. Our guest today, Liz Pancotti points out a number of other, overlooked line-items in the bill, like the $325 million direct handout to Elon Musk and the elimination of a tax on firearms. She joins host Allen Ruff to talk about her recent article for Rolling Stone, “Trump’s Big Bill Will Make Americans Uninsured Again.”
What has been truly shocking to many is the fact t...
2025-07-3150 minA Public AffairThe Time For Change
In April of this year La Crosse, Wisconsin elected its first Black, gay mayor. Mayor Shaundel Washington-Spivey joins host Ali Muldrow to talk about his journey to becoming Mayor and what he hopes to achieve while in office.
Mayor Washington-Spivey got his start working in public schools and shares what it was like to work in education during COVID. His background working with youth has influenced his approach to politics, saying that he understands why young people want to see change and see it quickly. He predicts more young people running for office...
2025-07-3052 minA Public AffairThe Impact of CPB Funding on Community Radio
Last week, Trump signed a bill to cut over $1.1 billion dollars of federal funding to the Corporation of Public Broadcasting (CPB). The cuts were presented as attacks on NPR and WPR stations, but community radio stations are being painfully impacted by the cuts as well. Joining our show today is Jessie Dick, station manager for WXPR in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, Karl Halbeck, the manager of WOJB community radio on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe reservation, and Nathan Moore, manager of WTJU in Virginia, and a board member of the National Federation of Community Broadcasting.
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2025-07-2800 minA Public AffairColonialism and Ecocide in Bastar and Kashmir
On today’s two-part show, we get updates on issues facing the Indigenous peoples of India and Kashmir. Host Esty Dinur is joined by advocates Lokita Singha and Apekshita Varshney to talk about the violence being done to the Adivasi people and their mineral rich lands and by anthropologist Ather Zia who discusses the state of colonialism in Kashmir.
The Adivasi people make up about two-thirds of the population of Bastar, India. They are one of the most ancient tribal populations and they follow communitarian and sustainable practices, says Singha. They live in a...
2025-07-2500 minA Public AffairJoan Walsh Discusses the Cruelty of “Alligator Auschwitz”
The new detention center in the Florida Everglades is called “Alligator Alcatraz.” Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis worked with the federal government to create the tent-based camp that can hold a projected 3,000 detained migrants at the price tag of $450 million a year. Today, host Allen Ruff is joined by journalist Joan Walsh to talk about her recent piece in The Nation, “The Abominable Sadism of Alligator Auschwitz,” in which she draws the comparison between the new camp and the Holocaust.
The goal of “Alligator Alcatraz” is not just confinement but suffering, says Walsh. This cruelty is...
2025-07-2452 minA Public AffairIs it Satire or Reality?
Today, host Ali Muldrow is joined by comedian Andrew Wegleitner to talk about how comedy is more important than ever. Wegleitner has been doing stand up for 15 years and got his start right here in Madison, WI. He’s coming back to town to record his debut comedy special on August 3 at the Bur Oak as part of Madison Comedy Week.
Wegleitner talks about how he got his start in comedy, doing stand up at The Pub and Comedy on State. He says that Madison has a very welcoming scene for new comedians. Ne...
2025-07-2352 minA Public AffairAre our voting rights being protected by the SAVE Act?
On today’s show, guest host Dana Pellebon breaks down a piece of legislation called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act with two immigration experts, Cecilia Gillhouse and Huma Ahsan. The SAVE Act would require that voters provide proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. The purpose of this law is to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting and eliminate voter fraud.
It is already against the law for non-citizens to vote in federal and state elections and voter fraud is rare. These facts lead our guests to discuss the ideological re...
2025-07-2250 minA Public AffairGenocide is an absolute line
“No tragedy is too great to shrug away now,” amidst our “every growing tolerance for calamity and violence,” writes Omar El Akkad in his new New York Times bestseller, One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This. On today’s show, El Akkad joins host Douglas Haynes to talk about his new memoir, which weaves the personal essay with cultural critique in order to grapple with the US’s support of Israel’s slaughter and starvation of civilians in Gaza.
The purpose of literature is to bear witness, says El Akkad, especially at a time when...
2025-07-2153 minA Public AffairThe Past and Future of Madison Transportation
On today’s show, guest host Grant Foster interviews Tom Lynch, the recently retired Director of Transportation for the City of Madison. They take a deep dive into transportation policies like Vision Zero, the history of Madison’s transportation department, and what could come next for the BRT line.
Lynch served as Madison’s Director of Transportation for several decades. He describes how his job was created in the 80s, but due to some city drama, the role was empty for 30 years. Before he retired, Lynch gave a presentation to the Madison Common Council...
2025-07-1753 minA Public AffairHunger Makes Everything Harder
Recent cuts in state and federal budgets are leaving local food banks and food assistance organizations concerned about accelerating food insecurity. On today’s show, guest host Jonathan Pollack speaks with local non-profit leaders Michelle Orge of Second Harvest, Jackie Anderson of Feeding Wisconsin, and Ellen Carlson of WayForward Resources about food insecurity in Southwest Wisconsin.
The guests describe an uptick in people accessing their services. There’s been a 13% rise in people considered food insecure in Southwest Wisconsin, says Orge. She describes how Second Harvest responded during COVID, a time when they need...
2025-07-1548 minA Public AffairA Proven Model of Universal Childcare Exists
Since Governor Evers signed off on the new state budget, childcare advocates have voiced alarm at the lack of support for childcare in the budget. Though the state budget allocated over $360 million to help address the childcare crisis, the organization Wisconsin Early Childhood Action Needed (WECAN) says that “we were asking for the bare minimum, and somehow we got less.” Less than one-third of the allocated funds will go directly to keep childcare providers operating, and this funding will only last for one year.
This is a topic we’ve been following on this pr...
2025-07-1453 minA Public AffairTrading Civil Liberties for Fascism
On today’s show host Esty Dinur speaks again with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson about the decline of the American empire. Wilkerson says that on both the global and domestic fronts, the nation is doing very badly.
We’re less secure and safe than we’ve ever been in a general sense. In a national security sense, we’re doing better than ever, but there’s one major exception: nuclear weapons. The US has destroyed every nuclear treaty created during the Cold War and he worries about how the nation may deploy them again as it loses...
2025-07-1154 minA Public AffairSurprised by the Speed of Trumpism
On today’s show, host Allen Ruff speaks with longtime friend of the show Matt Rothschild who has been sounding the alarm about Trump since his first term as president. Recently he’s had speaking engagements across Dane County to talk about the dangers of MAGA and Trumpism.
Rothschild says he can smell a fascist a mile away, and he’s frustrated by the willful minimization and normalization of Trump and MAGA. When mainstream media outlets say that Trump doesn’t have a worldview, Rothschild offers a correction: Trump has a worldview, and it’s a ra...
2025-07-1051 minA Public AffairState and Federal Budget Debrief with Rep. Hong and Angela Lang
In the early morning of July 3, Governor Evers signed the two-year Wisconsin state budget after months of debate about funding for education, childcare, and more. The next day, President Trump signed into law the Big Beautiful Bill, which guts Medicaid and will result in the transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest Americans. At the state and national levels, the quality of our healthcare, childcare, and education system is in jeopardy, and to break down how these budgets will impact folks in Wisconsin and across the country, host Ali Muldrow is joined by...
2025-07-0953 minA Public AffairBeyond Firearms: Reimagining the Defense of Marginalized Communities
In a September 2024 presidential election debate, Kamala Harris said, “Tim Walz and I are both gun owners.” Nationally, democrats are becoming gun owners at a higher rate than conservatives. To talk about spiking demand for gun ownership and gun education, especially among queer-centered self-defense organizations, guest host Matvei Mozhaev is joined by Youtuber, Tacticool Girlfriend.
They talk about what self defense and protection mean within marginalized communities in the US. Tacticool says that US gun culture is too driven by consumption, and not driven enough by safety, including environmental safety, and suicide prevention. And...
2025-07-0851 minA Public AffairYou Can’t Have Your Meat and Your Conscience Too
On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes is joined by philosopher and writer, John Sanbonmatsu to talk about his book, The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves, published last month from NYU Press. Sanbonmatsu says that there’s a better way to be on this planet than approaching animals with dominion and violence.
Sanbonmatsu felt compelled to write this book after studying the politics of the Left and reading works like Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation, in which Singer says we have to take animal suffering into account...
2025-07-0753 minA Public AffairMiddle East Expert puts US Bombing of Iran in Perspective
Norman Stockwell sits in for Allen Ruff today to debrief with Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute. They talk about Trump’s decision to bomb Iran and the history of the US’s intervention in the Middle East that got us here today.
Sheline says Israel and the US’s bombing of Iran caught Iran off guard because Trump seemed to be engaged in good-faith negotiations. The diplomatic process broke down even though Tulsi Gabbard testified that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.
Iran was enriching uranium for civilian purposes, somethin...
2025-07-0354 minA Public AffairA Win for Reproductive Freedom in Wisconsin
This morning the Wisconsin Supreme Court ensured access to abortion care in the state by ruling that an 1849 law banning abortion cannot be enforced. This news comes on the heels of the three-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the US Supreme and in the same week as the US Congress could vote to defund Planned Parenthood. To talk about the status of reproductive rights, host Ali Muldrow is joined by Analiese Eicher of Planned Parenthood, Wisconsin.
Eicher says that people are feeling this as a victory of reproductive freedom a...
2025-07-0253 minA Public AffairWhen progressive ideas about government became anti-American
Many people conflate the anti-communist Red Scare of post-World War II America with the Hollywood blacklists portrayed in movies and TV shows or, particularly in Wisconsin, with McCarthyism. Today, guest host Christina Lieffring speaks with Clay Risen about his new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, in which he shows that the movement was much bigger than one industry or one man. The Red Scare was the first time there was a large-scale conspiratorial fear of the federal government such that progressive ideas became un-American.
Risen says that...
2025-07-0152 minA Public AffairRural Communities in Alaska Face Down Climate Change
Last week huge swaths of North America experienced record high temperatures, and the Alaskan arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the globe. To talk about the ways that climate change is affecting rural communities in Alaska, host Douglas Haynes is joined by ProPublica and KYUK journalist, Emily Schwing, about her recent article, “Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.”
Schwing says that there are over 140 communities in Alaska like Newtok facing coastal erosion, permafrost deterioration, and the implosion of infras...
2025-06-3053 minA Public AffairAddressing Housing from the Ground Up
On today’s show, host Carlos Dávalos speaks with scholar, Danny Parker, about her on-the-ground research on unhoused folks in Madison. Often we’re presented with a very top-down picture of civic infrastructure, but Parker reports from the front lines and focuses on the lived realities of the most vulnerable in our communities.
Parker’s early ethnographic work took place in Madison. She spent years sitting on sidewalks with unhoused people, eating and going to the hospital with them, and watching how the world responded to the people she was with. Based on her...
2025-06-2752 minA Public AffairThis War is about Oil
Political geographer and activist, Zoltán Grossman joins Allen Ruff to talk about the Israel-Iran-US war. They move beyond the mainstream media narratives and sanitized versions of history used to justify the US’s military engagement in the region. Grossman reminds listeners that 1953 was the beginning of the antagonism between the US and Iran and that the oil industry has always driven the US’s involvement in the Middle East.
Grossman also describes the development of anti-Muslim sentiment in the US, especially after 1979 and how this ideology has been used to sell the publi...
2025-06-2653 minA Public AffairLessons from Youth Poets
Young people are too often victims of our broken criminal justice system. 1 in 14 US children either has or has had a parent behind bars. And too often their teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, and even their own friends routinely overlook or stigmatize these young people as troubled, or trouble.
To talk about the experiences of youth impacted by the justice system, host Ali Muldrow welcomes back to the show Victor Trillo Jr. and Amy Friedman, to talk about the collection, Home and Away.
They talk about the profound hopefulness of youth artists i...
2025-06-2553 minA Public AffairThe Ongoing Violence of US Empire
On today’s show, host Sara Gabler speaks with Stephen Zunes and Negin Owliaei about the rapidly developing situation in Iran. On June 13 Israel launched an unprovoked attack on Tehran and only days ago President Trump ordered the bombing of three locations in Iran. Even if (as of this morning) the nations have reached a possible ceasefire, Israel and the US’s escalation of force will have long consequences for Iranian civilians and so much more.
Zunes describes the situation and how decades of US meddling in Iran got us here. He’s confide...
2025-06-2452 minA Public AffairState Budget Roundtable with Jessie Opoien and JR Ross
Every two years, Wisconsin goes through a grueling budget setting process. Last week, the GOP-led Joint Finance Committee cancelled their meeting despite the looming June 30 deadline for the next state budget. To make sense of the situation, host Douglas Haynes is joined by two veteran journalists, Jessie Opoien and JR Ross.
Issues like childcare and education are front and center for state lawmakers and for Wisconsin residents. Opoein says that spending for the UW System is a sticking point on both sides of the aisle. The proposed $87 million cut isn’t enough for some...
2025-06-2353 minA Public AffairHow Banality Enables Evil
On today’s show, host Esty Dinur speaks with two guests about Israel’s actions against Palestinians and now Iran. First, we’re joined by scholar Elizabeth Minnich who explains her philosophical study of banality and her new book, The Evil of Banality: On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking.
Studying under Hannah Arendt, Minnich watched the public’s confused reception of Arendt’s concept of the “banality of evil.” It was hard for people to accept that mundane actions could be monstrous. So Minnich strove to expand the definition of banality.
Now, Min...
2025-06-2053 minA Public AffairAnalyzing the LA protests with Truthout reporter Schuyler Mitchell
Today’s show breaks down the recent events in LA, from the growing impunity of ICE and the National Guard to the increasing authoritarianism of the Trump administration. Host Allen Ruff is joined by Schuyler Mitchell to talk about her recent piece in Truthout.
Mitchell describes witnessing 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in LA following the murder of George Floyd. At the time, the Governor and Mayor authorized the deployment of National Guard troops, and these troops, along with local law enforcement, responded to peaceful protesters with force. Since then, the city has paid out...
2025-06-1952 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 AffairYouth-Centered Spaces Are Missing in Madison
On today’s show, guest host Sabrina Madison speaks with two local leaders, Justice Castañeda and Rosa Thompson, about an issue that many folks overlook: the lack of teen-centered spaces in Dane County, especially for Black youth. They talk about what would be possible if youth were centered in the design and programming of public spaces. Because we close schools during the summer and community centers don’t stay open late, youth don’t have many places to go. What they need are spaces where they feel safe, that have robust programming, mentorship, and care fo...
2025-06-1752 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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 #Madison365
2023-06-121h 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 #Doula
2023-01-0958 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 #HopeOverHate
2022-09-191h 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 #SavionCastro
2022-08-151h 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 #SavionCastro
2021-09-131h 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...
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Know Your CandidatesMMSD, Seat 4: Ali MuldrowAli Muldrow, candidate for MMSD, Seat 4, explains their qualifications for this office and why they are running.
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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 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.
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