Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. on January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky), passed away Friday evening, June 3, 2016, after a short hospitalization for a respiratory illness. He had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for many years. As the world mourns “The Greatest of All Time”, staff and volunteers at community radio WORT-FM recall […]
Remembering Longtime Radio Literature Volunteer, Poet and Activist Dan...
This story originally appeared June 01, 2016 on The Progressive website. Madison, Wisconsin, and the world have lost a great voice for peace and justice. Poet and activist Daniel Kunene died this past week at the age of 93. Kunene was a professor emeritus in the University of Wisconsin Department of African Languages and Literature […]
Book Event: People Get Ready
John Nichols and Bob McChesney have written a new book, People Get Ready, and they want WORTians to be the first to hear about it at a special, free event, Friday, February 19, 7 pm, at the downtown Madison Public Library, co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Book Festival. Nichols and McChesney are household names for WORT listeners. […]
WORT Will Broadcast Live from the Martin Luther King Day Events
This year will be the 36th annual State of Wisconsin commemoration of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – the oldest state commemoration in the U.S. – and WORT community radio, in cooperation with Wisconsin Public Radio and TV, will broadcast the ceremony live from the Capitol Rotunda at 12noon in […]
Eclipse of the Assassins
What are the connections between the 1984 murder of Mexican journalist Manuel Buendía and the U.S. proxy wars in Central America in the 1980s? A brand new book by journalists Russell Bartley and Sylvia Erickson Bartley looks at this question and many other connected issues in the last years of the Cold War. Their 30-year […]
Former Breakfast Special Host Chris Ward passes
WORT has learned that former programmer Chris Ward has passed away. Ward died of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Washington, DC where he lived with his wife, Saaraliisa Ylitalo. Chris Ward was a popular figure on WORT in the early 1980s, hosting the Breakfast Special from 1984-85, a rock program called Tirebiter’s […]
