The phrase “coming out” has its origins in the debutante balls “or coming out parties” aristocratic young women traditionally held to announce their entrance into high society and their eligibility for marriage. But, starting at the turn of the twentieth century, gay subcultures began appropriating the term, and now the idea of “coming out” to […]
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: How Black Lives Matter Changed America
In August of 2014, Ferguson, Missouri Police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed 18-year old Michael Brown in the middle of Ferguson’s Canfield Street. Although Wilson stated that Brown attempted to steal Wilson’s gun, witnesses at the scene stated that Brown had his hands in the air when Wilson shot him six times. Eight months […]
Comic Book Geekery
This week on Mel & Floyd: Lois Lane’s Lead Box of Shame and Other Superman Ephemera; Mr. Smarty Pants Expounds On The Problems With Walls & Mel Speaks Up for The Hmong; Office Hijinks At The CIA; Does Ontogeny Really Recapitulate Phylogeny?; Subscribe to the Mel & Floyd Podcast on itunes and Never Miss Another […]
Split Show: Disinformation and First Nations Opposition to Border Wall...
On this episode, we hear two very different critiques of the Trump administration. First, journalist McKay Coppins offers the latest on his reporting about disinformation in the 2020 Trump campaign. Then, tribal law expert Richard Monette joins Esty in the studio for a discussion of the Tohono O’odham Nation’s opposition to Trump’s border wall and […]
Public History: WWI and the Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Today on the program, we look back one hundred years to the public health effects of World War I and the influenza pandemic of 1918 with Micaela Sullivan-Fowler, curator of the Staggering Losses exhibit at UW–Madison’s Ebling Library for the Health Sciences, open to the public until Friday, February 28. More information about the exhibit, […]
You could be our new morning talk host!
Do you have a passion for performing? Do you love local news, science, culture, and arts? Are you searching for a platform to highlight people in the community? Apply to be the next host of our morning drive time program. About the show: The 8 O’Clock Buzz is a an upbeat, morning program on WORT […]
