In honor of the one-year anniversary of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, we’re re-airing this interview with host Ali Muldrow in conversation with historians Christy Clark-Pujara and Anna-Lisa Cox about the history of racism in the Midwest. This episode originally aired on September 2, 2020. There are myths that persist about […]
Harriet Tubman Is Not A Commodity
Less than a month after rioters carrying confederate battle flags stormed the U.S. Capitol, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced that the Treasury Department would accelerate plans to replace the likeness of former President and General Andrew Jackson on the twenty dollar bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. By reviving the Obama-era plan, which became […]
Slavery to Suffrage with Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara
Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Damita Brown (in exile)… UW-Madison’s Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara, Associate Professor of History in the Department of Afro-American Studies joins for the whole hour to talk about Slavery and it’s legacy, her book, “Dark Work: The Business of Slavery” and her current work, a new book, “Slavery to Suffrage: Black […]
Radio Chipstone: Black Male Suffrage Repost
As the nation waits to see who will be Commander in Chief for the next four years, Wisconsin shocked the current administration by returning to Blue. This turn could put the country on track to see the election of our first Woman of Color Vice-President. A far cry from a time in our state when […]
The History of Racism in the Midwest
There are myths that persist about the Midwest: that it’s just a “naturally” white space, that Black folks haven’t lived here that long, that it doesn’t have the same histories of slavery, racism, and violence as the South. Last week, in the wake of police violence and white vigilantism in Kenosha, Smithsonian Magazine published an […]
Radio Chipstone: Black Male Suffrage
As people continue to take to the streets to demand justice, it’s not the first time Black people in our state have fought for their Civil Rights. In the early 1840s, Wisconsin met the critical mass for becoming a state. The population was a mix of Native people, North Easterners, and those from the upper […]
