Since the 1980s, zebra mussels have starred as one of the main villains for the Midwest Great Lakes area, coating pipes and gunking up shipyard marinas with their prolific appearance. […]
Rebroadcast: The History of Racism in the Midwest
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 […]
The Looming Collapse of American Farming
Back in April, we hosted food and agriculture writer Tom Philpott to talk about the impact of COVID-19 on our food supply. Today, he returns to the show to discuss […]
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 […]
New Report Shows Extreme Racial Disparities in Wisconsin, Midwest
African Americans lag behind white Americans in employment and educational outcomes nationally, but University of Iowa Professor Colin Gordon’s Race in the Heartland report argues that the gap between white […]
The History of America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers with Anna-Lisa...
Long before the Civil War, thousands of African Americans owned property and worked the land as homestead farmers in the Northwest Territory, or the present-day states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, […]