Frozen Assets 5K Run/Walk Join Clean Lakes Alliance for our Frozen Assets 5K and run or walk ENTIRELY on a frozen lake! Take a break from the hilly pavement and bring your stride to the ice. In this 5K race, participants will run, walk, or snowshoe across the ice on iconic Lake Mendota with beautiful […]
Diversity, But Also Inclusion
UW-Madison, in an effort to support diversity and inclusion on its campus, houses the Multicultural Learning Community in University Housing. The space is meant to facilitate community discussions about social justice, identities, and multiculturalism. However, University Housing moved to place house fellow Chuefang Yang on paid administrative last year. Yang allegedly told students to limit […]
The Political and Cultural Power of Comedy with Hari Kondabolu
They say laughter is the best medicine—and if that’s true, stand-up comic Hari Kondabolu is here to heal a sick society. Today, he joins Esty in the studio for a wide-ranging conversation about the political and cultural significance of comedy. They talk about when it’s okay to joke about sensitive topics, what it means to […]
Round Table on the N-Word
The firing (and later reinstatement) of security guard Marlon Anderson by Madison Metropolitan School District for repeating a racial slur in an educational moment with a student has ignited a national conversation about race, racism, language, history, and context. Today on the podcast, guest host Harry Hawkins facilitates a timely round table about the n-word, […]
Reclaiming Community with Bianca Baldridge
Approximately 2.4 million Black youth throughout the United States participate in a wide range of after-school programs that focus on tutoring, academic achievement, sports and play, organizing and activism, cultural identity, and more. Today on the show, Carousel sits down with Bianca J. Baldridge to talk about the youth workers who run these programs—who are […]
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 and black Midwesterners is among the worst in the country. Furthermore, a related paper entitled “Wisconsin’s Extreme Racial Disparity” uses data from Gordon’s report to […]
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