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Two esteemed professors have teamed up for a new book that gives guidance to college faculty, advisors, and administrators invested in the success of Black women on campuses.

It’s called Sister Resisters: Mentoring Black Women on Campus (April 2022, Harvard Education Press). Through case studies, student narratives, and research, authors Dr. Tracy Robinson-Wood and Dr. Janie Victoria Ward document the deterrents young Black women face on campuses, and call on campus mentors to increase their own cultural competencies.

The book provides evidence-based tools to help mentors and mentees further educational, racial, and gender equality from an anti-racist, consciousness-raising lens. Drs. Tracy Robinson-Wood and  Janie Victoria Ward join Wednesday 8 O’Clock Buzz host Jan Miyasaki for a conversation about helping young Black women succeed on campuses.

About the guests: 

Tracy Robinson-Wood is professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University, where she is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Addictions Counselor. Dr. Robinson-Wood’s research investigates resiliency; intersectionality among race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class; microaggressions across racial, ethnic, gender and sexual diversity; and racial socialization in interracial families. The fifth edition of her textbook, The Convergence of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Multiple Identities in Counseling, was published in 2017 by SAGE Publications.

Janie Victoria Ward is professor emerita in the Departments of Education and Africana Studies at Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts, where she researches developmental issues of African American adolescents.  She holds a master’s degree in counseling and consulting psychology and a doctorate in human development from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the co-editor of three texts, and is also the author of The Skin We’re In: Teaching Our Children to be Emotionally Strong, Socially Smart and Spiritually Connected (Fireside, 2000), which focuses on racial socialization in Black families.

 

 

WORT 89.9FM Madison · A Walk Through Madisons Black History

For many years, the Wisconsin Historical Museum has featured a series of walking tours of downtown Madison, focusing on Madison’s “Weird Side,” “Infamy, Scandals and Mystery,” and the “Hidden History of Capital Square.”  On Saturday, July 9th, the Museum, together with the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, will test out a new – perhaps long overdue – tour showcasing the “Black History of Madison.”  Wisconsin Historical Museum tour guide Tanika Apaloo will lead the tour.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · 350 Wisconsin Reacts To SCOTUS Defanging EPA

A number of recent U.S. Supreme Court cases have drawn political ire and fear among liberals – Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the Roe v. Wade decision that we most recently discussed, and West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. And while the core question differs from case to case, conservative policy makers have targeted all of these laws to question the authorities granted in each case. In the latest court decision by a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court dealt a gut punching blow to the regulatory powers from the EPA, specifically regarding the policy measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-powered plants. In the studio to explain the ramifications of this decision is John Greenler, Executive Director for 350 Wisconsin.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · SCOTUS Leaves Wisconsin With Tangled Mess Of Abortion Law

In the U.S. Supreme Court’s  6-3 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, Justice Alito writes that “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority. The Court overrules those decisions and returns that authority to the people and their elected representatives.”  The court’s dismissal of fifty years of legal precedent has thrown the legal status of abortion into turmoil, where many states, including Wisconsin, now wrestle with a complicated mess of antiquated statutes.  Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism reporter Phoebe Petrovic tried to untangle the messy law of the land now in the Badger State.

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Jan Miyasaki talks with Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law and co-host of “Law and Disorder” on Pacifica Radio, about the recent Supreme Court ruling negating the “settled law” decision in Roe v Wade. Cohn states that nothing in the legal system has changed since the original decision except that the Court is now controlled by “Christian Zealots”, who, she expects, will continue to undermine rights of contraception and same-sex conduct and marriage.

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Twenty-three million people are starving in Afghanistan, according to Zaher Wahab, Professor Emeritus at Lewis and Clark Graduate School of Education. Because of massive corruption and cronyism during the U. S. occupation added to 20 years of no development of infrastructure and now world sanctions and frozen assets led by the U. S., Afghanistan has gone from a country where people would come for higher education challenges to a country of no work, no food, and no opportunity. Wahab and others call for the U. S. to Unfreeze Aid to Afghanistan.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Aaron Perry and Dr. Logan Edwards, Family Medicine specialist Dr. Khider Elnimeiry MD joins us to talk about being a Black doctor, and the work he is going to do at Perry Family Free Clinic serving uninsured and under-insured men residing in Dane and Rock County.

Black Men in White Coats: https://www.blackmeninwhitecoats.org/ 

More on Aaron Perry and Rebalanced Life: https://rebalanced-life.org/our-founder 

More on Dr. Edwards: https://uwwsports.com/staff-directory/dr-logan-edwards/464 and ​​https://www.uww.edu/umc/why-i-teach/logan-edwards 

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Aaron Perry and Dr. Logan Edwards, John Milton, Multicultural Service Coordinator at La Follette High School joins us to talk about his highly successful Youth Basketball Camp featuring former NBA player Jason Terry at Glacial Drumlin Middle School, setting your mind and body, and what’s up next.

More on John from Madison.com: https://madison.com/news/local/know-your-madisonian-minority-services-coordinator-spends-spring-break-taking-students-to-historically-black-universities/article_3c406e28-b029-5e81-91ff-eefdfe19f6a6.html 

And on the Jason Terry basketball camp: https://www.mcpasd.k12.wi.us/o/mhs/article/768482 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Time (Is) An Exploration Of Black Art In Madison

Time (Is): An Exploration of Black Art in Madison showcases the work of four African-American visual, performing and conceptual artists.  The exhibit’s been running since April 1, and closes on July 6 at the Diane Ballweg Gallery on the 3rd floor of the Madison Central Library.  Curator and videographer Sophia Abrams joined the Monday Buzz with more.

 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · When Animals Dream

When Brian Standing’s dog, Luna, sleeps, she will often twitch and whimper as she slumbers. Her legs tense, her paws clench. Sometimes her tail will wag speedily, sometimes her lips curl back into a snarl. All of this while in a deep sleep. Most people observing this behavior would say “the dog is dreaming.” Neurologists, biologists and philosophers, however, have been surprisingly reluctant to affirm this common-sense notion, and for centuries have claimed that true dreaming is exclusively reserved for the homo sapiens species. In his new book, “When Animals Dream,” San Francisco State University philosopher David Peña-Guzman cites new evidence that suggests that a wide variety of animals dream. Dreaming, Guzman says, implies consciousness. And consciousness carries moral implications. David Peña-Guzman joined the Monday Buzz from Paris, France.

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