Mar 30, 2026
Angela welcomes back the very first Black Oxygen guest, Opal Tomashevska — a Madison native, credit union leader, poet, and newly elected board president of the Lussier Community Education Center — for a rich conversation on community care as resistance. Rooted in Opal's story of growing up in Wexford Ridge and...
Mar 16, 2026
What if the story you've been afraid to tell is the exact story
someone else needs to hear?
New episode of Black Oxygen is live, and this conversation with
Danielle Hairston-Green hit different.
Danielle is a Moth Story Slam winner, host, storyteller, and
director at UW-Madison Extension. She came to Wisconsin...
Mar 2, 2026
In this episode of Black Oxygen, host Angela Russell is joined by former Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle for a wide-ranging conversation about diversity, race, leadership, and democracy.
Governor Doyle reflects on the formative experiences that shaped his values. We dig into the mechanics of building diverse teams without...