The promise that you can “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is central to the story of the American dream. Yet could the belief in our own independence also be at the root of our suffering? Alissa Quart (pictured left), Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, considers this question in her new book “Bootstrapped.” Hear Quart in conversation with WPR’s
MADISON, Wis. - Three design teams will present their ambitious visions for a reimagined Lake Monona waterfront at 6 p.m. Thursday at Madison’s Central Library.
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Public meetings featuring the design teams working on proposals for reimagning 1.7 miles of shoreline: final presentations 6 pm, 1/26, Central Library, with music & food beginning 5:30 pm. Click through for streaming link.
Martin Luther King Jr. Coalition of Madison & Dane County annual event, with freedom songs sing-in 5:15 pm, program 6 pm with keynote by Donzaleigh Abernathy, emcee Telisa Yancy, MLK Community Choir, MLK Humanitarian Awards.