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Jul 10

Jul 10 Nascar Chicago Street Race 2024

WCRXFM had the privilege of attending the Nascar Chicago Street Race Weekend 2024! This was the second year for the race as well as WCRX’s second year in a row covering the event. Here’s the scoop on how the weekend went!

Apr 2

Apr 2 Illinois Election 2024 Primary Voters

Matt Cunningham

Columbia College Chicago Reporting 1 Students spent the Illinois’ Primary Election Day 2024 speaking with Chicagoans about their thoughts on voting.

Reporters include: Madison Blancas, Mya DeJesus, Jazlynn Edwards, Leonardo Esparza, Leah Flanigan, Adriah Hedrick, Samantha Ho, Kate Julianne Larroder and Izzy Smith

Sep 30

Sep 30 Oral Traditions 2023 Episode 1

Max Hatlem

Student Work, Audio Documentary

In this episode, students speak with musicians and experts of Chicago's rich jazz scene and discuss topics from the birth of the free jazz movement to the modern artists who are pushing the boundaries of the genre. We continue the show by exploring the fashions of West Africa with international designer and philanthropist, Haj Gueye. Haj goes into his formative experiences in fashion, the mission of his brand, and fashion as a means of storytelling.

Dec 7

Dec 7 What We Owe - Chicago Anti-Apartheid Pt 2

Matt Cunningham

“What We Owe,” our two-part podcast created by Columbia College Chicago students Bri Ramiriz and Adiam Woldu and funded by a grant from the Council of Independent Colleges’ Humanities Research for the Public Good. “What We Owe” is drawn from oral history interviews in the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement archival collections held at Columbia College Chicago.

Part two opens with the narrators’ activist origin stories and challenges the movement faced. It closes with Adiam and Bri ask the listeners to think about “What We Owe.”

Dec 7

Dec 7 "What We Owe" Chicago Anti-Apartheid Pt 1

Matt Cunningham

“What We Owe,” our two-part podcast created by Columbia College Chicago students Bri Ramiriz and Adiam Woldu and funded by a grant from the Council of Independent Colleges’ Humanities Research for the Public Good. This podcast is drawn from oral history interviews in the Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement archival collections held at Columbia College Chicago.

In part one, the students introduce us to the subject of Apartheid and five of the activists interviewed for the collection.