Nascar Chicago Street Race 2024

Nascar Chicago Street Race 2024

Max Hatlem

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!

Illinois Election 2024 Primary Voters

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

Neural Picture Show

Neural Picture Show

Matt Cunningham
Student Work

You ever wanted to see with your brain? Be transported through the power of sound? Feel a gut punch with your mind? Then look no further than the Neural picture show. Combining the three Cs; Crime, Country and Candy. With 8 unique audio plays, welcome to the Neural Picture Show.

Oral Traditions 2023 Episode 2

Oral Traditions 2023 Episode 2

Max Hatlem
Audio Documentary, Student Work

Students draw comparisons between their own cultures and that of the Maroons, formerly enslaved Africans who fled imprisonment and formed close-knit communities throughout the americas. Our second segment explores rituals and spirituality of the Fon people. Concluding today’s show is a commentary on the book, Five Hundred African Voices, the accounts of African slave ship survivors. Students highlight Rosa Cruz, a formerly enslaved writer and religious mystic, and Phillis Wheatley, the first known and published African American poet.

Oral Traditions 2023 Episode 1

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.

What We Owe - Chicago Anti-Apartheid Pt 2

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.”

"What We Owe" Chicago Anti-Apartheid Pt 1

"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.

Radio Stories - 04

Radio Stories - 04

Matt Cunningham
Audio Documentary, Student Work

A collaborative student documentary created at the beginning of the world-wide coronavirus Pandemic and authored by the radio and audio documentary capstone class at Columbia College Chicago. It includes several stories of everyday people dealing with the effects of virus, including families dealing with members who’ve contracted Covid-19, medical professionals, first responders, a woman trying to raise a toddler, athletes with dreams on hold, an immigrant family, conspiracy theories and graduating students facing uncertain futures.

Radio Stories - 03

Radio Stories - 03

Wesley Reno
Student Work, Audio Documentary

Radio Stories is a collection of audio documentaries from Students at Columbia College Chicago. This episode of Radio Stories sent the students out into the world to document somebody else’s experience. Hear about maintaining an animal boarding facility, an account of homelessness, the tournament scene for a popular video game, what therapists do to destress, and much more in this episode of Radio Stories.

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