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Stories and interviews from the people of the South Side of Chicago. Send submissions, story ideas, comments, or questions to editor@southsideweekly.com or southsideweeklyradio@gmail.com Or mail to: Attn: South Side Weekly Radio Experimental Station 6100 S. Blackstone Ave. Chicago, IL 60637 Masthead Producers: South Side Weekly Hosts: Erisa Apantaku, Andrew Koski, Sam Larsen, Lewis Page Intros by: Erisa Apantaku

Episodes

The Multi-Million-Dollar Corporation

August 2, 2023 • 62 mins

This is story 2 of 3 in the series “What happened to the Tudor Gables?” This is a series co-produced with the Hyde Park Herald, profiling a historic Black-owned housing cooperative on Drexel Boulevard. In March 2021, after a $3.4 million rehab project, the cooperative abruptly dissolved and sold the building. The Herald/Weekly interviewed dozens of Tudor Gables shareholders, lawyers, contractors, and neighbors and reviewed hundreds...

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The Castle on Drexel

July 31, 2023 • 26 mins

This is story 1 of 3 in the series “What happened to the Tudor Gables?” This is a series co-produced with the Hyde Park Herald, profiling a historic Black-owned housing cooperative on Drexel Boulevard. In March 2021, after a $3.4 million rehab project, the cooperative abruptly dissolved and sold the building. The Herald/Weekly interviewed dozens of Tudor Gables shareholders, lawyers, contractors, and neighbors and reviewed hundreds...

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What's to Come for the 4800 Block of South Drexel Boulevard?

May 23, 2023 • 22 mins

This is story 3 of 3 in the series “What happened to the Tudor Gables?” This is a series co-produced with the Hyde Park Herald, profiling a historic Black-owned housing cooperative on Drexel Boulevard. In March 2021, after a $3.4 million rehab project, the cooperative abruptly dissolved and sold the building. The Herald/Weekly interviewed dozens of Tudor Gables shareholders, lawyers, contractors, and neighbors and reviewed hundreds...

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With Me by Armani Rogers

January 31, 2022 • 1 min

The Exchange: The Weekly's poetry corner offers our thoughts in exchange for yours With me by Armani Rogers Read by Armani Rogers Submissions can be sent to bit.ly/ssw-exchange or via email to chima.ikoro@southsideweekly.com.

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Blindspot

December 8, 2021 • 1 min

The Exchange: The Weekly's poetry corner offers our thoughts in exchange for yours Blindspot By Vernique Dyson Read by Vernique Dyson Submissions can be sent to bit.ly/ssw-exchange or via email to chima.ikoro@southsideweekly.com.

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Author of The Mexican Revolution in Chicago

June 26, 2021 • 36 mins

From the roaring twenties to the cold sixties, Mexicans in the Chicago area embodied a diverse, pluralist society where political, cultural, and religious continuums converged, seeding the region’s contemporary Mexican-American civilization. An interview of book author Dr. John H. Flores by Matthew Carnero Macías for South Side Weekly.

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Envisioning New Futures with Chris Rudd: A Tale of Two Futures - The Probable and the Preferred

November 11, 2020 • 7 mins

Designer Chris Rudd on the dichotomy between the probable future and the preferred future, and how to start thinking more about your preferred future. Hint: give it time. Read the accompanying print story at https://southsideweekly.com/into-the-futures/. Read about the results of the Institute of Design’s 2019 design studio pop-up in Boxville here: https://id.iit.edu/projects/51-futures-bronzeville/ This episode was produced by...

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Envisioning New Futures with Benji Hart: What Brings You Joy?

November 11, 2020 • 10 mins

Benji Hart on how to envision new futures and how examples of liberation exist in the present and in previous generations. Read the accompanying print story at https://southsideweekly.com/into-the-futures/. This episode was produced by Erisa Apantaku. Music in this episode was "Stop the Clocks" by Anamorphic Orchestra (CC BY-NC 3.0) and "Ambience, Peaceful Synth.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org. Illustration...

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Envisioning New Futures with Chandra Christmas-Rouse: What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?

November 11, 2020 • 8 mins

Chandra Christmas-Rouse on how to envision and build the future you want to inhabit through thinking about your values, cultures, and traditions. In other words, what kind of ancestor do you want to be? Read the accompanying print story at https://southsideweekly.com/into-the-futures/. This episode was produced by Erisa Apantaku. Music in this episode was "Stop the Clocks" by Anamorphic Orchestra (CC BY-NC 3.0) and "Ambience, Pea...

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What's to Come for the 4800 Block of South Drexel Boulevard?

With Me by Armani Rogers

Blindspot

Author of The Mexican Revolution in Chicago

Envisioning New Futures with Chris Rudd: A Tale of Two Futures - The Probable and the Preferred

Envisioning New Futures with Benji Hart: What Brings You Joy?

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