IT’S BEEN RED SUMMER FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS.
The term “Red Summer” refers to the race-driven violence in the Summer of 1919 across the United States, but its repercussions, its facial expression, its vocabulary can be felt or heard …
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Previously Published in “South Side Weekly:
The Comics Issue 2019” July 9th 2019.…
Photo of Yoana Sanchez by Marcos Sanzhez
A Collaboration Project between Yollocalli, Enlace, & The Kickback
Today our lives are recorded frequently and instantly, and sometimes we forget to pause to remember what that moment meant. We present a collection …
Chicago emcee Serengeti has wrought the Kenny Dennis saga with an arresting level of specificity. It’s impossible to comprehensively summarize the body of work, spread over many albums, in fewer words than the work comprises. The saga is an embellished, …
to balloons descending to man in the diminutive
in the crater by pier light
to the logotype eased the eyes upwards
to fields of water unsuited
for processions of beast & burial to summer’s
tactile deprivation interrupted
to skydivers in …
Photo by Rachel Winslow. Members of /Jə’raf/. From left to right: Brianna Tong, Eli Namay, Bill Harris, PT Bell, David Fletcher, Wills McKenna, Ishmael Ali.
Around March 1, just before the Illinois stay-at-home order was issued, a very rare album …
Photo of Samantha Riott by Libby Smith.
Samantha Riott is a spoken word musician out of New York City. She came through Chicago fall 2019 while touring her latest album Bloodletting. Her performance at DIY venue Bohemian Grove in McKinley …
Photo of LeSage Williams by Caroline Liu
LeSage Williams released their Stay Safe, Be Good EP in 2018 and their single “King Latifah” in 2019, merging spoken word and R&B to convey the joys and realities of growing up as …
photo of NNAMDÏ by Tim Nagle
Chicago musical polymath NNAMDÏ released his new album BRAT which April 3 on Sooper Records, a masterpiece follow-up to their 2017 DROOL which brought him into the national spotlight, garnering articles on VICE and …
