SSW Radio

In the days leading up to Valentine's Day, SSW Radio is dropping mini "Modern Love" inspired interviews. In Part 3, "Café Counsel," Peggy Xu and Sammie Spector talk with baristas from around the South Side. Listen for love advice from some of our favorite employees at Z&H in Hyde Park and Greenline Coffee in Woodlawn. These short stories about unconventional love on the South Side of Chicago range...

In the days leading up to Valentine's Day, SSW Radio is dropping mini "Modern Love" inspired interviews. In Part 2, "Control," Gozie Nwachukwu interviews a high school senior about the challenge of having a controlling boyfriend at the tough age of 15. They discuss balancing friends, boyfriends, school, and the body policing of yoga pants. These short stories about unconventional love on the South...

In the days leading up to Valentine's Day, SSW Radio is dropping mini "Modern Love" inspired interviews. In Part I, "That Thing," Bess Cohen interviews a group of middle schoolers about L-O-V-E: what does love mean to them? what are their crushes like? how do they know if they've been in love, if they have? This interview, inspired by the interviews on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, begins our V...

In Episode 3 of SSW Radio, Lewis Page interviews Chaclyn Hunt of the Youth/Police Project. Once a week, a group of students, lawyers, law students, and academics meet with a media production class at Hyde Park Academy to talk about policing. They call this the Youth/Police project. This isn't an activist organization, though. Their mission is a little harder to describe.

In episode two of SSW Radio, Lowell "RaceMan" Thompson, who was born in Bronzeville in 1947 and became one of the first residents of the Robert Taylor Homes, discusses his past as a rare black face in the advertising industry. Angel Davanport, hip-hop musician of the Skigh Mob and Rapper Chicks collectives, talks about her unorthodox musical background and the glass ceiling for women in hip-hop.

SSW Radio launches our podcast with three interviews from locals of the South Side, as featured in our newsprint counterpart, the South Side Weekly. Includes interviews with rapper Psalm One, youth development director Robyn Delahousay, and an uber driver.