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Volume 3 episode 2. Welcome, welcome y'all.  Today's episode is with one of the legendary members of the The Era Footwork Crew,  Sterling Lofton aka ‘Steelo'.  Steelo is a 2020 CDF Lab Artist and has been developing “Sterling Publishing Company (SPC),” a new performance at the intersections of fashion and dance across Black history.  Like many other artists the pandemic has been challenging for Steelo's creative process.  We will also be chatting about The Era's performance of In the Wurkz at Links Hall in 2019.  The group says their Links Hall performance “represents their “community debut” of the group and the long developed project.  I was fortunate enough to see this performance and remember walking away thinking that The Era is here to educate and also get you hyped. They're going to deliver a message and be always true to themselves. They are the shit. Our Episode 2 co-host is Christopher “Mad Dog” Thomas.  Mad Dog is also a footworker as well as an extremely motivated dancer, activist, and youth mentor.  Mad Dog is the Program Manager for Kuumba Lynx and teaches a footwork program at the juvenile temporary detention center as part of a social/emotional learning program. Mad Dog is also a 2020 CDF Lab Artist and is spending his lab year codifying his style of Chicago Footwork while developing new choreographies that tell the stories of how bodies react to certain traumas, including his own.  

In this inspiring and revealing conversation, Jacinda Bullie and Darius Parker of Kuumba Lynx sit down with Audrey Francis to talk about the vital and empowering work they do with youth across Chicago. Through performances, film screenings, art making workshops, and more, Kuumba Lynx brings a Hip Hop lens to their work of urban artistry and activism. Listen to learn about the philosophy, history and future of one of the most treasured youth centered organizations in the city.Interview begins at 5:22.Kuumba Lynx is an urban arts youth development organization founded in 1996 by three women, Jaquanda Villegas, Leyda "Lady Sol" Garcia, and Jacinda Bullie. For two decades, alongside many of Chicago's artists, activists, educators, and youth communities, Kuumba Lynx has honed an arts making practice that presents, preserves and promotes Hip Hop as a tool to resist systemic violence where black and brown youth can reimagine and demonstrate a more just world. KL's Program Facilitators are a collective of artists, activists, educators, and healers.Learn more at Steppenwolf.orgWant to get in touch? Email halfhour@steppenwolf.orgA transcript of this episode can be found HERE

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. We wrap up the suite in style with co-curator Jacinda Bullie of Kuumba Lynx. Jacinda shares what jumped out to her from the past episodes, goes in-depth into how she's wrestling with accountability's complexity, breaks down how her family life informs her mentorship, and much more! SHOW NOTES Kesho's 4 Stages of Mentorship: Stages 1 - Entering Humbly 2 - Negotiating the dynamics and what is being asked and offered 3 - Showing that she was enabling growth - accountable to showing what had been learned from the last time 4 - Closing of the relationship Kesho's Steps for Healing: 1. Awareness 2. Acceptance 3. Restitution (symbolic and repair) 4. Policy change 5. Shift in cultural norms 6. Celebration 7. Memorialize the cast of characters Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

AirGo is excited to present The Mentorship Suite, a series of episodes exploring the joys, contradictions, and radical possibilities of this often fraught term. We kick it off with the suite's co-curator Jacinda Bullie, who is the co-founder of youth arts and healing organization Kuumba Lynx. Jacinda breaks down why she bristles at the term "mentor," what she's learned from the folks who have helped her grow, how she approaches her contribution to the youth at KL, and much more. SHOW NOTES Kuumba Lynx - https://www.kuumbalynx.com/ Healthy Hood Chi - http://www.healthyhoodchi.com/ Inipi Sweat Ceremony - http://aktalakota.stjo.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=8671 Assata: An Autobiography - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100322.Assata A Taste of Power by Elaine Brown - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/913316.A_Taste_of_Power Become an AirGo Amplifier - airgoradio.com/donate Rate and review AirGo - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091

(S4, EP 11) Longtime Korean-American community organizer & activist Steve Moon joined me for this week's episode. For years, Steve has been cultivating Asian / Black and Brown community solidarity on issues with immigration, police brutality, gentrification, among others in Chicago. He speaks about his experiences in community organizing and youth development, and how he has since transitioned since being a father. He also spoke about his experience mentoring the late Asian-American hip hop artist John Vietnam Nguyen who died in a drowning accident in 2012 at the age of 19, and what his legacy has meant to the Vietnamese / Asian American community in Chicago since then. Check out more on this episode! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bio: For the past twenty years, Steve Hosik Moon has been committed to youth development, community organizing, advocacy, and cultural work, mostly in Chicago with immigrant and refugee communities. He has recently entered philanthropy and is currently the Director of Elgin Programs at the Grand Victoria Foundation. Steve is also a Board Member of Kuumba Lynx. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Season 4 is sponsored by Red Scarf Revolution (RSR). RSR aims to bring awareness to the tragedies, atrocities and cultural destruction the Cambodian people endured from 1975 to 1979 under the Khmer Rouge regime and how that period impacts us today. With that awareness, Red Scarf Revolution advocates the silenced art, music, culture, and language, with designs that incite the resiliency of the Cambodian people. Visit them at www.redscarfrevolution.com to check out their merch line and to learn more about their work, or follow their Instagram at red_scarf_revolution or on their Facebook. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/banhmichronicles/support

AirGo is excited to present The Education Suite, a collection of episodes focusing on the liberatory histories and futures of education. This suite is co-curated by AirGo fam and general genius Eve Ewing, a professor and poet whose work is at the forefront of public conversation around the ways our education system has harmed Black and Brown young people, and the ways that our school buildings connect to larger systems of inequity across the country. On this episode, we go into the classroom at Uplift High School, a social justice CPS school in Uptown that Dame and Kiss taught a 10-week block at in the spring of 2019. Hear from the students of Uplift about what freedom means, what they want to learn about, how they know when to lead and when to follow, and much more. SHOW NOTES HUGE thanks to Justin Barnes for his work editing the audio from our sessions at Uplift! Thanks to Zain Bullie for hosting us in his class. Check out our On the Line episode with him: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-237-on-the-line-with-zain-bullie/id1016530091 Support amazing organization Kuumba Lynx: https://www.kuumbalynx.com/ Subscribe, rate, and review AirGo on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/airgo/id1016530091 Donate to AirGo: airgoradio.com/donate

Guys we can't believe it! We're almost wrapping up our three month stay/quarantine/etc in Koh Phangan, Thailand. We stumbled upon this magical island by chance and it has been a great part of our journey. In this episode, we give you a run down of the island and what it's like to live here. In a future episode, we'll go over what our individual experiences were like and what we liked/didn't like about the island so stay tuned for that! We have some great episodes in store for you over the coming weeks so get excited! As we mentioned in the beginning, we would be posting some links to organizations you can support during this time of protest and pain in the U.S.: Assata's Daughter: https://www.assatasdaughters.org/ (https://www.assatasdaughters.org/) (black women owned and operated) Kuumba Lynx: https://www.kuumbalynx.com/ (https://www.kuumbalynx.com/) (performance, art and community) My Block, My Hood, My City: https://www.formyblock.org/mission (https://www.formyblock.org/mission) Uniquely You Summit: https://www.uniquelyyousummit.org/ (https://www.uniquelyyousummit.org/) (empowering and educating black women) Be sure to follow us @YearDisrupted on Instagram and check out our blog www.yeardisrupted.com (http://www.yeardisrupted.com/)

From the isolation of our homes, AirGo is presenting a series called On the Line, which focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and the people putting their bodies on the line to help us all survive and heal. Over the next few weeks, we'll be hopping on the line with workers in the health care, educational, governmental, organizing, and prison abolition spheres to talk about what their work looks like right now, and what we can do to help as we isolate our physical bodies at home. This episode's guest is Zain Bullie, a high school teacher and mentor at Uplift High School, a social justice CPS school in Uptown. Bullie breaks down what the transition to online learning has been like, how he and his fellow teachers have adapted to be there for both their students and their students' families, some of the humanizing potential of this crisis, and more. Check out Kuumba Lynx: https://www.kuumbalynx.com/ Learn about Uplift Community HS here: https://uplifths.cps.edu/ NOTE: AirGo has created the COVID Stimulus Redistribution Plan! Find some direct methods to redistribute your $1200 to those who are being denied the means needed to survive this crisis. See the resource list at http://airgoradio.com/covid Recorded 4/20/20 in Chicago Music from this week's episode: Park - Isaiah Rashad

Although data on hate crimes is limited and often underreported, we know that hate crimes have been on the rise in the United States since the election of Donald Trump, in particular hate that targets people of color, religious minorities and the LGBT community. Chicago is one of over two dozen cities that experienced a decade-high number of hate crimes in 2018. For this LIVE In The Thick show at DePaul University, Maria and Julio are joined by two guests who organize against this very hate, Isabella Gomez, actress from Netflix's One Day at a Time and LGBT activist, and Ugo Okere, former alderman candidate for the 40th Ward in Chicago and organizer with Chicago DSA.Special thanks to spoken word artist, Darius Parker with Kuumba Lynx for sharing his powerful words in this live show. ITT Staff Picks:How Chicago’s new democratic socialist city council members can change the city’s politics, from The Washington PostSeeking justice in Illinois after hate crimes, via Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil RightsExplaining the numbers behind the rise in reported hate crimes, from PolitiFactFor information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

VA Voices returns with a podcast exclusive of the Chicago founded performance group Kuumba Lynx. Meet six of its members that work together in nurturing fellow artists, empowering the youth and continue the movement. Join MeMe as she introduces you to the world of Kuumba Lynx.

At the intersection of art, culture, social justice, and community building, Kuumba Lynx produces The Chicago Hip Hop Theater Fest (CHHTF). The fest features nine different performing artists/companies presenting 12 different shows over five days. CHHTF is curated by Kuumba Lynx Co-Founders Jaquanda Villegas and Jacinda Bullie in an effort to reclaim public space, and cultivate a community building & performance space that reflects the communities we represent. The fest utilizes critical Hip Hop Theater to engage in a dialogue that aims to rewrite our narratives, reimagine the world more just, and connect people across communities. AirGo sits down with several of the presenters and participants to talk about their creative works, perspectives on the fest, and more! Hear each individual episode here: https://soundcloud.com/airgoradio/sets/airgo-x-chicago-hip-hop-theater-fest Recorded 5/26/18 in Chicago Music from this week's episode: Bust a Move - Young MC

Our guest is Chicago's own Poet, Femcee, and Social Justice Warrior, Jacinda Bullie--Co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of Kuumba Lynx. Kuumba Lynx is a powerful youth performing arts collective that has produced 6 winners of the heralded Louder Than A Bomb poetry slam. We talk with Jacinda about hip-hop, social justice, and the place of the creative arts & artist in popular culture. Follow the work of Kuumba Lynx here at http://www.kuumbalynx.com/ Guest- Jacinda Bullie Host/Producer- Tariq I. El-Amin Engineer- Ibrahim Baig Manuele Atzeni - La Nuit - http://bit.ly/2sUDn71 Image- courtesy of Jacinda Bullie

Jacinda Bullie and Jaquanda Villegas are the co-founders of Kuumba Lynx, a hip hop arts collective and community based in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. The squad leads all kinds of to-the-root liberation-based collective creation, including: the annual Hip Hop Theater Festival, Half-Pint Poetics, a perennial contending team at Louder than a Bomb, and much more. From the classroom, to the stage, to the streets, Kuumba Lynx is a family of fire fighting for liberation through creation. Recorded live 11/2/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago Music from this week's show: Unfuckwithable - Dr. Wylie

VS gets communal with Jacinda Bullie and Darius Parker of Kuumba Lynx, a youth-focused radical arts organization based in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. The squad talks transformative spaces, becoming an institution, writing joyful poetry, and much more. Four voices in effect!