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Jorge Mikell is a true veteran of the Chicago Renaissance. He just released Soliloquy, his debut full-length album, which is available literally everywhere. He is also deep in the Chicago urban agriculture game, facilitating all types of programs through his role at the Experimental Station to connect Chicagoans with affordable, delicious, fresh food.

Recorded live 6/29/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Downtown Dance (Intermission) - @jorgemikell

art (prod. by @SevSeever) - @jorgemikell

Good Words to Live By - @jorgemikell

Terrence Thompson is a filmmaker and Chicago native who's been documenting, shaping, and retelling stories throughout the city. His most recent film, "Drive Slow," just premiered through the Chicago Track program, an initiative of Free Spirit Media and DCASE. It also stars one of your favorite podcast cohosts (it's Damon).

Recorded live 6/22/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

It's Just Different - THEMpeople

Rachel Leider understands momentum. She's a central organizer for the Chicago chapter of IfNotNow, a national community of young American Jews committed to erasing American Jewish support for the Israeli occupation. She stops by the show to talk movement-building, Jewishness, and more.

Recorded live 6/8/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Bird On A Wire (Instrumental) - Harry Fraud

This week, we're doing something a little different–an AirGo doubleheader featuring two one-on-one interviews. Daniel's back in New York for the week talking with an old friend, while Damon holds down the on-air slot. Enjoy all of the conversation!

Back in Chicago, Damon sits down with Ayinde Cartman. Ayinde is a poet, organizer, and caretaker, who actually was featured with a live performance all the way back on AIrGo Episode 11. They chop it up one-on-one, live on WHPK.

Recorded live 6/1/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Locked Up - Garaz

NOTE: This week, we're doing something a little different–an AirGo doubleheader featuring two one-on-one interviews. Daniel's back in New York for the week talking with an old friend, while Damon holds down the on-air slot. Enjoy all of the conversation!

Daniel sits down with Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a rapper and old friend back in New York. The son of acclaimed filmmaker Mira Nair and postcolonial radical scholar Mahmood Mamdani, he is one of Daniel's oldest friends. The two talk family, Uganda, social media, and growth.

Recorded 5/31/17 in New York City

Music from this week's episode:

Kanda (Chap Chap) - Yung Cardamom & Hab

No Fruits at Night - @zohrankwame

greenSLLIME may have been traveling around the world for the past couple years as Mick Jenkins' DJ, but his style stays lowkey, homemade, hilarious, and fly. In addition to spinning for Mick, he's the host of SLLIME's Broke Ass Low Budget Show, a brilliantly, bluntedly surrealist talk show that has featured Joseph Chilliams, Sharkula, Dally Auston, Qari, Smino, and AirGo alums Jean Deaux and theMIND. He also has more than his fair share of bars for you.

Recorded live 5/25/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Roy - @JBlanked

Accidental Racist - LL Cool J & Brad Paisley

M.O.P. - Get the Fuck Outta Here

LaSaia Wade is the forceful, brilliant voice at the front of the movement for trans liberation in the city of Chicago. She's the director of Brave Space Alliance, a "grassroots funded initiative created by trans people of color, for trans people of color, to generate opportunities to engage in healing, community building and the creating of kinship." She's also a member of the Chicago's Trans Liberation Collective, and owns Mystical Bee Hive, a South Side-based beekeeping company.

Recorded live 5/18/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Demskreets.Fects - @Knxwledge

Living in Confusion - Phyllis Hyman

AJ Christian is coming for your television with an eye to the future. He is the founder of Open TV, a Chicago-based platform for intersectional television that has been the home for web series Brown Girls (written by AirGo alum Fati Asghar), Brujos (created by AirGo alumn Ricardo Gamboa), and many more programs reimagining the form and distribution of television in the digital age. He's a professor at Northwestern's School of Communication.

Recorded live 5/11/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Destination - @anitek

Kaina's twitter bio says it best–she works hard and she loves her city. She's a wonderful singer who has stepped onto larger and larger stages over the past year with her musical collaborators The Burns Twins, including festival Mamby on the Beach this summer. They recently put out an EP together, entitled sweet asl. She's also one of the associates holding down Chicago footwear brand Bucketfeet's Wicker Park location.

Recorded live 4/27/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

The Circuit - @thejujuexchange

Honey - Kaina x @burnstwins

Thaddeus Tukes is a master on the vibes and community journalist in the making. Featured across Chicago's music scene, including on The Social Experiment's Surf, Thaddeus is a gigging jazz musician, producer, and rapper. He also is in a masters program studying new media innovation and entrepreneurship at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, where he was a central figure in the campus' music and social justice community as an undergrad.

Recorded live 4/20/17 at WHPK 88.5FM in Chicago

Music from this week's show:

Feel My Vibes - @ThaddeusTukes

Bag's Groove - @ThaddeusTukes

Pass the Vibes - @Nicosegal