Randomly Selected

For this episode, we sit down with New York native and Hip Hop Legend, Large Professor! We were able to have a Meet & Greet event live at The Silver Room that followed up with this recorded interview! We talked about everything from his beginnings as a DJ, his involvements with Nas‘ career and so much more!

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For this episode, we sit down with Chicago creative, Brittney Carter. We talk about everything from her love for her family and how they‘ve played a role in her life all the way to her current status as an elite Chicago musical artist!

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For this episode, we sit down with Chicago Historian, Shermann ”Dilla” Thomas. We talk about everything from how his passion for Chicago history created his current career space all the way to the light his children see him in being ”The Chicago Neighborhood Historian”.

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For this episode, we sit with Rashayla Marie Brown to discuss everything from her “nomadic” style of living and how that accelerates her goal achievement all the way to the current climate of our country and maneuvering through it.

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For this episode of Randomly Selected we welcome in Duane E Powell!

We speak to Duane about everything from his start as a music buyer at Dr Wax and how that transitioned into a career as a full-time DJ, his creation of Soundrotation Radio which has now become part of The Silver Room Digital umbrella and so much more!

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For this episode of Randomly Selected we welcome in Carlos Rolón, a.k.a. Dzine!

We speak to Carlos about everything from growing up on the North Side of Chicago, how things like gentrification have shifted the dynamics of the city and why art can‘t be found in certain areas of the city.

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For this special episode of Randomly Selected we welcome in Jahmal Cole!  Jahmal opens up the 2021 Campaign Season by joining our host Mario Smith to talk about everything from his start with My Block, My Hood, My City & his days as a baller at Wayne St all the way through the present day running for Congress!

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In this episode, we sit down with Sports Radio, Podcast Host, and Media Personality Laurence Holmes!

In addition to Laurence Holmes‘ insightful perspective, a signature feature of his Sport Radio Show is the in-studio interview with athletes, coaches and journalists, allowing for deeper discussion on their backgrounds and the day’s most important topics. Herb Lawrence is the executive producer of the show.

The ”House of L” podcast is an intimate look at media in all forms and how it works. Here, Laurence Holmes takes you behind the curtain with your favorite media personalities, and if you like a good origin story, this one is for you.

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For this episode, we sit down with Ciera McKissick, to talk about everything from her being born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, her move to Chicago and all the amazing ideas she‘s been able to turn into her reality!

Ciera McKissick is the founder of AMFM, a creative arts brand based in Chicago. She created AMFM, originally a web magazine, as an independent study project during her senior year at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she studied Journalism and Mass Communications. Her work since then has evolved to support emerging and established artists by offering them a platform to showcase their work and passions on a larger scale through exhibitions, web content, and curated events.

As a curator and producer, she seeks to combine the arts to cultivate community, access, diversity, inclusivity, intergenerational interaction and a dynamic experience. Her work often involves collaboration through many art practices and organizations, seeking to stimulate community engagement with purpose, mission, or cause.

Projects for AMFM have been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, on Chicago’s Fox 32 and ABC 7, and published in the Chicago Reader (where AMFM was named “Best New Gallery”), Chicago Tribune, Chicago SunTimes, Southside Weekly, Afropunk, Millennial Magazine, and more.

For this episode of Randomly Selected, we sit down with Jacqueline Najuma Stewart to discuss everything from where her love for movies started all the way to the present day and the many hats she wears to continue fulfilling her life goals and achievements. 

Jacqueline Stewart is the Chief Artistic and Programming Officer at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, where she oversees the museum’s curatorial, education, public engagement, film programming and publications teams.  She is on the faculty of the Department of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, where she founded the South Side Home Movie Project.  She is the author of Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity, and co-editor of L.A. Rebellion:  Creating a New Black Cinema and the William Greaves:  Filmmaking as Mission.  She is the host of “Silent Sunday Nights” on Turner Classic Movies.