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Home » Kevin Coval

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Posted inNews & Politics

A silence louder than words

by Taylor Moore July 21, 2021June 20, 2022

How allegations of sexual abuse exposed cracks in the foundation of Young Chicago Authors, Free Write Arts & Literacy, and the city’s spoken word community

CaSera Heining started DJing for Louder Than a Bomb in early 2014, partway through her first year at Columbia College. She became a full-time DJ in 2017.
Posted inMusic

CaSera Heining, producer at WGN Radio and DJ Ca$h Era

by Leor Galil February 4, 2021August 18, 2021

“For a couple months, I was just DJing for tips. Luckily the community that I have around me, they were pouring into me as much as I give out to them.”

CIMA Chicago Independent Media Allaince
Posted inPress releases

40+ Chicago Media Outlets Launch Joint Fundraiser

by Chicago Reader May 8, 2020January 31, 2023

43 independent Chicago media outlets have joined forces to raise funds in a monthlong campaign in May. The for-profit and nonprofit organizations represent a wide cross-section of authentic community media in the city and nearby suburbs. Give at savechicagomedia.org.

Posted inMusic

Building on the pillars of Blue Groove Lounge

by Leor Galil February 5, 2020August 18, 2021

An oral history of DJ Jesse de la Peña’s foundational Blue Groove Lounge hip-hop night, on the occasion of its belated 25th birthday parties

Posted inArts & Culture

Gentrification pains

by Taylor Moore September 24, 2019August 18, 2021

Everything Must Go pays tribute to the displaced working-class of Wicker Park.

Posted inMusic

Jamila Woods builds on legacies that shook the world

by Tiffany Walden May 1, 2019August 18, 2021

On the new Legacy! Legacy!, Chicago singer and poet Jamila Woods lovingly details how art can learn from the past as it shapes the future.

Posted inMusic

Brittney Carter discovers Chicago hip-hop—and vice versa

by Matt Harvey March 7, 2019August 18, 2021

Brittney Carter thought she was just writing poems. Her classmates at Young Chicago Authors heard a great rapper in the making—and the rest of the city’s scene is starting to agree.

Posted inArts & Culture

Louder Than a Bomb returns for its 19th season of slam poetry competitions

by Jack Helbig February 26, 2019August 18, 2021

Young poets describe its explosive effect on their lives.

Posted inMusic

Chicago rap crew Pivot Gang honor a fallen comrade

by Leor Galil November 21, 2018January 27, 2022

Pivot Gang cofounder John Walt is memorialized in Saba’s Care for Me—and by an arts nonprofit that bears his name, which holds its flagship concert fund-raiser this weekend.

Posted inBlogs

Jamila Woods and Kevin Coval collaborate with Vinyl for a Cause to benefit Young Chicago Authors

by Matt Harvey June 26, 2018August 18, 2021

Woods contributed a song inspired by a Coval poem about the blues going electric, and Coval enlisted Tasha for a wintertime answer to Woods’s “LSD.”

Posted inArts & Culture

The inchoate new MPAACT show Blood Mural misses what’s right in front of it

by Tony Adler April 25, 2018August 18, 2021

There’s plenty of drama in the story of Chicago’s street murals—but not here.

Posted inArts & Culture

Mahogany L. Browne describes the making of The BreakBeat Poets Volume 2: Black Girl Magic

by Jordannah Elizabeth March 13, 2018August 18, 2021

“Anything that doesn’t celebrate a black woman is only a distraction.”

Posted inBlogs

Mick Jenkins commands his own future on the brand-new EP Or More; the Frustration

by Leor Galil February 26, 2018August 18, 2021

Chicago rapper Mick Jenkins is ending his deal with Brooklyn indie label Cinematic, and he’s self-released two EPs that demonstrate where he’s going next.

Posted inBlogs

Joe Biden’s American Promise Tour, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week

by Ryan Smith December 11, 2017August 18, 2021

Andrew Bird at Fourth Presbyterian Church, and more goings-on about town the week of December 11-14.

Posted inBlogs

Pop-Up Magazine, Pug Party, and more things to do in Chicago this weekend

by Emily Wasielewski June 2, 2017August 18, 2021

A dog film festival, a comedic roast of Wonder Woman, and more events June 2-4

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