On a sunny Thursday afternoon, HoopsHIGH, FSM News, Industry Pathways, The Real Chi, as well as staff and friends, gathered to celebrate FSM summer at NLCP/Collins Campus.
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RECAP: Chicago Community Trust President and CEO, Helene Gale, and COO, Andrea Sanchez, joined us at The Nichols Tower in Homan Square to have a conversation with local leaders about the North Lawndale community.
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Free Spirit Media is so humbled and grateful to be a part of the MacArthur Foundation Jack Fuller Initiative. Jack Fuller, former Editor and Publisher of The Chicago Tribune and MacArthur Trustee, was a firm believer that good journalism and civic engagement are inextricably linked.
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PODCAST: This week Free Spirit Media was asked to speak on the Teaching in the Arts Podcast!
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PHOTOS: Slate House Productions, 720 Film Productions, and Free Spirit Media hosted the premiere screening of Chosen Foe Life at Facets Cinémathèque on Sunday, December 3rd at 7pm.
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Free Spirit Media transforms media and society by providing opportunities for emerging creators, primarily from communities of color, to produce and distribute original content and to pursue artistic, personal and professional aspirations.
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The Urban Communication Foundation awarded Jeff McCarter and Free Spirit Media the Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award for high quality urban media reporting
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Free Spirit Media thanks Bank of America for renewing its support of our Pathways Portfolio. Bank of America's recent $12,000 grant to Free Spirit Media will help us enhance Real Chi Youth, Flash Forward, The Chicago Track and Free Spirit PRO over the next year.
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WGN News has recognized Jeff McCarter, FSM’s Founder and Executive Director, as Chicago’s Very Own.
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Free Spirit Media was honored to receive the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for Public Service Announcement at the 2010 NATAS Chicago / Midwest Emmy Awards held at the Park West on November 6, 2010
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The winter of 2006 has been a special time for both FSM and me personally. On February 20, my wife delivered a baby boy – Roland Henry McCarter. The Free Spirit Media family is growing as well.
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