
<p>Free Spirit Media provides teens and young adults in communities of color on Chicago’s West and South sides with a comprehensive foundation in media literacy and hands-on media production experience. Free Spirit Media runs in-school arts education, after school, and summer digital media programs, and advanced creative workforce development programs.</p>


Free Spirit Media


<p>E3 Radio is an online radio station playing queer & independent music in high rotation. Our three pillars are to <strong>e</strong>ducate, <strong>e</strong>mpower, & <strong>e</strong>ntertain. E3 Radio is Queer Radio Done Right.</p>



<p>In 2009, Anna DeShawn founded E3 because we needed something different. We needed a media platform that uplifted the voices & the music for people who couldn’t get any airtime. This need still exists today and Anna is determined to ride media into its next era by utilizing online radio streams to play the music and tell the stories that need to be heard.</p>



<p>Our Team is so dope and we come together to create this beautiful thing called E3 Radio.</p>


E3 Radio


<h4>MISSION</h4>



<p>The Chicago Reader is a media company creating and curating political and cultural coverage by and for Chicagoans, including highlighting underrepresented communities and stories.</p>



<p>As a social enterprise, we reinvest all of our profits to achieve sustainability, grow our reach, and ensure the fulfillment of our mission.</p>



<h4>ABOUT US</h4>



<p>The Chicago Reader has been a fearless, innovative, and nationally respected media voice in Chicago for nearly 50 years. In print every other week and daily online, we are tastemakers, incisive critics, and agenda-setters. Our readers look to us for what’s new, what’s now, what’s next, and depend on us to hold local government accountable — not take sides.</p>



<p>Newly independent with new leadership, the Reader hit the ground running in 2019. Our new business structure is L3C, which means we are mission-driven, not profit-driven. We are community-supported, fifty percent African American owned, and we could not be more proud of our equitable approach to community coverage, staffing, and vendor supply. We’ve got fresh talent and fresh energy, and we’re thrilled to continue to deliver our unflagging, unfiltered take on Chicago.</p>



<h4>We are the Reader. We are Chicago. And we speak Chicago.</h4>


Chicago Reader


<p>The Crusader Newspaper Group consists of two weekly newspapers in Illinois and Indiana featuring news, commentary and life style reporting geared toward the African American community. The Chicago Crusader and Gary Crusader, published by minority media champion Dorothy R. Leavell, reach two unique markets with a shared $47 billion (annual) consumer buying power.</p>
