Yesterday (Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 8 PM) we (Nicolás Macri and Vania Ding) interviewed Terence Blanchard, a trumpeter and composer of Hollywood film scores and operas, on Film Society’s Big Green Screen radio show.
We had a great discussion about Terence Blanchard’s long career, the power of music and film to advance stories on the human condition, the balance as an artist between discussing trauma and protecting yourself from the inherent difficulties of such taxing work, the experience of minorities like Black Americans in music and film and in society as a whole, and the role of media to advance social progress and understanding.
On Saturday, November 7th, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. won the 2020 Presidential Election, making him the 46th President of the United States. Tune in below to WDCR News’ special report covering President-Elect Biden’s victory and hear a re-airing of an interview with former Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden from a November 2019 campaign visit to the Upper Valley. Reporting by Daniel Lam ’22.
On Tuesday, November 3rd WDCR News broadcast a special report to highlight the experiences of members of the Dartmouth community during the 2020 Presidential Election. Featured guests include Dartmouth President Philip J. Hanlon ’77, the Samson Occom Professor and Chair of the Program in Native American Studies Professor Bruce Duthu ’80, and the William Clinton Story Remsen 1943 Professor of Government and Chair of the Program in Quantitative Social Science Professor Michael Herron. Reporting by Daniel Lam ’22, Lexie Farnell ’24, Veronica Quidore ’22, Ella von Baeyer ’24, Maddie Grussing ’23, Ginger Link ’24, Sadre Campbell ’24, and Hayley Piper ’22.
You know ’em, you love ’em, and you’ve heard ’em from campus concerts to WebDCR to Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/moonunitfromcollege). Their newest song, “Buff Tenderly Queso,” is an artistic interpretation of the Hop’s Buffalo Tender Queso. This Artist Spotlight feature’s Dartmouth’s own Moon Unit (from College).
You can follow them on Instagram @moonunitofficial.
In this segment of Artist Spotlights, WebDCR’s Brandon Dormes interviewed Dartmouth’s BASEL, a musical duo consisting of Clay Foye, ’22, and Addison Wessel, ’22.
Also, be sure to tune into Addison’s WDCR show, O.C.T., Mondays 10:00 – 11:00 p.m. EST!
WebDCR had the opportunity to chat with one of Dartmouth’s premier music duos, Nextlife (consisting of Matt Haughey, ’21, and Henry Phipps, ’21), about their recent projects and the art of collaboration.
Matt Haughey and Lila McKenna’s single “Movie Love” is out now.
In January 1965, Malcolm X visited Dartmouth at the invitation of the Undergraduate Council to give a speech titled “The Black Revolution in America”. His speech, given to a packed Spaulding Auditorium, was not preserved, but the day after his speech, Malcolm gave an extended interview to WDCR.
The historians at Rauner Library graciously digitized the interview tape, and you can now listen to the interview here:
Courtesy of Dartmouth College Library
Malcolm X was assassinated roughly 3 weeks from his visit to Dartmouth, making this interview one of his last before his passing. You can read more about Malcolm X’s visit to campus here.
In the 80s, after years of student requests, Cutter Hall was renamed “El Hajj Malik El Shabazz Temple”, using the name Malcolm adopted after his pilgrimage in Mecca. Most students today know the building as “Shabazz”.
Note that the Malcolm X interview is long and covers many topics. We timestamped the various issues of the interview if you would like to learn about a specific topic:
Interview Timestamps:
PART I — US Foreign Policy
0:00 Split with Nation of Islam 4:35 Trip to Africa 7:19 American foreign policy, African independence 16:47 Cold War and the politics of aid
PART II — Domestic Issues, Racial Justice
20:07 Organization of Afro-American Unity 23:37 Racist senate committees 30:30 The Constitution 34:20 Methods of change, crime 45:20 Riots, inequality, community exploitation
