The case for media reparations
In my latest story for HuffPost, I wrote about media reparations and how the American media industry has harmed Black people.
In my latest story for HuffPost, I talked with members of the media advocacy organization Free Press about their campaign, Media 2070, and the importance of media reparations.
Media reparations examine how the American media industry has harmed Black people and seeks redress from those institutions by providing greater funding and directing resources into Black-led newsrooms and media companies. It may be the key to solving some of the issues facing the Black press.
“Media reparations is as much about the process that we take to get to repair as much as it is about the destination we’re talking about in 2070,” Diamond Hardiman, reparative journalism manager at Free Press, told me. “Part of that process is investigating what it looks like to have infrastructure that can respond to harm better or what it looks like to create cultures of care in newsrooms, which is part of the work that could and would impact Black-owned press.”
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