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Media 2070 is a project of Free Press.
Friend —
The Media 2070 project — founded and led by Free Press’ Black staff caucus — has been deepening our efforts to document the history of racism in the media and dream up a future where justice is real.
We addressed the first part of that goal — exploring the history of racism in the media — when we released our 100-page essay, Media 2070: An Invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations, late last year. Ever since then, we have focused the learnings from this report and 150% of our energy into organizing for real change.
The past few months have been particularly exciting for our team, and we wanted to give you an update on just a few of the things we’ve been up to in the fight for abundant Black media power:
* We have taken strong steps toward realizing an antiracist media system in Philadelphia alongside grassroots Philadelphians and our partners in the Shift the Narrative project.
* We’re collectively working to “hold newsrooms accountable, and tell their own truth and stories that promote community-based solutions that envision public safety beyond the cycles of abusive policing, punitive sentencing, and criminalized reentry.”
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* Alicia Bell, director of the Media 2070 project, wrote an op-ed for NBCU’s Equity Lab that makes the case for media reparations. From ads for enslaved people to alerts about lynchings, the press has long profited off — and contributed to — Black suffering. Reparations are one way to create a more just industry.
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* Alicia also appeared on the Mission Partners podcast to speak about anti-Blackness in the media and Media 2070’s work to hold federal policymakers and newsrooms accountable for harms inflicted on generations of Black people.
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* We have continued our campaign to demand that the FCC conduct a full investigation into how its policy choices and actions have harmed Black people and other communities of color through history. And we’re creating a plan to take this work even further — so stay tuned.
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Friend, your support of Free Press is what fuels our work. If you can, please consider making a donation today in support of Media 2070 and all of the essential work Free Press does to fight injustice in the media.
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Thank you for fighting alongside us.
In solidarity,
Collette and the rest of the Media 2070 team
media2070.org
