Media 2070 Launches Second Installment in Reparative Journalism Archive and Invites Outlets, Journalists and the Public to Recommit to Factual and Equitable Storytelling
i SAW THiNGS i iMAGiNED, the Second Installment of the Now-Digital Archive Will Center Around Future Black memory, community storytelling and reparative journalism in action.
Sept. 15th — Media 2070 announces the next release of its Reparative Journalism Archive, the second installment of their virtual archive project. The launch builds on the recent release of Media 2070’s Pledge to Care for Black Communities and Black Journalists, ahead of the Town Hall slated for 4 p.m. ET Oct. 15th.
“This archive is a living repository of reparative journalism in practice,” said Diamond Hardiman, Narrative and Creative Strategy Director for Media 2070. “It is a multidisciplinary database that chronicles and examines the intersections between media history, Black citizenship and identity, movement building and afrofuturist visioning.”
Various efforts present different access points for newsroom leaders, news practitioners and even the everyday public to engage with the values and ideals put forth by the media reparations movement: collective dreaming and imagination, real repair, and true reckoning with the media as-is.
The pledge asks newsrooms, philanthropy, policymakers, media workers and the broader public to reckon with the role of media in anti-Black harm and commit to reparative practices that shift power, resources and narrative control toward Black communities.
The archive’s inaugural collection, Riot to Repair: Community Archives on Media and Narrative Power, features community-centered storytelling rooted in the experiences of Los Angeles residents during the 2020 uprisings following the police killing of George Floyd. Through audio interviews, visual storytelling and community testimony, the collection uplifts stories of grief, solidarity, accountability, care and the reclamation of voice — offering a permanent virtual home for narratives too often distorted, erased or extracted by mainstream media.
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The archive launch deepens Media 2070’s call for outlets and journalists to take action through the media reparations pledge while demonstrating what this work will look like in practice. “This entry is an invitation to use all of our senses to feel media reparations,” said Hardiman. “A call for a world where our collective stories are stewarded from ideation through distribution by Black folks. It offers a hideaway to both dream and remember pathways towards communities of repair. It recalls memories of future victories that can stir our body towards action.”
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