🌈The Black Voices report 🌈 calls on Coloradans to take action to create a more just media system. There are so many organizations & initiatives throughout the state already answering the call of the #BlackVoicesCO recommendations. https://t.co/ojevqwbfnU THREAD (1/x)

“Part of the process towards media reparations is investigating what infrastructure best responds to harm & creating cultures of care in newsrooms, which is work that impacts Black-owned press.” - Diamond Hardiman via @blackvoices @Phil_Lewis_ https://t.co/etLATF8vSF

What kind of media and technology system is worth fighting for? Let's dream it up on Oct. 4 at Chicago's Black Future Newsstand! Brought to you by @MediaJustice and @Media2070. RSVP via https://t.co/yLceDw6yeE #BlackMedia #ChicagoVibes

I was so glad to see this piece of journalism come across my screen. We have to be vigilant and critical everyyy time an entire group gets portrayed as "violent and criminal". It's an old play from a well-documented playbook.

How much investment does it take to create a media ecosystem in which Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-led and -serving newsrooms thrive, and save our multiracial democracy? READ: In its new report, the REJ Fund proposes four models. https://t.co/AjlpaeGklH

Come join our Black Media Initiative and Director @cthompsonmorton for the 2nd annual Black Media Futures Conference on March 14! The half-day, virtual event will explore a number of topics. Read more and register here! https://t.co/Y6fQLaP4xA

On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI

"When the Black Future Newsstand launches at AfroTech in Austin, Texas, attendees will be posed with the question: “How can the narratives and innovations of today’s Black community lead us toward a brighter future?” - via @thegrio #AFROTECH23 @afrotech https://t.co/fXxMSHCQPI

Diamond Hardiman shares insights with @axios on championing FULL ownership of Black stories for authentic representation. Don't miss #BlackFutureNewsstand with @CultureStrike's Mixed Media Mixer at #AfroTech23 tomorrow. #OwnYourNarrative #BlackMediaPower https://t.co/0VzxGvEWdn

"As Americans watch the war crimes being committed in the Middle East, it has led many to question the media’s coverage — and why there is a lack of diversity in voices and experiences from the conflict." @ClarissaMBrooks & #NikiFranco via @essence:

SHUT IT DOWN: Calling on (1) media workers’ unions, (2) non-union media formations, and (3) individual media workers to take up the following tactics to organize against media complicity in manufacturing consent for genocide.

Very excited to share this inspiring #NewsVoices project! Check out our first video in a series about a Journey Towards #ReparativeJournalism produced by my teammates @Diamond5280 and @awsaville

✨️ Free Press' #NewsVoices team has launched a new project to explore journalism’s history of harm and examine a brighter path forward using a reparations framework with support from @media2070. Full video: https://t.co/mBcBJcmHLh

How can journalism grapple with its history of harming Black communities & other communities of color? Read @Diamond5280 on the launch of @freepress' Reparative Journalism Project and related video: [Title: Journalism's Violent History Requires Repair]

"The $11.2 trillion black-white wealth gap is not the result of individual “bad” choices or the biased myths that some groups are more hardworking than others." ‼️ Stop what you're doing now and read the new report from @BridgespanGroup and @racialrepair: https://t.co/FSwgyJOelX

“The first step toward realizing racial justice is shifting our media system away from narratives of hate by cultivating narratives of repair.”@_collettewatson, @Diamond5280, and @aliciacbell of @BorealisPhil in @TheBWSTimes.

Outlets like @KCDefender, @CapitalBNews, @MLK50Memphis, @TheBWSTimes, @the_emancipator, @HammerandHope, @scalawagmag and more...pay homage to the Black press, which captured the fight for civil rights, equality, and everyday life. More from @Phil_Lewis_—

New from me: Readers are rightfully frustrated with what's being called “Black media.” The Black press, however, is distinctly different. https://t.co/hbbErXDFam

A Belated Apology for Notorious Crime Coverage: But Are Media Better Since Central Park Case? https://t.co/ZpqKe15mHZ @carrollbogert @ChicagoDefender @Media2070 @MGMeditor @MarshallProj #mediadiversity @DavidKreizer @LDeshan @freepress @Diamond5280 #NewYorkAmsterdamNews

This is amazing . When we talk about doing away with the "crime beat" and uplifting stories that actually bring about safety for community, this is the kind of reporting that comes to mind.