Media
Overview
Public and underground media have always been important channels for people working to create racial equity. With new media and social media, there are even more ways now for people to communicate, organize, disrupt and challenge dominant thinking. There are a number of groups doing leading edge work to seize these opportunities. One, The Praxis Project, sums up the challenges and opportunities this way (please read full discussion in Fair Game: A Strategy Guide for Racial Justice Communications in the Obama Era) “Communications is just one tool in a plentiful toolbox we can use to advance racial justice—and we’ll need them all. Transforming society, which is what is will take to create a fundamentally just and inclusive world, takes more than clever sound bites…governance structures privilege certain voices and political trends in the public conversation…So, we have to starting framing smart and organizing smart…Unless we take on these larger, undergirding [political] structures that shape power dynamics and the socialization of people at scale, our wins will remain limited and fleeting.”
Key sites
- The Center for Media Justice
- Progressive Communicators Network
- The Opportunity Agenda
- Protect the Internet
Practice
- Echoing Justice Communication Strategies for Community Organizing in the 21st Century-Stories of Success and Innovation
- Raise Every Voice: Strategic Communications & Progressive Change Making
- Net Neutrality and What You Can Do To Ensure It
- Immigration Issues and the Election Webinar
- We are the Color of Freedom: Reflections on Resisting Mass Surveillance in the Trump Era
- 5G, Smart Cities and Communities of Color
- Next System Media: An Urgent Necessity
- Strengthening and Expanding Movement Journalism in the U.S. South
Resources
- Racism and the Media
- Racist History of American News Media
- Media Examples
- The State of Media Coverage of Immigration 2012-2013
- Out of Struggle: Strengthening and Expanding movement journalism in the U.S. South
- A Dangerous Distortion of our Families: Representations of Families, By Race, in News and Opinion Me
