From Harlem to Los Angeles, Black Future Newsstand has ignited important conversations around radical Black media and futures.
Now we’re headed to Houston to center the contributions of Afro-Texans in the creation of reparative storytelling.
What's this all about?
Black Future Newsstand, created by Media 2070, is an art installation overflowing with visions of the abundant future Black communities deserve.
What does a media that loves Black people look, feel and sound like in a future where reparations are real? Black Future Newsstand invites you to step inside and imagine it.
Photography by Bethanie Hines
Project Themes
Black Future Newsstand is one expression of a future media-system that Centers Blackness; that loves and cares for Black people, as the antidote to a long history of anti-Black media harm and brought about through media reparations. More on these themes—
media reparations
The process of acknowledging and repairing media’s systemic anti-Black harms
media harm
The long history of anti-Blackness in the media, from the earliest colonial newspapers’ profiting from ads for the sale of enslaved African people to the underpayment and mistreatment of Black journalists, to Big Tech’s algorithmic fueling of anti-Black disinformation for profit, and beyond
media care
The antidote to a history of anti-Black media harm
The centering of Black truths and wellbeing as the beginning of a process of media repair
The centering of care for the needs of Black journalists and communities
centering Blackness
The protection, witnessing, and honoring of the experiences, perspectives, and precious lives of Black folx
The creation of cultures and systems that repair the harms of anti-Blackness, support all Black people's wellness and thriving, and seed true collective liberation
Photography by Bethanie Hines
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Black Future Newsstand is a project of the The Media 2070 Initiative. We are a growing consortium of media-makers and activists collectively dreaming up reparative policies, interventions and futures. We campaign for media reparations so that Black people have the capital and power to own and control our own narratives from ideation to distribution. Join us in co-dreaming a media system that cares for Black communities. Read our groundbreaking essay An Invitation to Dream Up Media Reparations and get involved.