On October 4th, we co-presented Black Future Newsstand, a custom-built art installation that reflects the fullness and wholeness of intersectional Black Chicago love, designed to immerse visitors in a future-media landscape where Chicago news, art, and technology honor our defiant past and invite an abundant future. Convening over 500 organizers, artists, and community members, this was the latest stop celebrating Black media and holding key discussions on a media system that uplifts Black communities. We gained media coverage from Block Club Chicago, which featured long-time MJ comrade and partner Brandi Collins-Dexter. Read the full article here!
“The exhibit, a collaboration between MediaJustice and the Media 2070 Project, imagines a world in which media respects and honors Blackness in a way that illustrates its full humanity while acknowledging past harms.”
- Brandi Collins-Dexter, Writer, Researcher at the Harvard Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, and long-time MediaJustice Organizer and Comrade
Black Future Newsstand is a traveling exhibition co-presented with partners Media 2070 and Black River Life.
