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 of our one-day stop from local news station WGN9, which featured our very own Narrative and Communications Director, Eteng Ettah, in both the article and video coverage. Read the full article and video here!
“The Black Futures Newsstand is an art installation, but most importantly, an invitation for folks to dream and imagine a media system that is a lot different from our own. So a media system where the stories of Black people are affirmed, are uplifted. A media system where we have ownership and control of the ways we are shown throughout media.”
- Eteng Ettah, MediaJustice Narrative and Communications Director
Black Future Newsstand is a traveling exhibition co-presented with partners Media 2070 and Black River Life.
