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As long as harm goes unrepaired, we will continue to see
uprisings and revolution for Black liberation. Black voices
will be heard, one way or another.
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1. “The 1619 Project,” The New York Times Magazine, Aug. 14, 2019: https://www.nytimes.com/
interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html; Brett Milano, “Twitter and the Birth of
the 1619 Project,” The Harvard-Gazette, Dec 5, 2019: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/12/
the-1619-project-started-with-a-tweet-says-nikole-hannah-jones/; Renee C. Wurth, Marcelius L. Braxton
Black media-makers are doing incredible things with little
to no resources despite the fact that their ancestors’ labor
was stolen to build systems of oppression that include the
dominant media system. We need media reparations to
right this wrong — and to restore the fruits of that stolen
labor to where they belong.
and C. Lee Cohen,, “Racism and COVID-19 Threaten Our Health — We Can’t Fight Them as Separate
Battles,” The Guardian, June 29, 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/29/racismcoronavirus-covid-19-black-brown-america “The New York Times Won 3 Pulitzers. Read the Winning
Work,” The New York Times, May 4, 2020: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/business/media/newyork-times-pulitzer-prizes.html
2. Ashia Ajani, “How Monica Roberts Became One of America’s Most Respected Black Trans Journalists,”
Them., Feb. 29, 2020: https://www.them.us/story/monica-roberts-transgriot-profile; “25th Anniversary of
Tyra Hunter’s Death,” TransGriot, Aug. 17, 2020: https://transgriot.blogspot.com/
3. Tanya A. Christian, “Transgender Activist Raquel Willis Appointed Executive Editor at Out Magazine,”
Essence, Dec. 10, 2018: https://www.essence.com/news/transgender-activist-raquel-willis-appointed-
It’s time to end the myth of Black inferiority.
executive-editor-out-magazine/
4. Raquel Willis, “Introducing the Out100 Trans Obituaries Project,” Out Magazine, Nov. 20, 2019: https://
www.out.com/print/2019/11/20/trans-obituaries-project; Bio of Raquel Willis, Out Magazine, accessed on
Sept. 20, 2020: http://www.raquelwillis.com/bio; Karen Ocamb, “Raquel Willis Makes Out History as First
Trans Executive Editor,” Los Angeles Blade, Dec. 10, 2018: https://www.losangelesblade.com/2018/12/10/
raquel-willis-makes-out-history-as-first-trans-executive-editor/
5. “Whose Spectrum Is It Anyway? Historical Study of Market Entry Barriers, Discrimination and Changes
in Broadcast and Wireless Licensing, 1950 to Present,” Ivy Planning Group LLC, prepared for the Office
of General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission, December 2000, https://transition.fcc.gov/
opportunity/meb_study/historical_study.pdf
6. Julie Drizen, “Why Is Public Media So White?” Current, June 24, 2020: https://current.org/2020/06/whyis-public-media-so-white/
7. “Can You Hear Me Now? The Past and Future of Black Media,” Institute for Nonprofit News video, June
28, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLwG35JWgRY; see Sara Lomax-Reese’s interview starting
at 22:57
8. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Beacon Press, 2010
(original version published in 1967), pp.3–4
9. “The Crisis in Black-Owned Media — and How to Save It,” Borealis Philanthropy, July 28, 2020: https://
borealisphilanthropy.org/rejstoryletter_july/; “Democratic Leaders of Color Urge Emergency Funding for
Diverse Local Media Outlets During COVID-19 Crisis,” Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional
Black Caucus, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and Congressional Native American Caucus,
April 22, 2020: https://chc.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/democratic-leaders-of-color-urgeemergency-funding-for-diverse-local; Deborah Douglas, “Meet the New Black Press,” NiemanReports, July
14, 2020: https://niemanreports.org/articles/meet-the-new-black-press/
10. Lauren Harris, “As Local News Crumbles, Should the Federal Government Intervene?” Columbia
Journalism Review, July 8, 1010: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/as-local-news-crumbles-shouldthe-federal-government-intervene.php
11. Reparations Now Toolkit, Movement for Black Lives, accessed on Sept. 23, 2020: https://m4bl.org/
wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Reparations-Now-Toolkit-FINAL.pdf
12. Ibid. The commission’s reparations recommendations appear on the seventh and eighth pages
of the report’s PDF even though this is not reflected in the page numbering used. John DeSantis,
“Wilmington, N.C., Revisits a Bloody 1898 Day and Reflects,” The New York Times, June 4, 2006: https://
www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/us/04wilmington.html
13. “Black Manifesto,” the Black Economic Development Conference, the Archives of the Episcopal
Church, April 4, 1969: https://episcopalarchives.org/church-awakens/exhibits/show/specialgc/item/202;
“Jim Forman Delivers Black Manifesto at Riverside Church,” Digital SNCC Gateway, May 1969: https://
snccdigital.org/events/jim-forman-delivers-black-manifesto-at-riverside-church/
14. “NAARC Rolls Out Preliminary 10 Point Reparations Plan,” National African American Reparations
Commission, April 16, 2015: https://ibw21.org/initiative-posts/naarc-posts/naarc-rolls-out-preliminary10-point-reparations-plan/
15. “Preliminary Reparations Program: A Document for Review, Revision and Adoption as a Platform to
Guide the Struggle for Reparations for People of African Descent in the U.S.,” National African American
Reparations Commission, Preliminary Reparations Program, https://ibw21.org/docs/naarc/NAARC_
Preliminary_Reparations_Program.pdf;
16. “Political Power,” Movement for Black Lives policy platform, accessed on Aug. 30, 2020: https://m4bl.
org/policy-platforms/political-power/
17. Ibid; “A Vision for Black Lives: Policy Demands for Black Power, Freedom, & Justice,” Movement for
Black Lives, accessed on Sept. 23, 2020: https://m4bl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Full-Access-ToTechnology-Policy-Brief.pdf
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