We are alive all day from jackson for the mississippi book festival. You just heard from authors on the desegregation of schools in america. Some of the authors are still in the room. Having discussions with people that were in the audience listening. We could watch as the authors slowly make their way out of the room. In the next few minutes the next author discussion will begin. It will be a conversation on outlaws in american history. Here in jackson mississippi. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible backround conversations] the mississippi book festival now in its 50 year another year in jackson as abheres a look at whats happening outside the law merely books tent where attendees can purchase the book. [inaudible background conversations] while we wait for the next author discussion from mississippi to start, we want to show you a little bit of a program from last year with Rachel Devlin on the desegregation of American Public schools through the actions o
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The year journalism starts paying reparations
“Reparative journalism is explicit in its commitment to doing the work of racial justice, and by extension without apology social justice.”
This is not a prediction about 2021 as much as it is a call for what must come in the “after” we’ve all been waiting for some of us longer than others.
After 45. After the pandemic. After the uprisings.
Now that this consequential year has definitively denuded the unsustainability of American institutions as we know them, the work of reparations can begin. Specifically, the work of reparative journalism.
Reparative journalism1 is the term I use to describe a specific approach to newsmaking that centers structural vulnerability as its core value. It is the framework I envision for the news media to redeem itself by reconstructing our shared reality through radically inclusive editorial choices.