Media Reparations by https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80 What could media reparations look like for you or your community? en-us 2021-09-29 20:29:20 UTC 2025-10-29 05:02:36 UTC hello@padlet.com Reparations would look like being able to build generational wealth. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779350462 2021-09-29 20:59:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779350462 https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779351109 Reparations would look like diversity in the news room. ]]> 2021-09-29 20:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779351109 Marginalized people would not be objects in stories anymore, only subjects. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779351114 2021-09-29 20:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779351114 Having people who look like me tell the stories of my community. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779351300 2021-09-29 20:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779351300 redistribution of power in storytelling https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779351517 2021-09-29 20:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779351517 A surplus of resources that would provide equitable services. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779352064 2021-09-29 21:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779352064 Telling the story from everyones perspective and not just one https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779352315 2021-09-29 21:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779352315 Intentional news that celebrates my community. I am tired of my community only portrayed when something bad happens. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779352559 2021-09-29 21:00:31 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779352559 Publications, governmental agencies, certain groups of people and institutions of power acknowledging the role they had in the destruction of certain communities and using their resources to help re-build them. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779352913 2021-09-29 21:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779352913 https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779354068 Reparations could be no longer having white people as hired writers writing stories of activists and communities of color, but rather having activists and communities of color write them themselves as hired staff. No more profiting off of our traumas. ]]> 2021-09-29 21:01:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779354068 Reparations would be allowing and giving POC the space to obtain many roles and titles instead of constantly placing them in a box. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779354140 2021-09-29 21:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779354140 Diversity to include diversity in the board rooms and positions of power. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779354528 2021-09-29 21:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779354528 Storytelling that challenges societal norms/stereotypes. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779354558 2021-09-29 21:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779354558 Black people get to be fully human. Not inferior or superhuman. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779354721 2021-09-29 21:01:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779354721 acknowledgement of bias in the newsroom on a structural level https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779355009 2021-09-29 21:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779355009 dhardiman2 https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779355216 Reparations would look like public centers to connect Black communities to one another that have coffee and cookies and lounges and is filled with Toni Morrison and Assata books. ]]> 2021-09-29 21:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779355216 Reparations would look like Black people being able to take up whatever space they want, without having to endure casual racism. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779356442 2021-09-29 21:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779356442 https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779356556 More support for writers of color in non-profit publications who are going unpaid for the work they're pursuing in writing about their traumas for white led orgs. ]]> 2021-09-29 21:03:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779356556 Redistribution of wealth that the big media organizations hoard. It would be great if they give some of that wealth to small community run organizations. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779357212 2021-09-29 21:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779357212 Leaders who are people of color who are from a range of non-elite backgrounds. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779357430 2021-09-29 21:03:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779357430 Reparations would take place at the early educational level (junior hs/hs) and integrate classes that teach youth the history of US media and how it affects our ideologies today. These classes would acknowledge the history of harm within media and how to look at the news critically in order to avoid mistakes of the past AND in order to begin repairing and evolving from those mistakes. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779357499 2021-09-29 21:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779357499 Hiring reporters who are not from elite schools. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779357795 2021-09-29 21:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779357795 Block by block and city to city stories told by and for communities. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779357998 2021-09-29 21:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779357998 Reparations looks like more BIPOC executives who get to green light projects. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779358167 2021-09-29 21:04:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779358167 dhardiman2 https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779359057 Reparations would look like centers with free equipment and training for Black youth to learn about and create journalism, in their own way. Whether is be song, comic books, oral storytelling. ]]> 2021-09-29 21:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779359057 Journalism schools hiring more people of color - it starts at the bottom. Those who teach journalism shape how journalists tell the story. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779359166 2021-09-29 21:04:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779359166 Reparations would look like the dismantling of orgs that have historically profited off of Black death and the redistribution of their money back into communities dhardiman2 https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779360768 2021-09-29 21:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779360768 https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779360775 Indigenous peoples have been using storytelling to keep us alive and present in society after generations of white folks trying to erase us. I see my community as one of the pioneers of the industry, and as such, we need more power within it. ]]> 2021-09-29 21:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779360775 A shift in leadership roles and ownership of news institutions to Black, Indigenous and Latinx communities. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779360778 2021-09-29 21:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779360778 https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779360896 hiring more BIPOC storytellers with different backgrounds, not just the one that fits their mold.]]> 2021-09-29 21:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779360896 A new media profit model - this current reliance on advertising enforces media stereotypes. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779361472 2021-09-29 21:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779361472 Reparations would be newsrooms (specifically leadership positions) that accurately represent the US population. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779362571 2021-09-29 21:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779362571 Stories about solutions, not just problems. https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779364497 2021-09-29 21:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dhardiman2/h6ilhhjptbgtkb80/wish/1779364497