Mentions

The interactive project is part of a day-long activation that includes music, art and a panel discussion featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trina Reynolds-Tyler.

For the installation’s creators, bringing the art piece to life in Chicago is as historic as the works themselves.

During a Sept. 26 event, immigrant and media-accountability experts weighed in on how targeted hate and disinformation are proliferating on both social media and in mainstream media.

The Black Future Newsstand is filled with books, magazines and other content from Black creators, representing a future where reparations are real.

Free Press’ Nora Benavidez discusses the effort to push the media to report on rising authoritarianism and threats to democracy.

“It’s really cynical, actually: Mr. Free Speech going after anyone who’s criticized him,” said Free Press Co-CEO Jessica J. González.

Media advocates like Free Press Action slammed the closed-door deal.

“We are disappointed in this outcome and this process,” said Free Press Action Co-CEO Jessica J. Gonzàlez.

Net Neutrality proponents like Free Press disagree that broadband carriers will decrease investment as a result of the rules.

A coalition is urging the media to “place protection of democracy over their own bottom lines.”