Screening of Media 2070’s "Black in the Newsroom” and Panel Discussion

"Black in the Newsroom” is a 15-minute documentary film that explores the story of Elizabeth Montgomery, a talented journalist who lands her dream job in a major U.S. newsroom—but ends up fighting a deep-rooted system of harm.

The event begins with a reception at 5:30, screening at 6:00,  followed by a post-screening panel discussion with Philadelphia-based African American journalists and scholars. 

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trailer & more information

Media 2070 is a growing consortium of media-makers and activists collectively dreaming reparative policies, interventions and futures. In 2020, the consortium published a research essay detailing the history of U.S. media participation in anti-Black racism and harm. This work is an effort to radically transform who has the capital to tell their own stories by 2070. It is liberation work within a lineage of civil-rights activism, racial-justice organizing and calls for reparations. This work makes visible the ways in which the media have taken part in and supported state violence and harm against Black people. It seeks to highlight how the media can serve as a lever for racial justice — and underscore the repair and reconciliation necessary to build strong, free, democratic communities. To achieve full freedom and democracy, it’s critical to change entrenched media narratives about Black people. Media 2070  is an attempt at that change — an attempt at creating a world that’s never existed.

* Masks are required at this event when not eating.

Panelists

Moderated by MIC Co-Director Sarah J. Jackson. Featuring Yvonne Latty – Temple University professor of practice, Ernest Owens – Philadelphia Magazine editor-at-large, and Elizabeth Wellington – Philadelphia Inquirer columnist.