Reparative Journalism: Healing Narratives for Social Justice

Constant cycles of interruption, degradation, and gentrification have, in many cases, eroded common narratives about communities of color, impacting the way native residents see their city and themselves. The story that one must leave to “be something” is a footnote to every dream. Many of us found our way to journalism through the understanding that stories like that are often some cocktail of experience and intentional erasure, through the understanding that the media we consume is often designed to curtail hope and hinder compassion, through a desire to repair and heal.