Important, Not Important

It’s always worth revisiting the inarguable fact that our country was designed to be inequitable.And while much progress has been made over time, the powers that be continued to imagine and design new ways of marginalizing, at best, Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous people throughout our society and economy.But who will tell their story? And who should?Local news has all but disappeared. Meanwhile, the communities most marginalized and least covered by mainstream publishers continue to struggle.It’s important we help them tell their stories, not only so we are – very simply – more aware and educated about lived experiences different from our own, but so we can understand the specific mechanics behind the systems oppressing them, where their organizing has been successful, and where it hasn’t, and why.And finally, how best to help.We need new models of local and regional and even national news, where the news and stories are more accessible, more a product of relationships inside those communities, and more