Anshantia “Tia” Oso is a specialist in using narrative, messaging, arts and culture to catalyze change. As the senior director for Media 2070, she leads the work to build Black narrative power and advance media reparations as a necessary project for collective liberation. Tia has organized for over 12 years leading successful campaigns to mobilize thousands of advocates on issues ranging from migrant rights to racial justice to public arts policy. Her work is rooted in the legacies of Black organizing and ancestral resistance and inspired by Afrofuturist visions.
Expert Analysis
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The stories we create can speak life into futures abundant with resistance, care, love and beauty.
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Reparations isn’t just money owed — it’s the absolute restructuring of our very society to end centuries of oppression.
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At a Sept. 26 event, ethnic media leaders discussed the misinformation tactics used to undermine electoral trust among Latinos, and discussed ways to fight this misinformation.
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Media 2070’s powerful exhibit will showcase Black-owned magazines, art and newspapers alongside coverage of Chicago’s political movements of the ’70s and ’80s.
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For the installation’s creators, bringing the art piece to life in Chicago is as historic as the works themselves.
