Q&A: Media Reparations with Collette Watson

February 10, 2021

Gabe Schneider, Reynolds Institute

Last fall, Free Press’ Media 2070 project — which Watson is an architect of — released an essay documenting how U.S. media have distorted Black people’s stories.

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