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This Earth Day, let’s re-focus our efforts on those most harmed by climate change
Monday is Earth Day, a commemoration first celebrated in 1970 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. But in the 54 years since, what started as a call to action to address environmental challenges at the time, Earth Day has grown into an international effort to spread awareness and call for large-scale change to address our…
Is being called ‘resilient’ a compliment?
For many, resilience is unequivocally a good thing. It means that we are able to overcome adversity on both an individual and community level. It’s what our cities strive to be in the wake of economic and environmental hardships. Being resilient means we’re strong, and strong is good. But this week, URL Media partner Immigrantly…
The Currency of Impact
URL Media, a decentralized, multi-platform network of high-performing Black and Brown media companies, is pioneering a revolutionary approach to valuing local news content across the media landscape. Our lens prioritizes community engagement over clicks, responsiveness over CTRs, and behavioral changes that uplift communities of color while honoring an advertiser’s need for scale. We seek a new…
Why we need BIPOC media especially for an eclipse
Every now and then, someone asks if media specifically serving and centering communities of color is only needed on stories “about us.” I presume they mean race, crime, poverty, maybe how we need to save democracy in November, or somesuch. The question naively seeks to separate our identities and lenses on the world, which, if…
Despite anti-Blackness, most Black American migrants prefer to live in Mexico
Tolu Familoni quit her six-figure tech job last summer in search of a more fulfilling life. This desire led her to move to Mexico City, a place she said has allowed her to be more in tune with the world around her. “The [U.S.] work culture is very much you go to work, and then…
Twice as Good: Haiti’s worst crisis yet, and the centuries of colonial legacy that got us here
Garry Pierre-Pierre, founder of The Haitian Times, joins Sara and Mitra to discuss the ongoing violence in Haiti and the roots of today’s chaos. They discuss how gangs have taken over the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince and the foreign power that bankrupted the country in its early days of independence. What can peace look like…
Attacks on trans people are escalating. Here’s what’s being done to combat the effects
There are more than 450 anti-LGBTQ+ bills working their way through state legislatures throughout the U.S. — many of which specifically target the transgender community — according to the ACLU.
One of those bills would require Florida driver’s licenses and other state-issued IDs to reflect a person’s sex assigned at birth rather than their gender…
Immigrant communities unite to save their school district’s Somali and Hmong language programs
Minneapolis Public Schools was forced to reverse course after pushback from Somali and Hmong parents and teachers, some of whom said they would leave the district if it moved forward with proposed cuts to its Somali and Hmong heritage language programs due to budget constraints, URL Media partner Sahan Journal reported last week. “In less…
Haiti’s prime minister resigns, new presidential council established
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned this week after days of speculation and pressure both at home and abroad as gangs took control of the island nation. “The police are outgunned, they’re outmanned. Their operations usually end in failure because the gangs have infiltrated the police force and so they are sharing intelligence with the…
Twice as Good: Ramadan, Gaza and what now. An interview with the founder of the always-viral Muslim.co
How are Muslims around the world experiencing the holy month of fasting amidst the war on Gaza? Sara and Mitra are joined by Ameer Al-Khatahtbeh, the founder and editor in chief of Muslim. The brand is a thriving digital space – with an audience of six million on Instagram and 2.4 million on TikTok. Ameer…
The one glaring omission in Netflix’s otherwise perfect “One Day”
Warning: Spoilers ahead. Credit: Matthew Towers/Netflix Emma Morley is supposed to be white. She’s white in the book. She’s white in the movie. But in Netflix’s serialized remake of “One Day,” Emma Morley is South Asian, the product of a Hindu mother and a Catholic father, as she explains. And so she and Dexter Mayhew…
Twice as Good: A podcast on Bob Marley, Black Liberation, and the film “One Love”
In episode three of the Twice as Good podcast, Sara and Mitra dive into the legacy of Bob Marley and the recently released film One Love. They’re joined by special guest Lloyd Cummings. Lloyd is a DJ and radio host who interviewed Bob Marley in the 1970s, and has deep insight into the life and…
As legacy media outlets continue to layoff journalists of color, BIPOC-run news outlets work to fill the gaps
Late last month, the Los Angeles Times laid off more than 100 of some of the most talented journalists in the nation — many of them were journalists of color. Following the layoffs, Tina Vásquez, editor-at-large of URL Media partner Prism, was left wondering how the American public at large can be expected to value…
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