Sorry I haven’t posted much this week, I’ve been under the weather. The good news is that I’m finally feeling better, just in time for the National Conference for Media Reform this weekend in Denver, Colorado.

I’ll be blogging about the plenaries and panels hosted by some of the coolest independent journalists and artists out there. Topics I’ll likely be tweeting and blogging about include the struggle for media equality, media diversity and internet freedom with all kinds of social justice issues mixed in between. The conference, which is hosted by Free Press, will be streamed live if anyone is interested in watching.

In a media industry dominated by corporate interests, maintaining independence is difficult, to say the least. The great thing about NCMR is it serves as a gathering space for media makers who have devoted their lives to uncovering and exposing corruption and the suffering it causes, and there doing it against the backdrop of a mainstream media apparatus that censors and ignores their work.

This is the whole idea behind Dispatches from the Underclass. I want this website to be a space where the stories ignored, censored and distorted by the establishment press come to light.

But building a media outlet from scratch isn’t easy for anyone, let alone a young female journalist of color who curses and rails against the powerful. Many of you have been generous enough to donate to Dispatches to support my work and I can’t thank you enough.

Right now, my posts are a bit sporadic because I have to work side gigs to make an adequate income. Basically, the more of you who donate and/or become subscribers to Dispatches, the more stories I can cover and the more this website can grow. I can’t do it without you.

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On a side note, I was on the Matt show recently talking about Kimani Gray, stop and frisk and police accountability (or lack thereof). You can listen here.