Thank you to @freepress.bsky.social and @josephtorr.bsky.social for helping spread the word about The Revival Lab and the work of Brandi Collins-Dexter. We're working to build something she'd be proud of.

"We know it's possible to create Black media and tech outlets that support the community's well-being, since such outlets have existed for 200 years." -
@josephtorr.bsky.social

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"Brandi knew that consolidation resulted in the loss of Black-owned media outlets that had provided public spaces for the nourishment of Black political thought." -
@josephtorr.bsky.social

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Free Press reflects on the work of Brandi Collins-Dexter.

@revivallab.bsky.social is Brandi's brainchild: A research and storytelling initiative demanding information justice, dignity, and opportunity for all.

@josephtorr.bsky.social writes on her legacy: www.therevivallab.org/media-power-...

Thank you @revivallab.bsky.social (Revival Lab) for the honor in allowing me to write this column about my friend, the late Brandi Collins-Dexter, and the impact she had on me and on the struggle for media justice.

”For decades, media consolidation has been the silent war waged on Black communities. When people try that hard to steal your voice, we all ought to be worried.”

This and so much of Brandi Collins-Dexter's brilliance, lifted up in this essay by @josephtorr.bsky.social for @revivallab.bsky.social

"Now is the time to go back out into the world and resume rewriting the script."

Our 2025 Parker Award recipient Brandi Collins-Dexter spent her life fighting for media that serves all of us.

@revivallab.bsky.social — her final project — will carry that work forward.

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"As the decisions of powerful media and tech owners continue to shape our political and cultural understanding of whose lives are deemed worthy and whose are not, I’m reminded of how Brandi repeatedly discussed how media and online misinformation harm Black people." - @josephtorr.bsky.social

The latest edition of The Revival Letter is out! In it, the great @josephtorr.bsky.social shares his thoughts on media, power, and the enduring legacy of his friend Brandi Collins-Dexter www.therevivallab.org/media-power-...

"We hold in us the freedom to be time travelers, shapeshifters, and border-hoppers, building on the dreams of those who came before us." - Brandi Collins-Dexter (@brandicd.bsky.social)

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The second issue of The Revival Letter features the words of our founder, the late @brandicd.bsky.social, who started The Revival Lab with the hope of building a better world than the one we live in now.

www.therevivallab.org/brandis-dream/

Our newsletter, The Revival Letter, will regularly feature writers and scholars on tech, media, and information justice. Sign up for it today: www.therevivallab.org#/portal

Like Brandi's work, The Revival Lab will be grounded in community and rooted in reality. Our analysis will illuminate what power looks like in the hands of those who want to isolate us, and what it can look like in our hands.

The revival begins today, on what would have been Brandi's 45th birthday.
www.therevivallab.org/the-revival-...

For Brandi. The Revival Lab was @brandicd.bsky.social's dream and it launches now.

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