Curator's Notes:

Narrative — the ability to tell a story or make a story and have it heard, shared, and become knowledge — is a powerful tool that the powerful use to oppress, dominate, and control. The independent grassroots magazines and newspapers in this collection represent an antithesis to that. In the tradition of the Black Press in particular and other radical or alternative press traditions globally, these publications confront the distortions of dominant narrative by articulating their own narratives and agendas, that may indeed be contested, for their communities.