Community-Forward is the Future
On a mild April evening, journalists and community members alike swarmed to Black Box Theater. Parking was limited and the event, graciously hosted by Farooq Al-Said in 1Hood Media’s space, was standing room only. The room was fiery with the energy of people pissed off at Block Communications for deciding to close the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette after losing a Supreme Court case against their striking workers.
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Every version of America worth having was built by people who lost things and kept going anyway. Who had their identity ripped away and spent a strange summer figuring out who they were without it. Who made choices that didn’t make sense on paper because they believed in something they couldn’t fully name yet. That stubbornness, that refusal to stop showing up, that’s the through line. That’s what doesn’t break.
We made this issue because we think remembering matters; not as escape, not as nostalgia for its own sake, but as fuel.
You cannot fight for something you’ve stopped believing in, and you cannot believe in something you’ve let yourself forget.
