On Wednesday, April 22nd, Activists Against Racism Movement (AARM) held our second event focused on building an ongoing, working relationship between the community and members of the media. This event was part of our campaign to work together with media representatives to counter perpetuation and reinforcement of individual and institutionalized racism by mass-media. We want the media to become a more positive force that can help produce solutions for outstanding socioeconomic, political, and cultural issues and problems within our local, regional and national communities.

Between 50 and 100 people attended the event, which featured small group discussions surrounding basic questions about racism — what racism is, how racism affects people and who is racist? This event was a follow up to a previous night organized by AARM on Februrary 25th.

The main focus of the night was to begin a conversation on racism — a conversation that AARM intends to keep going. AARM interviewed several people present, including both community members and media representatives, to get their perspectives on the night. We present those to you because we think it's critical that this discussion happens on a much larger scale.