The term “movement journalism” was born at Project South @projectsouthatl, an Atlanta-based leadership development org that creates movement-building spaces, in 2017.

Press On emerged a year later to help advance movement journalism in the South—the birthplace of some of the most effective, strategic, and visionary organizing in the country. We continue to look to Project South for guidance on how movement storytellers can best center communities fighting for Black liberation and social and economic justice. Their senior narrative strategist, Desiree Evans (she/her), reminds us that our journalism is inextricably linked to systems of power and oppression; therefore, we must challenge these systems so we don’t uphold and reproduce them. [Image descriptions in comments.]