Did you know that 94% of British journalists are white?!
Red Pepper is an independent magazine and website of left politics and culture. We're fundraising to recruit a new section editor with first hand experience of the struggle for black liberation.
We need your help.
As a media project supporting movements for social and economic justice we feel it's an urgent priority to support black and minority activist writers to cover campaigns and creativity in areas such as:
- the Black Lives Matter movement
- black feminism
- detention centres
- borders
- police state
- cultural appropriation
- afrofuturism
- the impacts of climate change
- the sharp edge of austerity
All funds raised will allow us to support black and minority activist writers, particularly women, in the production of written, video or pictorial pieces.
Additional funds will allow us to provide media training for anybody who would like to get involved with limited experience.
Whatever you can spare, every donation will make a difference!
"It is remarkable that for all the column inches written about race that there is not a single print journalist with the specific responsibility of reporting and researching it. Funding one is not just a good idea in itself - it will raise the standards elsewhere" - Gary Younge
To find out more about why we're doing this read these four reasons to support the black journalism fund.
Red Pepper magazine is published once every two months. We’re a socialist publication drawing on feminist, green and libertarian politics. We seek to be a space for debate on the left, a resource for movements for social justice, and a home for open-minded anti-capitalists.
Red Pepper seeks to help build the kind of pluralistic, dynamic movements which can fundamentally challenge our economic system, with its entrenched injustice, structures of power and oppression, and tendency towards war and environmental destruction.
As a volunteer-led non-profit, the current editors volunteer their time for free. We are not yet in a position to pay all writers and editors but we are working towards that as a goal and donations can help us get there.
Thanks to the Black Dissidents and Gary Younge for advising on this project.
