by Sara Cederberg | Mar 23, 2026 | Blog, Diverse and Accountable Media, Featured, Media Diversity
A lot of people are complaining about FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. We’re doing something about it. Earlier this year, we wrote about why this Nexstar/TEGNA merger is illegal and why it matters. We filed a formal petition to deny the merger with Free Press, Public...
by Sara Cederberg | Mar 10, 2026 | Blog, Featured, Parker Lecture, Parker Lectures
Mark your calendars for the 44th Annual Parker Lecture and Awards Luncheon on Thursday, September 10, 2026, at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C.! New this year: we’re celebrating at lunchtime. We see parallels to the moment we find...
by Sara Cederberg | Feb 17, 2026 | Blog, Press Release
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., civil rights leader, two-time presidential candidate, and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, died on February 17, 2026. He was 84. Rev. Jackson was a longtime ally of UCC Media Justice and delivered the 30th Annual Everett C. Parker...
by Sara Cederberg | Dec 23, 2025 | Blog, Communications Justice for Incarcerated Persons, Featured
On October 28, the FCC voted 2-1 to reverse the fair rate caps for prison phone and video calls that Congress mandated through the Martha Wright-Reed Just and Reasonable Communications Act. The decision will cost families hundreds of millions of dollars more each year...
by Sara Cederberg | Dec 22, 2025 | Blog, Featured, Online Accountability, Open and Affordable Communications
UCC Media Justice is deeply committed to ensuring that technological systems are tools for increasing justice, fairness, accountability and equity. We have long worked alongside our civil rights allies to protest new technologies used to exclude or used unfairly. ...
