 A traveling newsstand that documents, publishes and distributes the stories of black immigrants and first generation black Americans. Organize a series of story circles where we invite black identifying immigrants to come and share their stories. We typically open the stories with a prompt either around their migration route or a ritual that they share or some of their experience of resilience. We publish by creating a series of zines from those story circles that we transcribe and edit in collaboration with the participants and we distribute them by putting the newsstand out in the streets. I'm a child of immigrants. I feel as though I'm just a continuation of the story. I feel like just by being black period, whether I'm black American or black immigrant, I'm part of a continuing story that binds me to people from across the world with a similar experience. I met Lausanne through a friend of mine, Al, who holds the barging, who I'm also on the organizing committee with. I met her through a story circle that she was holding at the Caribbean house in Brooklyn. Today we did an activation at Restoration Plaza and we started by having the newsstand and having scenes available to all the folks that were passivators or came into the activity and we launched three new zines. We also had food throughout the day, we had drums, music and throughout this we wanted to make sure that we were not only talking about the newsstand itself but also highlighting the different campaigns that Bajie has been working on as an organization. Projects like We The News does is like it gives us anecdotal evidence to certain trains that we're seeing. We're getting everything from a grassroots perspective. We're getting everything straight from the first hand account from the people. And as a culmination of that, we had a reading and with Julissa Herrera, which was one of the participants and she shared her story and we had a panel discussion around the importance of archiving and our own histories. I believe that we all walk around holding stories inside and we all seek that opportunity. It's very hard, particularly in the city, busy daily activities. When that opportunity opens up, such as in the story circle moment where you have that queue that says, here's your comfort zone, here's that area, we will not have judgment upon you for sharing what you need to share. I think when that opportunity comes, it somehow flows out. To me being an immigrant means there are a lot of struggles and responsibilities that go along with that, knowing that you're constantly representing the place that you're from, the culture that you're from and existing a place that isn't home. We The News really became a way for me to understand my own language around race because a lot of the language that exists today I was finding was really binary and was really from a black American perspective and I couldn't relate and necessarily I definitely didn't feel that it was my own. So We The News allowed me, this project really allowed me to create a language within communities and finding different people that felt the same way as I do and identify the same way. We The News has gone to become a life of its own that I can no longer support on my own and I'm trying to figure out how I can keep growing.