MBC’s Journalism projects examine who covers Black communities, where information gaps exist, and how local media reaches the state’s most diverse populations. Built for newsrooms and media partners alike, these tools help strengthen local reporting and ensure underserved communities aren’t left out of the story.
Users can explore community foundation’s territory, funding history, and type of support, whether a discretionary grant, DAF grant, or field-of-interest fund, giving a clearer picture of how philanthropic dollars are sustaining local media across the state.
Prepared for the James B. McClatchy Foundation, Valley Voices Rising maps the Central Valley’s media landscape alongside county-level civic engagement and community vitality data, helping funders and stakeholders identify where regional journalism investment can strengthen community voice and representation.
Built for the Inland Empire Journalism Innovation Hub + Fund launch, this map clusters local news outlets across the region by type, service area, and ethnicity.
This platform centralizes California’s racism-as-public-health-crisis declarations using screen capture technology, stabilizing an accountability tool for activists, policy-makers and communities.
Despite civil rights laws, informal discrimination and economic barriers restricted Black beachgoers’ access, as seen in cases like the Pacific Beach Club and Bruce’s Beach. Recent efforts, however, have led to the return of Bruce’s Beach to its rightful owners.
Moreno Valley is a vital yet overlooked chapter in the story of Black migration to the Inland Empire, and through oral histories from past and present residents, The Blackest City maps lives built through family, faith, work, and community, affirming a shared vision for a thriving, inclusive future.
Over the past decade, California has seen a growing Democratic trend in presidential elections, driven by an increasingly diverse population, including Black, Latino, and other voters of color, mobilizing around issues that matter most to their communities.
This dashboard visualizes California’s annual hate crime data from the Attorney General’s office, tracking prosecutions and convictions statewide — including cases like the racist graffiti incident at Hamilton Elementary School in Anza, Riverside County.
Police budgets have grown steadily even as crime has declined, often crowding out investment in education, housing, and mental health. Raising the question of how communities can pursue safety without relying on a system marked by violence and discrimination.
Designed and developed to visualize Los Angeles County’s news ecosystem, we identified gaps in information reach across the region’s socioeconomically and racially diverse communities.
This map reveals how access to grocery, convenience, and liquor stores is unequally stratified by income throughout San Bernardino City, shaped by broader factors like poverty, racist infrastructure, unaffordable housing, and limited transportation access.
This dashboard tracked the impact of COVID-19 on Black communities across the state — the only Black-focused tracking tool centralizing live data on infections, hospitalizations, deaths, and vaccinations.
An easy-to-use dashboard built for media outlets during COVID-19, identifying vaccination rates in densely populated Black and Latino areas of Riverside County to help target under-reached communities with critical vaccination information.
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