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09/17/2025
“You have to force [elected officials] to respect you. If we show [the mayor and city council], they don’t have time on their hands, that’s when you start getting things that the community needs,” says Tormel Pittman, nephew of Deborah Terrell who was pepper sprayed, tased then shot dead by a New Brunswick police officer.
A Central Jersey community is in uproar. At a recent city council meeting residents demanded answers as the officer's identity in Terrell's shooting has yet to be revealed.
With a history of unresolved police killings plaguing a mayor who has been in office since the early 1990s, there is a call for change in both policy and leadership.
Read the full story by Matthew D. Gamble, today on Ark Republic
08/22/2025
Dame Crawford dives into another mini-podcast looking at the multiple political and economic eruptions that the Trump Administration has incited throughout the country.
Hitting predominantly Black cities, Latino communities and sanctuary municipalities, he is using his authority to sanction and punish those who are his biggest critiques, and places offering protection to some of the most vulnerable.
His latest target is Washington DC, a historically Black city with a Black female mayor. There he deployed multiple law enforcement agencies to conduct door-to-door pop ups in residential areas, mostly low income or Black, and has created a gestapo-like reality.
At the same time, the convicted felon covers incendiary documents like the Epstein files. Commentator Dame gives more insight on these latest rounds of use of governmental power to dismantle districts and populations, and the wear it causes on a press trying to follow.
In short, it is a bad as it looks, and many see a democracy eroding and the common person being swallowed.
07/16/2025
In a quick Q&A with New York University environmental professor Dr. Leo Douglas, Ark Republic asked about the ramifications of the LA fires.
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It rarely featured the complex lives and perspectives of the people I interviewed, or the issues we found critical in navigating the world.
Then, friends and colleagues expressed disappointment in the media landscape. For us, news turned into either, partisan politics or entertainment journalism. Repeatedly, I asked, “Where were ourstories? Where were we?” And often, after I read or watched the news, I finished unsatisfied.
One day, a mantra began to churn in my head: "We are the people, we deserve better." Then I said, we need a new declaration of independence, but from the media.This is the birth of Ark Republic. A member-funded media startup providing rich and robust narratives online, while engaging with local communities offline.
The Ark serves as an outlet speaking to and from the people, by giving them back the power. To me, that is revolutionary media.
At the Ark, we explore underreported or neglected issues and topics with a twist. Rather than solely relying on journalists, folk from different fields lend their lens.
So, we assembled a collective of newsmakers, narrators and curators to explore and examine the world using innovative storytelling techniques.
Our motto is: "Telling stories, changing the conversation," because we seek to move away from the dominant worldview, to one that is diverse and inclusive; and most importantly, productive.
Our hope is that by highlighting these stories, we generate a platform to direct conversations to resolution and understanding; and ultimately, push towards a movement of progress for the people.
