‘A community deserves options’: Why these Black journalists launched their own publication

For example, the coverage of the ongoing fight over how race is taught in schools. “It took a really, really, really long time in the evolution of the ‘critical race theory’ conversation for mainstream news organizations to say, ‘Oh, what does a Black family think about this?’” said editorial director Simone Sebastian, formerly an editor at The Washington Post. “It will be our job at Capital B to ask that question from the very beginning.”