Can Changing The Narrative Change Society?? When a paper of record makes unsubstantiated claims, other media outlets see them and spin them out in a subversive game of telephone. Is this how we really want the first draft of history to be written? We believe that changing problematic narratives is critical to advancing equity and dismantling the belief in a hierarchy of human value. Narratives have the power to create, shape and amplify the way we view people in our community.