Real talk on racism: Lessons from USC faculty on the frontlines

Join the University Club to discuss Dr. Richardson’s new book: Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism.

 

Join us for this important virtual member event, featuring Allissa V. Richardson, assistant professor of journalism at USC Annenberg in conversation with Jody David Armour, Roy P. Crocker professor of law at the USC Gould School of Law. They will discuss the book as it relates to current events and then open up to a Q&A.

Zoom Information will be provided upon registration.

More about the book:

Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century’s most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of U.S. cities — using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force, which claimed the lives of African American men, women, and children at disproportionate rates.

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