Media Highlights

KCRW-FM's 'Greater L.A.'
Why Black Angelenos have been making up more pot-related arrests
July 15, 2020

KCRW-FM's Greater L.A. featured research by the Crosstown project, a collaboration between the USC Annenberg and USC Viterbi, that found that after marijuana was legalized, Black Angelenos made up a larger percentage of arrests for cannabis-related charges.

Nieman Reports
Meet the new Black press
July 14, 2020

Nieman Reports interviewed Allissa Richardson about the importance of citizen journalists in documenting police and extrajudicial violence against the Black community.

KTTV-TV Los Angeles
Culture Conversations: Racial profiling, building generational wealth and documenting police brutality
July 11, 2020

Fox News Los Angeles affiliate KTTV-TV interviewed Allissa Richardson on the power of citizen journalism in the fight against police brutality.

The Ringer
Amid the Black Lives Matter movement, Hollywood examines its own history of racism
July 10, 2020

The Ringer cited research from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the rising percentage of characters from underrepresented groups in film.

StateTech Magazine
Q&A: USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative’s Powell on the battle ahead
July 7, 2020

StateTech Magazine interviewed Adam Clayton Powell III of the USC Election Cybersecurity Initiative about the threats to U.S. elections.

KCRW-FM's 'Greater L.A.'
ICE says foreign students must take in-person classes to remain in U.S.
July 7, 2020

KCRW-FM's Greater L.A. featured Gordon Stables on the school's plans to accommodate its international students. "It forces another set of challenges for students in a way that no one really anticipated," he said.

CALMatters
With California schools opening soon, kids lack needed tech to learn remotely
July 6, 2020

CALmatters cited research by Hernan Galperin on the number of Los Angeles households with school-age children that do not have a computer or broadband internet for online learning.

The New York Times
The music industry is wrestling with race. Here’s what it has promised.
July 1, 2020

The New York Times quoted Stacy Smith of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on plans to study the diversity of record labels, publishers and talent agencies.

Billboard
Universal Music, Annenberg Inclusion Initiative expand partnership to study racial inequality in music
June 26, 2020

Billboard quoted Carmen Lee in an article about how Universal Music Group and the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative are expanding their collaboration to study systemic racial inequality in the music business. The initiative was also covered in Variety.

Wired
Doomscrolling is slowly eroding your mental health
June 25, 2020

Wired quoted Allissa V. Richardson on how Black and non-Black people take different approaches to "doomscrolling" — scrolling through social media during tumultuous times.

Engadget
Social media’s recent embrace of #BlackLivesMatter was a long time coming
June 24, 2020

Engadget quoted Allissa Richardson about how earlier activists lay the groundwork for the current Black Lives Matter movement.

Quartz
Half of U.S. broadcast network dramas are about cops
June 24, 2020

Quartz cited a study from Color of Change and the Norman Lear Center on how American police shows tend to normalize injustice in the minds of viewers.

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