Allissa talks Gen Z protest on The Nation

I appeared on Jon Wiener’s Start Making Sense podcast for The Nation this month. Jon and I were on a panel earlier this summer, discussing the evolution of protest in LA. He is the co-author of the amazing book, Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties. His work is teaching me a lot about the origin stories of some of history’s most iconic activists, such as Malcolm X and Angela Davis. In this podcast, Jon and I talked about activists from the new school, which are featured in my book, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest Journalism. Have a listen.

Cell-phone videos of police killing Black people have had such an immense political impact over the last couple of years. Allissa Richardson comments on the new protest journalism, which is based largely on Twitter. Her new book is "Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism."