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ABC7 LA. Black Witnessing: Moment or movement?
BBC. Black Lives Matter: Can viral videos stop police brutality?
CBC. Black Lives Matter gone global.
Center for Creative Photography. Micro talks/Macro ideas: Photography in the Age of 2020.
Columbia Journalism Review. Allissa Richardson on protests, police violence & journalism.
Columbia Journalism Review. Talking about the challenges faced by Black journalists.
FOX. Culture conversations.
The Guardian. “It’s telling that we’re OK with showing Black people dying.”
IJ NET. Mental health and journalism, Part 4: A conversation with Dr. Allissa Richardson
KTLA/ABC. ‘Black witnessing’ and protest journalism with author and USC professor Dr. Allissa V. Richardson
MIT Technology Review. How to turn filming the police into the end of police brutality.
MSNBC. America in crisis.
NBC. Here’s what it means to be a smartphone witness.
NBC. Protesters call for economic boycott.
Nieman Lab. Allissa Richardson thinks it’s time to shatter a few myths about citizen journalism.
Nieman Lab. Cellphone videos of black people dying should be viewed with as much gravity as lynching photographs.
Nieman Reports. Meet the new Black Press.
NPR/KJZZ. 'Bearing Witness While Black': Police violence videos part of a history of civil rights journalism.
NPR/WDET. The case against sharing videos of Black people being brutalized.
The Nation. Black cellphone videos and protest journalism: Allissa Richardson.
The Root. The Good, the bad and the traumatic: Reevaluating the role of sharing Black Death on social media.
Wall Street Journal. They Used Smartphone Cameras to Record Police Brutality—and Change History.
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ABC7 LA. From Protest to progress.
Agence France-Press. Memory of Rodney King riots looms over LA protests.
Bustle. Instagram’s positive effects on mental health, explained by experts.
CBS. Morning Edition: A Black Lives Matter Update.
CNN. The election scenario that should frighten everyone—especially Black America.
Columbia Journalism Review. The first responders.
Dow Jones News Fund. The power of Black witnessing in the digital age.
EdSurge. #BlackStudentsMatter: Why digital activism is a voice for Black students.
Engadget. Social media’s recent embrace of BlackLivesMatter was a long time coming.
Fast Company. There is nowhere to hide from trauma when you’re a Black person on the internet.
Fast Company. Doomscrolling can break your brain; it can also be a force for good.
Foreign Policy. Defunding the police might leave Americans more surveilled and less secure.
Governing. Smartphone journalists accelerate push for social justice.
Governing. When the disenfranchised use counter-narratives for justice.
Los Angeles Times. Some who stormed the Capitol insist, ‘What I did was journalism.’
Los Angeles Times. Voices from the protests: ‘People of all races out risking their lives to march’.
Mashable. How to be an effective ally online, at protests, and moving forward.
NBC. Racism is rampant on Omegle. Teens are working to hold racist trolls accountable.
NBC. From the renegade to Black Lives Matter: How Black creators are changing TikTok culture
NBC. Twitter memeified justice for Breonna Taylor. But can a joke make change?
NBC. Protesters use digital activism to amplify voices of marginalized groups during fight for justice.
Newsweek. Why people are refusing to share the Kenosha police shooting video.
New York Times. The human toll of bearing witness.
NPR/KCRW. How video evidence can work for and against African Americans facing police violence.
NPR/KPCC. Take Two: Bearing Witness.
NPR/KQED. 10 Years Later: Oscar Grant, Black Lives Matter and Police Accountability.
Popular Science. Resharing videos of violence against Black people can spark more trauma.
Teen Vogue. Social media transformed teens’ ability to build activist movements online.
Vox. Questions to ask yourself before sharing images of police brutality.
The Washington Post. The debate around Breonna Taylor memes: Do they bring attention to the cause or trivialize her death?