In this panel discussion, Dr. Richardson will explain how African Americans’ mobile journalism reorganized the seemingly intractable “hierarchy of struggle” for Black social movements — placing it in a legitimized discursive space that has not existed since the Civil Rights Movement. This panel will take place at this year’s International Communication Association conference in Paris, France. Open to conference attendees only.

In this roundtable discussion, Dr. Richardson will share how people of African descent around the world are using smartphones to highlight systemic injustice — from the US to the UK to Ukraine. This panel will take place at this year’s International Communication Association conference in Paris, France. Open to conference attendees only.

In this roundtable discussion, Dr. Richardson will share her ideas about which theoretical frameworks can be reimagined to study global protest more inclusively. This panel will take place at this year’s International Communication Association conference in Paris, France. Open to conference attendees only.

Dr. Richardson will present her research on how the digital Black press created hubs of public interest journalism amid an online sea of racialized COVID myths in early 2020. Her work is featured in this year’s International Communication Association conference in Paris, France. Open to conference attendees only.

Dr. Richardson will present her research on how Instagram surpassed Twitter as a site for protest in 2020, during the global Black Lives Matter uprisings. Her work is featured in this year’s International Communication Association conference in Paris, France. Open to conference attendees only.

Dr. Richardson will present her research on how the digital Black press used social media to report on the racial reckoning of 2020. Her work is featured in this year’s International Communication Association conference in Paris, France. Open to conference attendees only.

Dr. Richardson will discuss how media coverage of race and Black social justice movements has evolved since the murder of Trayvon Martin a decade ago. Open to the public.

Dr. Richardson will discuss how Africans’ mobile journalism birthed the trending hashtag, #BlackinUkraine, and shone a light on systemic racism during the mass exodus from the war-torn region. Open to the public.

In this keynote lecture, Dr. Richardson will discuss how to create hubs of reflection and self-care, when students’ mobile journalism and activism hits close to home. Open to the public.

In this lively discussion, Dr. Richardson will be in conversation with Lora King (daughter of Rodney King) and Shinese Harlins-Kilgore (cousin of Latasha Harlins) to explore how community storytelling has empowered their families to retell the stories of their loved ones’ lives — 30 years after the 1992 LA uprisings. Open to the public.

Dr. Richardson will discuss how Black witnesses in the US and the UK created dynamic networks of political communication during the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings. Open to LSE faculty, staff and students.

Dr. Richardson will drop into Stanford University’s Digital Civil Society Lab to discuss future legal frontiers in protecting mobile witnessing. Come hear about the rising importance of citizen journalism videos in police brutality cases, and how new laws aimed at cop-watchers are threatening the genre — just as it is creating real change. Open to Stanford University Lab faculty & students.

Dr. Richardson will discuss how mobile journalism from Portland during the summer of 2020 ignited a national conversation about the First Amendment, protester rights, and police use of force. Open to UO faculty, staff and students.

At this year’s Mobile Me & You conference, Dr. Richardson will discuss how the last 30 years of witnessing police brutality culminated with this year’s first Pulitzer Prize for a mobile journalist. Open to conference registrants.

Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will accept the 2020 Frank Luther Mott Book Prize at this year’s AEJMC conference. Come hear her acceptance speech! She will talk about the journey to write Bearing Witness While Black; why we should expand the canon on media witnessing scholarship; and where Black press studies should go next. | Open to members of AEJMC.

In the wake of an unprecedented year of protests, this conversation explores how artists and scholars use photography to record demonstrations of dissent. Focusing on documentation of protests in Los Angeles since the 1960s, moderators Dr. Allissa Richardson and Alex Jones explore the practice of protest photography with local artists George Rodriguez and Ted Soqui, contextualizing contemporary photojournalism in a broader historical framework of documentary photography and drawing on protest imagery in the Getty Research Institute collections. | Open to the public.

Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will discuss how smartphone testimony from two brave Minnesotans, Diamond Reynolds and Darnella Frazier, galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement in 2016 and 2020, when they filmed the police killings of Philando Castile and George Floyd, respectively. Both Reynolds and Frazier were engaging in a centuries-old practice of Black witnessing, which has always harnessed the power of journalism to shine a light on deadly racism. Dr. Richardson will draw connections between 19th- and 20th-century African Americans newspapers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and today’s Black citizen journalists. | Open to the public.

Allissa will participate in the 2021 frank Extravaganza for a $10,000 research prize. Come see her talk about how Black feminists have evolved their communication practices since the Civil Rights Movement, which has increased their visibility and impact. | Open to the public.

Dr. Richardson will explain the mental health toll that bearing witness while Black takes on so many people. She will share tips for maintaining a healthy media “diet” while remaining plugged into social justice causes. | By invitation only.

At this year’s Data 4 Justice conference, Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will describe how video vanishes from social media platforms. She will explain how scholars can help lobby for more platform transparency as it pertains to policies on shadow banning and ephemeral video archives. | Open to the public.

Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will meet with students at Brandeis University to answer questions about her book, “Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism.” | Closed to the public.

Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will dialogue with the founders of Terror Management Theory (TMT) to discuss how the framework helps explain the activism of Black Lives Matter. | Open to the public.

Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will participate in Fortune magazine’s annual “Brainstorming Design” panel. She will discuss how the nation should go about redesigning American policing, and reimagining its reportage of race and social justice. | Open to the public.

Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will address the 2020-2021 Toppers Scholars at the University of Southern California. She will share how students can transform your passion for a social justice issue into a lifelong, academic research agenda. | Closed to the public.

Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will discuss how videos of fatal police encounters have traumatized the African American community. She will outline the top three mental health conditions that are on the rise amongst Black people, and how Anthem can help. | Closed to the public.

Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will share the stage at Facebook-Oculus to discuss her role in the groundbreaking virtual reality (VR) docuseries, In Protest: Grassroots Stories from the Frontlines. Oculus’ Build for Inclusion series highlights best practices for making the world of virtual reality (VR) a more equitable creative space. Dr. Richardson will discuss what it was like to co-executive produce a VR show amid a pandemic. She will also explain how developers can practice excellent self-care. | Open to the public.

Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will deliver the 2021 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture at Wesley Theological Seminary. Dr. King’s late wife, Coretta Scott King, and Wesley’s first Dean, Dr. L. Harold DeWolf inaugurated this series after King’s untimely death. Dr. Richardson will discuss the historic intersections of the Black Church and the Black Press, and explain how the relationship has evolved over the years. | Open to the public.

Author and journalism scholar Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will deliver this year’s Morgan Lecture as a virtual talk from Dickinson’s Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues. “Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the Fight to Preserve Our Democracy — One Video at a Time,” will take place Wednesday, Feb. 3, at 7 p.m. in a public YouTube livestream. | Open to the public.

Dr. Apryl A. Williams and Dr. Allissa V. Richardson will address the long-standing history of White vigilante-style surveillance of Black people in public spaces, exploring the role of White women in extending the power of the state to surveil and regulate the movement of Black people in public – tying in Karen actors with historical examples such as Emmett Till and others. They will discuss how memes and other digital artifacts contribute to collective action that responds to this surveillance. | Open to the public.

In this keynote address to the National Writers Union, Dr. Allissa V. Richardson explains why writers must document social justice movements meticulously, rather than look away in frustration and despair. | Closed to the public.