Register for Bearing Witness

Dr. Allissa Richardson, author of Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones and the New Protest #Journalism" (Oxford University Press, 2020), reveals how the perfect storm of smartphones, social media, and social justice empowered Black activists to create their own news outlets.

A Q & A and moderated discussion will follow the lecture, facilitated by Dr. Danielle Kilgo, John & Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity and Equality in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.  

Presented by the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota.