Allissa appeared in Dr. Henry Louis Gates’s newest docuseries, “Making Black America.”
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The Charlotta Bass Journalism & Justice Lab is a decades-long culmination of Allissa’s research.
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Allissa will join the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center to study Black media activism on TikTok.
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Allissa will present her latest research on the Black press at this year’s International Communication Association conference, in Paris.
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Allissa spoke about the importance of Africans' mobile journalism during the ongoing Russian invasion into Ukraine at Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.
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In this Black History Month panel, I discussed the power of community storytelling to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of the 1992 LA uprisings.
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In this commissioned report, I explore how a decade of intrepid Black mobile journalism changed the world.
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It’s a sweep! My book, “Bearing Witness While Black,” has won three national awards and one international prize!
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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has appointed me to serve as one of five members on its credentials committee.
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In this New York Times article, I explain where mobile witnessing should go now, after the historic Derek Chauvin trial verdict.
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My paper on Black women activists’ communication techniques has won the $10,000 grand prize from the University of Florida!
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Come hear me discuss the new VR docuseries that I co-executive produced with GRX Immersive Labs at Facebook/Oculus on Feb. 23.
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Smithsonian scholars picked their favorite 20 books of 2020. Bearing Witness While Black landed on the list!
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Bearing Witness While Black will join the Center for Creative Photography’s series: Micro Talks, Macro Ideas: Photography 20/20.
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I recently told Columbia Journalism Review that mobile journalists were 2020’s “first responders” of protest coverage.
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In the December issue of “The Atlantic,” I talked with Amber N. Ford about her poignant photography exhibit, “Mistaken Identity.”
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I interviewed the legendary rapper and intellectual Chuck D the day after the Presidential election, for USC’s Visions and Voices series.
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In a new essay, I argue that today’s ephemeral social media platforms make it difficult for us to archive journalism history.
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This week I gave a virtual lecture in Chennai, India, at the Asian College of Journalism.
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