Episode 185: How Media and Technology Impact the Fight for Racial Justice
Media has always played a part in social justice movements. Cellphones, social media, and the internet give an immediacy and democratization to today’s media, for good and for bad. L. Joy brings Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster to discuss their book, Seen and Unseen, our greater connectivity because of technology, and how all of this new media is used to amplify the voices of the marginalized.
Homework:
Read: Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice x Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster https://amzn.to/3FNE7xh
Our Guests:
Marc Lamont Hill is an award-winning journalist as well as contributor on various television networks. He is the Steve Charles Chair in Media, Cities, and Solutions at Temple University. He is owner of Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee & Books in Philadelphia. Marc has authored or coauthored six books including New York Times bestseller Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond and We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest & Possibility. He lives in Pennsylvania.
Todd Brewster is a veteran journalist and historian who has worked as an editor for Time and Life and as a senior producer for ABC News. He is the coauthor, with Peter Jennings, of the #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Century, which spent nearly a year on the bestseller list, and the author of the acclaimed Lincoln’s Gamble. Brewster was the founding director of Center for Oral History at West Point and the executive producer of Into Harm’s Way, an award-winning documentary about the West Point Class of 1967. He has taught journalism at Temple University and Mount Holyoke College. A native of Indianapolis, Brewster was inducted into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame in 2000. He lives in Connecticut.
