Founder of the non-profit, LA-based Racial Solidarity Project, author Phil Allen, Jr. talks about his most recent book “The Prophetic Lens: The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier”. In it, he analyzes how the use of video cameras and social media are affecting racial justice and uncovering violence in the U. S. He encourages people to become involved as “with-standers” instead of “by-standers”.

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