Black Twitter Remains Unbothered in Elon Musk’s X
What this moment recalls is a pre-Ferguson version of Black Twitter, before the digital body was called upon to mobilize beginning in 2012. The repeated killings of Black youth—Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, and others—instilled an impassioned responsibility in users to activate their platforms in a new way. If free-flowing comedy, borderless conversation, everyday … Read more