The Latest Breaking News from Black Twitter

Director Prentice Penny on his new docuseries about the coming-of-age story of an influential online community

A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community

The culture-clash comedy does its job of providing a fun escape. Why is that so hard to buy?

Online spaces have a tendency to attract toxicity. Yet some pioneers are showing we can have a kinder internet

You would be forgiven for growing numb to the almost daily assault of headlines proclaiming the latest stunning development involving Elon Musk’s tenure as owner and manager of Twitter. The microblogging platform has seen a rise in hate speech and technical problems as media reports say up to 75% of…

From cartoon memes to cancel culture, hashtag activism and “new” languages, it’s undeniable that Black Twitter has shaped much of today’s internet culture.

Black Twitter’s expected demise would make it harder to discuss police brutality and racism

Before the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile and Sandra Bland were propelled into the media spotlight, their names were Twitter #hashtags.

Now that Elon Musk has bought the social media platform, some users fear a unique form of Black witnessing will be lost