LOS ANGELES -- Twitter has officially become X.com. But the legacy of the social community known as Black Twitter will never be forgotten, thanks to the Onyx Collective's three-part documentary series ...

Near the end of 2009, during the twilight months of a decade that saw the first Black man elected to the US presidency, Ashley Weatherspoon was chasing virality on a young app called Twitter. As the ...

Kahle, Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive. Member, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Internet Hall of Fame As Twitter has entered the ...

The three-part Onyx Collective show chronicles an online revolution from playful memes to politics and beyond. By Angie Han Television Critic When “A People’s History of Black Twitter” was published ...

Although messages posted on platforms such as Twitter initially seemed both ephemeral and insubstantial, they now have the power to drive news cycles, incite real-world rebellion and carry the first ...

Sarah J. Jackson, coauthor of #Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice: When we first got on Twitter, we weren’t worried about people pretending to be Black. We took people for their ...