Black us culture articles
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Biden to grads of traditionally black Morehouse College: Black men getting killed in street; US doesn't love black men enough
President Joe Biden spent part of his commencement address Sunday at traditionally black school Morehouse College addressing racial issues, specifically telling graduates that black men are getting killed in the streets of America — and that the country doesn't love black men as much as black men love the U.S.Biden told those in caps and gowns that they missed their high school graduations because of the COVID pandemic, National Public Radio reported, and then added that they "started college...
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In Black Twitter: A People's History, A Platform Changes the Culture and a Culture Changes a Platform
From the death of Osama bin Laden (as announced by Dwayne Johnson) to the rise of Donald Trump, from #TheDress to the Oscars slap, it’s impossible to imagine the last twenty or so years of global cultural history without Twitter, the microblogging platform that no one has ever referred to as “X.” And over the past two decades, no subsection of the app’s vast user base has produced more enduring memes, more culture-shifting social-justice hashtags, and more pure comedy than the cohort known as...
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Black Twitter: A People's History' On Hulu, A Docuseries About How Black Culture Used Twitter To Its Benefit
Prentice Penny directs the docuseries, based on a Wired cover story by Jason Parham.