Prentice Penny directs the docuseries, based on a Wired cover story by Jason Parham.
This was one of many cultural moments in Black history included in the series.
Lyunovny’s actions were also the subject of a Change.org petition stating that DJ Vlad was attempting to silence a Black woman and called upon the public to defend Jerkins, academic freedom, and free speech, and to stand against racial discrimination.
Twitter may no longer be Twitter, but the presence of Black Twitter is still being felt. If you doubt that, just hop over to X (the platform formally known as Twitter) and search for the recent hip-hop beef involving Drake and Kendrick Lamar. That drama is just the type of thing that Black Twitter has sunk its teeth into with memes and pithy quotes. But there is also a history of serious cultural commentary that has spotlighted inequality and injustice, like the tragic deaths of teens Michael...
Hanna Phifer A new Hulu docuseries about Black Twitter wants to be a tribute piece to Black millennial intellectual and creative output. But what it becomes is something else entirely.
They say "Twitter isn't real life," but Black Twitter proved otherwise. For years, that phrase has been a way to ignore the real-world impact of social media conversations, especially when they spark radically new ideas. But that's clearly not true when you look at Black Twitter, an unofficial community made up of the site's black users, which inspired culturally significant movements with hashtags like #BlackLivesMatter and #OscarsSoWhite. Hulu's new documentary, "Black Lives Matter: A People's...
Black people are the architects of American culture. The hip verbiage many
Source: Hulu / hulu A new documentary series on Hulu highlights the impact of Black Twitter on popular culture through the eyes of some of its most notable users. On Thursday (May 9), the highly anticipated documentary series Black Twitter: A People’s History premiered on Hulu. The series is an in-depth look at the community of Black users and their seismic impact on what is now X, formerly Twitter before its acquisition by tech billionaire Elon Musk from founders Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone. The...
VIBE lists facts about the 'Black Twitter: A People's History' docuseries now streaming on Hulu.
Director Prentice Penny drops by "GMA3" to talk about "Black Twitter: A
When Hulu announced that it would be releasing a docuseries about Black Twitter, the streamer got an immediate earful from Black Twitter. Users complained of appropriation, of big media big-footing, of The Man swooping in to claim a piece of a sacred subculture. As one person posted on the platform, “The Black Twitter response to the Black Twitter doc is so very #BlackTwitter.” The makers of “Black Twitter: A People’s History,” the three-part series that premiered at the South by Southwest...
A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful communityHow to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag per se. Yet when cops kill, Kendrick Lamar drops or Harlem shakes, we know Black Twitter when we see it.In the almost 20 years that Twitter (or X...