Black Twitter's expected demise would make it harder to publicize police brutality and discuss racism
- Written by Deion Scott Hawkins, Assistant Professor of Argumentation & Advocacy, Emerson College
#blacktwitter helped mobilize social protests against police brutality across the country, like this one in New York City in July 2020. Ira L. Black/Corbis via Getty Images
Before the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile and Sandra Bland were propelled into the media spotlight, their names were Twitter #hashtags.
In 2020,...