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Backlash Over White Hip-Hop Curator At National Museum Of African American History

ADW News Desk - October 1, 2018

Editor's Note: Timothy Anne Burnside is the head curator for a new hip-hop exhibit set to debut at the National Museum of African-American History...

Community

Funniest responses to #ThanksgivingClapBack

tshropshire7878 - November 28, 2015

Twitter went off on the hashtag #ThanksgivingClapBack is the stuffing the people can’t get enough of. #ThanksgivingClapBack are the responses that so many young people and...

ADW News

BET blasted by Black Twitter for not providing live coverage of Million Man March

tshropshire7878 - October 12, 2015

Many members of Black Twitter took great exception that Black Entertainment Television allegedly did not provide live coverage of the Million Man March's 20th anniversary. Actually,...

Business

Zero percent of black women employed at Twitter, report states

tshropshire7878 - September 19, 2015

With black people statistically being the most prolific users of social media of any demographic in the country, percentage-wise, you would think that the...

Digital Daily

#AskCiara hashtag gets singer bashed ruthlessly

tshropshire7878 - May 8, 2015

When will celebrities learn the obvious lesson of avoiding the "#Ask" hashtag like it were a coiled cobra? The list of casualty reads like...

National News

A Black academic explains Black Twitter, what it is and what it isn’t

Editor - April 23, 2015

A feature story in The Atlantic magazine tackles the growing influence of how Blacks use Twitter for communications, engagement and enacting change. Entitled “The Truth…

National News