An exclusive featurette for Hulu’s Black Twitter: A People’s History docuseries puts a specific highlight on the article that inspired the project. The three-part docuseries premieres Thursday on Hulu. Based on Jason Parham’s WIRED cover story “A People’s History of Black Twitter,” it follows “the rise, movements, voices and memes that made Black Twitter an influential and dominant force in nearly every aspect of American political and cultural life.” Subjects featured in the doc include: TJ Adeshola (former head of Global Content Partnerships, Twitter) W. Kamau Bell (comedian; director, We Need to Talk About Cosby ) Dr. André Brock (communications professor; author, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures ) Rembert Browne (journalist; former director of Product and Community, Twitter) Dr. Meredith Clark (journalism professor; creator, Archiving Black Twitter ) Kid Fury (TV writer and host, The Read ) Roxane Gay (author; cultural critic, The New York...
