| By the start of the Trump era, Black Twitter had become not just a thriving subsection of the social platform; it was, as Jason Parham writes on Backchannel, "a fully realized world with its own codes and customs." In this third installment of our epic oral history of Black Twitter, "Getting Through," covering 2016 to the present, Parham turns to voices who revel in the humor and humanity, respite, and even renewal that Black Twitter supplied as the Trump presidency unfolded, the George Floyd murder unleashed a movement, and a pandemic shattered the globe. "These were spaces where people could witness a collective experience of joy and relaxation, since many of us were shut out of concerts," says one interviewee, André Brock, author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures. "My wife is still mad about our Janet Jackson tickets." The Editors | WIRED |
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