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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Yusra Farzan

INSANE: What will happen next for black twitter - The Real Truth

woman raises fist amid protest
The killing of Michael Brown in 2014 ‘cemented to Black people that if they wanted their story known, they would have to tweet it’, said Alissa Richardson. Photograph: Sebastiano Tomada/Getty Images

On Twitter – Black Twitter – Sydette Harry found people who resonated with her intersectional identities as a Black woman, a New Yorker, an immigrant and a member of the diaspora with family in England, Guyana and Trinidad.

But she also found other affinity groups.

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