Black Twitter provides platform to raise race-oriented issues

World Today

One term heard often in the social media world is Black Twitter. It refers to the use of Twitter as a platform to raise race-oriented issues, like the recent death in a Texas jail of Sandra Bland.

It’s not limited to Twitter or to the United States. Minorities around the world say social media has given them a new, powerful voice.

CCTV’s Hendrik Sybrandy has insight from the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Lynn Cooper on Black Twitter
What is the future of Black Twitter and media sites with similar purposes? CCTV’s Mike Walter spoke to Lynn Cooper, a digital strategist.