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Onyx Collective debuted its upcoming Hulu docuseries, “Black Twitter: A Individuals’s Historical past,” at SXSW Competition over the weekend. The corporate additionally introduced a number of the Black Twitter contributors within the collection. Try a teaser trailer for the upcoming collection under.
The Prentice Penny-directed docuseries relies upon producer, Jason Parham’s WIRED article “A Individuals’s Historical past of Black Twitter.” The three-part docuseries charts the rise, the actions, the voices and the memes that made Black Twitter an influential and dominant social media pressure in almost each side of American political and cultural life.
Onyx partnered with Penny’s leisure firm A Penny For Your Ideas, Tradition Home Media and Wired Media to provide this thrilling new documentary collection that can take viewers on a experience by way of the eyes of cultural commentators and political figures all through the Black social-political motion.
Final Friday evening, “Black Twitter: A Individuals’s Historical past” hit the Austin streets at SXSW Competition to get actual commentary from the individuals who make up the platform previously generally known as, Twitter. The docuseries premiered on the competition Friday evening and commenced trending on the social media platform now generally known as, X. It’s secure to say followers are excited for its Spring launch.
Among the contributors followers can count on to see within the docuseries embody:
- TJ Adeshola (former head of World Content material Partnerships, Twitter)
- Kamau Bell (comic; director, “We Have to Speak About Cosby”)
- Dr. André Brock (communications professor; writer, “Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures”)
- Rembert Browne (journalist; former director of Product and Group, Twitter)
- Dr. Meredith Clark (journalism professor; creator, “Archiving Black Twitter”)
- Child Fury (TV author and host, “The Learn”)
- Roxane Homosexual (writer; cultural critic, The New York Instances)
- Jemele Hill (writer, journalist)
- Sam Jay (comic, author)
- Brad Jenkins (former affiliate director of the White Home Workplace of Public Engagement, 2011-2015)
- Brandon “Jinx” Jenkins (journalist, host, artistic director)
- Luvvie Ajayi Jones (New York Instances bestselling writer)
- Shamika Klassen (researcher, scholar, “Black Twitter Is Gold”)
- Van Lathan (cultural critic; host, “Greater Studying”)
- Jamilah Lemieux (cultural critic, author)
- Wesley Lowery (journalist; writer, “American Whitelash”)
- Ira Madison III (TV author; host, “Hold It!”)
- Judnick Mayard (TV author, producer)
- Jason Parham (senior author, WIRED)
- April Reign (artistic guide; creator, #OscarsSoWhite)
- God-is Rivera (former world director of Tradition and Group, X)
- Amanda Seales (comic, activist, host “Small Doses” podcast)
- Denver Sean (senior editor, LoveBScott.com)
- Baratunde Thurston (comic; host, “How To Citizen with Baratunde”)
- Ashley Weatherspoon (producer; author, DearYoungQueen.com)
- Raquel Willis (writer, activist, media strategist)
- J Wortham (journalist, The New York Instances Journal)
Produced by A Penny for Your Ideas, WIRED Studios and Tradition Home Media, “Black Twitter: A Individuals’s Historical past” is about to premiere all episodes on Thursday, Could 9, on Hulu.
Penny is directing the collection, marking the primary venture with Onyx Collective by way of his general deal underneath the banner of his firm, A Penny for Your Ideas.
Govt producers for the docuseries embody the next:
- Prentice Penny (A Penny For Your Ideas)
- Chris Pollack (A Penny For Your Ideas)
- Alex Soler (A Penny For Your Ideas)
- Sarah Amos (WIRED Studios)
- Helen Estabrook (WIRED Studios)
- Agnes Chu (WIRED Studios)
- Andrew Whitney (WIRED Studios)
- Raeshem Nijhon (Tradition Home Media)
- Carri Twigg (Tradition Home Media)
- Nicole Galovski (Tradition Home Media)
- Joie Jacoby (Tradition Home Media)
- Shawna Carroll (Tradition Home Media)
- Director: Prentice Penny (A Penny For Your Ideas)
- Showrunner: Joie Jacoby (Tradition Home Media)
- Producer: Jason Parham (WIRED Studios)
Remember to catch the docuseries “Black Twitter: A Individuals’s Historical past” on Hulu Could 9.
Try the teaser trailer under:
SEE ALSO:
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‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’: List Of Social Media Influencers Featured In Hulu Docuseries
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