Black Twitter: The Twitterverse that Changed a Generation
CBS Evening News
CBS News
3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
You may know the hashtags and the groundbreaking movements - #BlackLivesMatter, #OscarsSoWhite, #SayHerName - but now you'll get an inside look at where they were born: Black Twitter. CBS Reports interviewed celebrities, influencers, and thought leaders to chronicle the history of Black Twitter and how it ended up creating a pop culture juggernaut and driver of social justice. National correspondent and anchor of the Sunday edition of the "CBS Weekend News" Jericka Duncan and comedian Roy Wood Jr. discuss the documentary, which is available to stream now on the CBS News app and Paramount+.
This conversation was recorded via Twitter Spaces on February 23, 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:01.3 | My name's Jureka Duncan. |
| 0:02.6 | I'm a CBS News correspondent here in New York. |
| 0:05.7 | And we're going to talk about Black Twitter. |
| 0:08.5 | Our lovely social media team at CBS has helped to set this up. |
| 0:12.4 | But more importantly, we're going to bring in the one, the only, |
| 0:17.2 | Roy Wood Jr., everybody. |
| 0:19.5 | Yes, that's me clapping for myself. |
| 0:21.3 | I heard you clapping for me. |
| 0:22.7 | Why you snap yourself from clapping for me? |
| 0:26.7 | You know, you got to have the sound effects. |
| 0:29.0 | Or did you snap your fingers like a poet? |
| 0:31.7 | Oh, yes. |
| 0:32.4 | Let me do the, there you go, very black Twitter of me. |
| 0:37.9 | Thank you for joining us. I know you're very busy, but we want to make sure that we're |
| 0:42.6 | promoting this in a way where people will tune in. Black Twitter, as you know, has been around |
| 0:47.7 | for some time. I have learned a lot in doing this report and also realize how uncool maybe I was when I first heard |
| 0:57.2 | these words because you definitely clown me in this documentary for not knowing exactly what |
| 1:02.8 | Black Twitter is, but that's the beauty in it because a lot of people have asked that question, |
| 1:07.4 | but had a general understanding. So without further ado, Roy Wood Jr., tell us what you remember the first time you heard Black Twitter, |
| 1:16.0 | because we're going to talk about this in documentary on CBS. |
| 1:20.5 | It was, I was still doing morning radio. |
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