LOS ANGELES -- Twitter has officially become X.com. But the legacy of the social community known as Black Twitter will never be forgotten, thanks to the Onyx Collective's three-part documentary series "Black Twitter: A People's History," now streaming on Hulu.
Director Prentice Penny, producer Jason Parham, and Onyx Collective executive Jihan Robinson discussed the genesis of the project with ABC's On the Red Carpet Storytellers Spotlight. The docuseries was inspired by the feature story, " A People's History of Black Twitter ," written by WIRED magazine senior writer Jason Parham in 2021. "I initially wrote Black Twitter an oral history because I think we're in a very dangerous time," he said.
"You know, histories are being erased, identities are being told that they don't matter. And so, I think for me to take ownership over this story and to say, 'This was our moment in history and this was ours and nobody can take it from us.,' that was really important.
" "Black Twitter: A People's History" received a straight-to-series order from Onyx Collective, a content brand dedicated to supporting underrepresented creatives. Part of the appeal was the cultural phenomenon that Black Twitter became as it gained popularity around 2009. "It is a group of Black people from around the country and around the world that found community on this platform and actually went on to drive culture," said Jihan Robinson, vice president of documentary films and series at Onyx Collective.
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