August of this year marks a decade since Brown was killed by a Ferguson police officer. That singular event feels formative in a way that's difficult to overstate.
"We saw what was taking place in Ferguson, through Twitter," said journalist Brandon "Jinx" Jenkins in Black Twitter: A People's History. "Twitter was captioning life live. The news was not."
"Not unlike Jenkins and most other people who stayed tuned in to what was really going on in this unassuming city in Missouri, I received my news not from corporate media but from social media sources like Twitter, now X."
"All I had was my Twitter and my Facebook," Elzie said in archival New York Times footage featured in the docuseries. "I felt someone somewhere would really care about what I was saying."
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