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  • The Moonwalker, The Myth, The Legend Dazzles In Electric Teaser Trailer For Long-Awaited Biopic ‘Michael’

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    Source: Lionsgate Pictures

    Social media is ABLAZE over the long-awaited Michael teaser trailer that dazzled its way to 30 million views in only 6 hours as the definitive first look at the highly anticipated biopic.

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    Directed by Antoine Fuqua–the second highest grossing Black director of all-time, Michael stars MJ’s nephew Jaafar Jackson (Jermaine’s son) as the King of Pop in the glossy film that seemingly captures the spirit of music’s most golden era.

    Check out the teaser trailer below:

    Naturally, fans dissected every moment of the teaser including the now-viral reveal of Jaafar Jackson’s large prosthetic nose that sparked endless debate over accuracy vs. mockery across the internet.

    Whether you appreciate the accuracy or think they did too much, it’s clear the film isn’t scared to address every part of MJ’s iconic career.

    At one point, the film was rumored to be 4 HOURS before later being teased as a potential 2-part event.

    When asked by an analyst about Part 2 of the film, Lionsgate Motion Picture Chair Adam Fogelson teased that “more Michael” could be announced right after the first film is released, per World of Reel.

    “…we’ve had the great pleasure of seeing the director’s cut of the first film, and it is exceptional,” he said on a recent earnings call.

    “While we’re not yet ready to confirm plans for a second film, I can tell you that the creative team is hard at work making sure that we’re in a position to deliver more Michael soon after we release the first film.”

    Based on the rousing reception, Michael is primed to be one of 2026’s biggest hits when it moonwalks into theaters April 24, 2026 and is already stirring up hysteria that you can see on the flip.

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    Alex Ford

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  • The Anderson Cooper of Black Twitter Believes Journalism Can Survive Influencers

    The Anderson Cooper of Black Twitter Believes Journalism Can Survive Influencers

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    Is that how you see yourself—as a newsfluencer?

    I’m a journalist first, but there are people who fall under that category. Influencers aren’t a bad thing, necessarily. I know there’s a lot of debate around it. But there are people who have leaned into the news as part of their brand and what they do. People thought that’s what I was. I actually found out that a lot of people didn’t even know that I was a journalist until relatively recently. They thought I was, and this is a quote, “Some dude sharing news stories online.”

    For the longest time I thought you were a bot.

    A lot of people thought I was a bot. Or that I was just scheduling posts. And now I feel I can’t change my profile picture. People might think I got hacked.

    Is the attention economy so fucked now beyond the point of saving that it’s impossible to break through the chatter in a meaningful way?

    When you think about it, we’re competing with Instagram aggregators, blogs, social media pages focused solely on news, podcasts—it’s all over the place. I don’t necessarily think that’s a bad thing. If it wasn’t for social media, I would not have been able to take the path I did. We are in a crisis of attention, but what I find more frightening is the rise of misinformation and disinformation. That’s more chilling to me than the amount of people who want to do the best work that they can, whether that’s on YouTube or TikTok. There’s more than enough happening out there for us all to get a piece or whatever.

    True.

    I’m more concerned about the bad actors who are going after people who may not be reading the link. They might just be reading the headline, right? They might just be looking at the post with the black font that says, hey, this is what’s happening on Instagram, and that’s it.

    Because the state of news media has gotten so splintered, is this why you do what you do?

    I want to be able to be a resource for people online as far as getting them the information that they need. I mean, I love when people come up to me and they’re like, “Hey, you know, I found out about this through you.” I love hearing that because I do think there’s so much out there that there’s an equal amount of things that are being missed or underreported or that maybe people aren’t paying attention to.

    The reach you have is pretty incredible.

    What I like most about whenever I’m sharing a story, I know that it’s not just readers who are at work who, you know, just opened up their phone and were like, “Oh wow, I found out about this story.” It’s also assignment editors who follow me. People at The New York Times, at CNN—

    —at BuzzFeed. I bet they regret rejecting you now [laughs].

    It’s funny because people will tell me, “Hey, we shared your tweet in our newsroom Slack channel. That’s how we found out about the story, and now we’re going to write about it.” So you don’t have to have millions of followers, but I have a reach that’s a little different. And that’s important to me.

    It should be.

    That’s not to say I always get everything right. I always tell people, journalists get things wrong. We issue corrections. We try our best to do what we can. But what’s most important to me is making sure that the stories that I think people need to know about or need to read about, I try to get them out there—and apparently my Twitter page is the best way to do it.

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  • Why the Voices of Black Twitter Were Worth Saving

    Why the Voices of Black Twitter Were Worth Saving

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    The fear was reasonable. It was a fear I also carried. Uncertainty about whether or not I should tell the story now, and whether or not it was right to air what many consider family secrets, crept into the back of my mind. But I knew this story deserved to be told.

    When I set out to chronicle Black Twitter in April 2021—charting its rise, power, and what I felt was its unquestionable cultural impact—I was, admittedly, attempting to define a community that defies easy definition. In truth, Black Twitter is more than a community. It is an ever-growing, always-evolving force that has influenced nearly every aspect of modern life.

    Black Twitter is the birthplace of all your favorite memes, hashtags, and trends. It is more than that, too: Black Twitter doesn’t simply make culture; it shapes society. From the history-setting presidency of Barack Obama to hashtags like #OscarsSoWhite, #BlackGirlMagic, and #BlackLivesMatter, Black Twitter is both the extraordinary and the everyday. It is, as I wrote in 2021, all the things: news and analysis, call and response, judge and jury—a comedy showcase, therapy session, and family cookout all in one.

    Even as other platforms like TikTok have attempted to capture what made Twitter what it is—in my estimation, the most significant social platform of the 2010s—Black Twitter endures as the most dynamic subset not only of Twitter, now X, but also of the wider social internet (as last week proved, there was no better place to be than Black Twitter as the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef played out).

    What’s more, so much of Black life in public view is misrepresented and appropriated. It’s twisted into fantasy or fetish, or worse—left for dead. The technologies available to us have magnified our connection just as they have quickened our erasure. Our stories are routinely stolen from us, if not deleted outright. Out of our hands, our history is flattened and repurposed into dangerous falsehoods by lawmakers who peddle misinformation for personal gain. The story of Black Twitter was one account I didn’t want to lose to the whitewashing of history.

    I also knew that the reality of the social internet is one of impermanence. Once-crucial digital gathering spots from the 1990s and 2000s—NetNoir, Black Voices, MelaNet, Black Planet, and others—had come and gone largely without proper contextualizing. So it was important that I give Black Twitter its flowers while it was still around, which now seems even more urgent under the ownership of Elon Musk. All that we built, and continue to build on the platform, could be gone tomorrow.

    After WIRED published the people’s history of Black Twitter, I began working on a documentary based on the reporting in the oral history. The resulting three-part series, out today, expands on the original story, and also captures the very real fears surrounding what could lie in Black Twitter’s future.

    So why this story, and why now? It’s simple, really. I didn’t want Black Twitter to be another footnote.

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    Jason Parham

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  • A Peek Inside Hulu’s New ‘Black Twitter’ Docuseries

    A Peek Inside Hulu’s New ‘Black Twitter’ Docuseries

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    This week, the writer, director, and executive producers of the new documentary series Black Twitter: A People’s History tell us how they brought the community’s vibrancy to the small screen.

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  • DEIs Done Started Somethin’: Black Twitter Flips Racist Dog Whistle Into Hilarious Meme Wave, Reclaims Racial Slur From Musty Crusty MAGA Minions

    DEIs Done Started Somethin’: Black Twitter Flips Racist Dog Whistle Into Hilarious Meme Wave, Reclaims Racial Slur From Musty Crusty MAGA Minions

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    DEIs done started somethin’

    Source: Delmaine Donson

    Black Twitter was back at it again with the brilliant shenanigans–this time, flipping racist ‘DEI’ dog whistle into a hilarious meme wave that drowned out an onslaught of racism aimed at Baltimore’s duly-elected Black Mayor Brandon Scott.

    In the latest racist attack on a Black politician, right-wing bigots scampered to blame Baltimore’s tragic Francis Scott Key bridge collapse on its ‘DEI Mayor’ in their latest pathetic attempt to vilify policies aimed at diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

    As classy as he is qualified, Mayor Scott responded to the racist attacks in a now-viral interview with MSNBC’s Joy Reid.

    “Listen, I know and we all know and you know very well that Black men and young Black men in particular have been the boogeyman for those who are racist and think that only straight wealthy white men should have a say in anything,” said Scott who won his election with 70% of the vote.

    “What they mean by DEI, in my opinion, is duly elected incumbent. We know what they want to say but they don’t have the courage to say the N-word.”

    Naturally, Black Twitter assembled like Voltron to support Mayor Scott and reclaim the latest racist slur by replacing the n-word with DEI.

    What happened next was another reminder of Black Twitter’s brilliance in the face of blatant racism, cowardly bigotry, and pervasive misinformation that continues to slither into every corner of the internet.

    How are you DEIs feeling about the new go-to n-word? Tell us down below and peep the hilarious ‘DEI’ tweets and memes on the flip.

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    Alex Ford

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