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Leslie Jones condemns @twitter for not doing enough to tackle racist abuse

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LINK: Bombarded with racist tweets following Ghostbusters’ opening weekend

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#CarefreeBlackKids2k16 & #CarefreeBlackKids Shine a Light

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LINK: Hit Up These Hashtags!

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Twitter Comes To The Rescue After Dallas PD Misidentify Shooter

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LINK: Official DPD Twitter posts picture of law-abiding man as a suspect

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Fans on Twitter Want Gina Rodriguez to Play Marvel Hero Miss America

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LINK: Prompted by a tweeted collage from @winterchildrens

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Recode: A talk with .@deray Mckesson & Twitter’s CEO

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LINK: Peter Kafka interviews the Twitter CEO and the #BlackLivesMatter activist

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Malachi Kirby Talks About ROOTS’s Return for the Black Lives Matter Generation

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Lots of great stuff in this piece…read on at The Daily Beast.

The Roots remake is showing on the History channel and stars Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte, Forest Whitaker, Laurence Fishburne, Anna Paquin, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Matthew Goode, and Anika Noni Rose.

Malachi Koirby as Kuinta Kinte in the 2016 remake of the legendary miniseries Roots

Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte in the 2016 remake of the legendary miniseries Roots

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2016 Study Maps US Hate Speech Via Tweets

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Recently, the nationwide rental start-up Adobo conducted a study of language Americans use when tweeting about different races, ethnicities, genders, religions, and sexual orientations. Adobo posted about their findings on their website in a series called Tolerance in America.

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(ICYMI Fusion also features a more focused use of the info to single out hate speech in US Colleges)

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Twitter’s Pitch to China: We May Be Blocked, But You Can Still Buy Our Ads

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Click here to go to Variety.com.

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#WhiteWashedOUT goes beyond Hollywood’s diversity fails

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LINK: Asian American protest “More than just racism in movies”

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@twitter hires former Chinese military officer

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Dissidents worry #TwitterisDead

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