{"id":29742,"date":"2020-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/black-activists-to-follow\/"},"modified":"2020-06-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T00:00:00","slug":"black-activists-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.milleworld.com\/black-activists-to-follow\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Activists, Organizers and Journalists You Need to Follow"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday your feed was likely flooded with black images\u2014a social media movement believed by many to be a form of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter<\/a> movement. What ensued was anything but that. Instead, the black images and the hashtags attached to them (which were shared by the millions) proved themselves to be a result of a tragic level of misinformation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As soon as the movement took momentum, black activists, organizers, writers and journalists took to their platforms to express their concerns over its effects and origins. Not long after, millions of posts wrongfully used the #BLACKLIVESMATTER hashtag, flooding it with millions of black images, ultimately burying a sea of information about the movement that has been cultivated over the course of five years, since Black Lives Matters was founded in 2014.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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IM SO ANGRY IM ON THE BRINK OF TEARS<\/p>\n

THEY GOT YALL TO ERASE THE PROTESTS FROM INSTAGRAM<\/p>\n

OMFG pic.twitter.com\/knaEoBu3nd<\/a><\/p>\n

— I watch too many paranormal shows (@FeministaJones) June 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n