This re-energized millennial movement, which will make itself felt all the more in 2015, differs from its half-century-old civil rights-era forebear in a number of important ways. One, it is driven far more by social media and hashtags than marches and open-air rallies. Indeed, if you wanted a megaphone for a movement spearheaded by young people of color, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better one than Twitter, whose users skew younger and browner than the general public, which often has the effect of magnifying that group’s broad priorities and fascinations. It’s not a coincidence that the Twitterverse helped surface and magnify the stories of Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Gene Demby beautifully lays out the story of the reemergence of Black activism with the founding of organizations and networks like Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, Dream Defenders, Black Lives Matter, Freedom Side, BYP 100, Ohio Student Association, Millennial Activists United, and Hands Up United
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:31:00 +0000
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