Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Black Twitter users showed their collective might after it was announced that a juror in the George Zimmerman trial had received a book deal. Public outrage over social media prompted the juror's book agent to back off.
According to a piece on Buzzfeed, "Black Twitter" has also played a role in the downfall of celebrity chef Paula Deen and the popularity of the show Scandal which stars an African-American lead.
Michelle Taylor, who tweets and blogs under the moniker Feminista Jones, writes in Salon about how this trend became abundantly clear in the wake of the Zimmerman trial.