Race Matters

Nicholas and Mary Nicosia denied claims of racism from Black Rochester firefighter Jerrod Jones, but she admitted to having a racist Twitter.

Public Figures

Christian Walker's old tweet showing "love" for Kehlani contradicts his "mediocre singer" claim after their video confrontation at a Starbucks went viral.

Race Matters

The ex-Iowa Rep. compared gardening and abortion to slavery in a foolish Juneteenth tweet.

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Charles C. Johnson, a right-wing troll banned from Twitter over allegations he tried to incite deadly violence against former BLM leader Deray Mckesson, is reportedly expecting his account to be restored once Elon Musk's $43 billion purchase of the social media app becomes official.

News

After Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, which Shaun King said was "about white power," King appeared to have deleted his Twitter account in protest. Later, he revealed that he didn't delete his account. He claimed he deactivated it because of death threats.

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Many of the final social media posts from Ian Alexander Jr., Regina King's son and a DJ, singer and producer who performed as Desduné before dying by suicide, eagerly look toward the future. But others offered more cryptic messages.

Politics

Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene got her personal Twitter account permanently suspended for spreading misinformation about COVID-19. In response, she took shots at Maxine Waters, Ilhan Omar, Kamala Harris and others.

The satire video, which has amassed more than 460,000 likes on Youtube and over 27,000 retweets on Twitter, had Black people on social media buckled over in laughter, not because it was offensive, but the clip foreshadows how the N-word has become so deeply ingrained in our culture today.

Twitter users demanded an explanation from Phylicia Rashad after she tweeted "a miscarriage of justice is corrected" following Bill Cosby's release from prison and overturned conviction for sexual assault.

Social media users uncovered that Christine Davitt, a senior social media manager for Teen Vogue, used the n-word in three tweets posted from 2009-2010.