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Prentice Penny (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Black culture repurposed Twitter

D. Watkins
A longexposure shot of both old and new version of Twitter logo (Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Goodbye to Twitter, the once cool app

D. Watkins
Laptop on fire (Getty Images/ALLVISIONN)

Repairing our online public squares

Leslie Stebbins
April Reign is the founder of the #OscarsSoWhite movement, has recently spoken out against HBO's planned series "Confederate." (Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

April Reign: FCC should protect Twitter

Melanie McFarland
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Piers Morgan (Reuters/Andrew Burton)

Morgan trolls Black Twitter

Scott Eric Kaufman
(Facebook)

Sophia Tesfaye
Aretha Franklin, Patti LaBelle (Reuters/Jose Luis Magaua/Jonathan Ernst)

In praise of the blagosphere

Niela Orr
Protestors at a rally for Tracy Martin in Miami, Florida (Reuters/Andrew Innerarity)

Kwame Opam
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Zimmerman verdict demonstrators march toward Times Square (AP/John Minchillo)

It's not "just Twitter"

Feminista Jones
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