"Los Angeles Times has added a reporter to cover Black Twitter"

"Dexter Thomas joins us today to cover Black Twitter (which really is so much more complicated than that). He will work closely with the newsroom and #EmergingUS to find communities online (Black Medium to Latino Tumblr to Line in Japan) and both create stories with and pull stories from those worlds."

http://www.poynter.org/news/mediawire/355529/los-angeles-times-has-added-a-reporter-to-cover-black-twitter/#.VZrZ_MoOoR0.twitter

Related: New York Magazine story about the Twitter leaders of BLM; An informative+inspiring essay about the nature of leadership and the origin of the phrase "Ella Taught Us"