Vol
XIII
May 4, 2024
THE MAIN EVENT
Black Twitter is a cultural gift that keeps on giving. UpRising chats with the mind squad behind the upcoming docuseries that chronicles the rise and reign of Black ingenuity on the bird app
UpRising: Black Twitter: A People's History is based on the September 2021 Wired cover story. What was the process of the article getting the documentary treatment?
Jason Parham (Producer): I don't think I was necessarily envisioning that this oral history would turn into this three-part Onyx project on Hulu. I just wanted to really highlight and spotlight our genius on the platform. I’ve been on Twitter for a very long time, around Black Twitter’s founding around 2008, 2009. I wanted to give love.
We deserve our place in history. This is our story; I didn't want anybody else to tell it. I thought I could do it some justice. So the story comes out, then [executive producers] Sarah Amos and Andrew Whitney at [Conde Nast Entertainment] are like, “I think we can make this into something. We have a dream guy in mind to direct this: Prentice [Penny].” I was like, “Oh, shit! Insecure Prentice?!”
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