BlackPlanet

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: BlackPlanet / iOne Interactive Social media has become an integral part of our lives, and a new documentary from BlackPlanet examines the platform’s role in helping to create a space for the Black community to maximize its presence online. Sure, there’s not a day that goes by without us checking Facebook, Twitter, or other social media that we’re tapped into. It’s wild to imagine how it all started back in the late 1990s. BlackPlanet, the social media platform which became a launching pad for so many in the Black community as social media and networking on the Internet began, is now exploring that era in a new documentary. Related Stories Titled Black, Connected, and Copied, the film is hosted by the well-regarded historian and Black cultural expert T.L. ...