Black activism has been shaped by tech and data for 100 years

Du Bois visualised his community in a compact and systematic form

© WEB Du Bois/library of congress

DECADES before the creation of social media and the birth of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, early adopters of the internet were using precursors of email, user forums and the web to organise black communities in the US and beyond and push for racial justice.

In his book Black Software: The internet and . . .