The Black Fantastic in International Relations | Review of International Studies
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 21, 2025
In 2016, British investigative journalist Simon Rogers created a map/timeline of Twitter hashtags associated with Black Lives Matter. The map (which as of July 2023 can no longer be found on the Internet) indirectly shows both the intensity of Black Lives Matter protests and their geographic scope. Within the United States, we see protest activity not only in metropolitan areas with large African American population percentages, but also in metropolitan areas with few (if any) African Americans. Further we see protests not just in the United States but throughout the world. The 2020 George Floyd murder . . .
