Welcome back to This Week in Black Twitter, your weekly digest of the happenings on Black Twitter and the cultural conversations on the web. Topics span the gamut — pop culture, politics, sports, lifestyles and everything in between.
This week: Users take the #HiddenFences blunder as an opportunity to create new movie titles, and President Barack Obama gives an emotional farewell.
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Read moreIt was Superhero Day at 8-year-old Michele Threefoot's elementary school, but instead of being Super Girl or Wonder Woman, the Columbia third-grader opted to be her real-life hero: Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Little did she know, days later the Supreme Court Justice would see her picture on the internet and handwrite her a special note.
Read moreWhen Sam Barsky logged into Facebook on Sunday, he thought he had been hacked.
More than a hundred friend requests and thousands of messages about his sweaters flooded his account. Barsky had gone viral.
Read moreFree performance at Coppin State University will culminate in audience discussion of contemporary issues
Read moreA crocodile-skin coffee table and a Soviet-era wool military trench coat that once belonged to Tom Clancy could be yours, if your price is right.
Items from the Baltimore-born spy novelist's Chesapeake Bay estate will be auctioned off at the end of the month, according to Elizabeth Wainstein, founder and president of Alexandria, Va.-based auction house The Potomack Co.
Read moreAn event billing itself as the largest astrology conference in the United States will take place Feb. 16-19 in Baltimore at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor.
Those are auspicious dates for such an event, said Joyce Levine, chairwoman of the National Council for Geocosmic Research Inc., which is hosting the conference. Why?
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