Local Tweets About NPR and Anacostia
I used Storify, a neat tool which aggregates tweets (or other snippets of social media) and presents them in one tidy package to pull together local reactions to yesterday’s Morning Edition segment on Anacostia. What you see above is a screen shot of the collection. The full, interactive “story” is below the jump:
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In Your Words-- Psychology Today on Black Women and Beauty
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