Black Excellence: Apps!

“Our short-term goals are to get folks home for the holidays”

• There are more African American men incarcerated in the U.S. than the total prison populations in India, Argentina, Canada, Lebanon, Japan, , Finland, Israel and England, combined.

• Ziegler, a PhD recipient now based in Oakland, explains that a July tweet proposing the app idea gained traction, inspiring him to pursue the concept in a real way.

• While Appolition.us is another towering extension of Ziegler’s contributions towards aiding marginalized people, he knows it’s a small step towards bringing light and hope to the trying effects mass incarceration presents.

Also, someone literally made Blitter—a black twitter (the creator is Patrick Francis).

”Blitter is a social network built on love, ion, and empathy. Blitter does not condone racism, sexism, harassment, bots, or hate speech whatsoever. We are 100% independent from any investors and display no ads!”

Blitter allows s to enjoy functions that merge Twitter, Instagram and Vine into one tool– including posting statuses with up to 120 characters, taking in-app photos, ing videos up to 15 seconds, and creating Vine-esque videos with start and stop capabilities.

Also, anyone caught spewing hate-speech just gets booted right off. Now isn’t that lovely?