In the book BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, award-winning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the "meme" as represented in Black visual culture from 1900 to the present day, drawing from archival and contemporary media. Russell argues that without the contributions of Black people, digital culture would not exist in its current form. These reflections include the circulation of lynching postcards, why a mother allowed JET magazine to publish a photo of her deceased son, Emmett Till, and how the television broadcast of protesters in Selma changed the conversation about civil rights. Issues of Black representation by the media come to the forefront as Russell examines how the citizen-shot video of Rodney King’s beating by the LAPD became the first viral video. The inquiry into who owns the image and death of Blacks is examined in the story of Tamara Lanier and her effort to reclaim the photographs of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard. Concurrently, the Facebook livestream of Philando Castile’s killing by the police, following a stop for a broken light, forces us to witness the enduring legacy of the Black meme. Through image, memory, and technology, BLACK MEME shows us how images of Blacks have always been central to our understanding of the contemporary world.