TweetBLM: Black Lives Matter Hate Speech Dataset
Twitter (X)Hate speechIdentityPolitical communicationRace & ethnicitySocial movement A Twitter (#BlackLivesMatter) dataset of 9,165 tweets (3,084 hate speech, 6,081 non-hate), collected by Giorgi et al. via Twitter API (2020). Each record contains tweet text, binary hate label (0/1), hashtags, source platform, user friends/favourites count, retweet flag. 9,165 BLM-related tweets with hate speech labels — captures online discourse during the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement with 3,084 hate speech examples. Suitable for hate speech detection, social movement analysis, BLM discourse research, Twitter content moderation, political communication, racial justice NLP.
Cite this dataset at
tweetblm.echo.directory
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Computed over the full corpus.
Record
- Catalog key
tweetblm- Authors
- Kumar, Sumit; Pranesh, Raj Ratn
- Year
- 2021
- Source paper
- TweetBLM: A Hate Speech Dataset and Analysis of Black Lives Matter-related Microblogs on Twitter
- DOI / arXiv
- 10.48550/arXiv.2108.12521
- License
- CC BY 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0)
- Records
- 9,165
- Languages
- en
- Collected
- 2020 (2020s)
- Tasks
- Hate speech detection (binary;
is_hate) inferred - Region
- Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)
Provenance
- Originally published at
- https://zenodo.org/records/4000383 unverified
- Hosted copy
- Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 1.8 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.
How to cite
BibTeX
@misc{echo2026,
title = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
year = {2026},
url = {https://echo.directory},
note = {Syracuse University}
}
@misc{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2108.12521,
doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2108.12521},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12521},
author = {Kumar, Sumit and Pranesh, Raj Ratn},
keywords = {Computation and Language (cs.CL), FOS: Computer and information sciences, FOS: Computer and information sciences},
title = {TweetBLM: A Hate Speech Dataset and Analysis of Black Lives Matter-related Microblogs on Twitter},
publisher = {arXiv},
year = {2021},
copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International}
} APA
Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory
Kumar, S., & Pranesh, R. R. (2021). TweetBLM: Black Lives Matter Hate Speech Dataset [Data set]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2108.12521
MLA
Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.
Kumar, Sumit, and Raj Ratn Pranesh. TweetBLM: Black Lives Matter Hate Speech Dataset. 2021, doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2108.12521.