Who is Shaun King and what happened to his Twitter?
POPULAR civil rights activist Shaun King is known for being vocal on social media regarding popular movements.
The media personality has received backlash in the past for being a "white man acting black."
The 41-year-old previously was a senior justice writer for the New York Daily News and was the writer-in-residence at Harvard Law School's Fair Punishment Project.
He also hosts the podcast The Breakdown with Shaun King.
"Leaders like Shaun King help us see how racism is not dead and forgotten, but merely a mutating virus, and one that manifests in different forms in every age," reads his bio at ShaunKing.org.
He was a leading voice for Black Lives Matter when allegations surfaced that he was white.
King wrote that he was "attacked with lies by the conservative media, lies that have been picked up by the traditional media and spread further."
"I have kept silent at the advice of friends and mentors, but I will do so no longer."
He added: "The reports about my race, about my past, and about the pain I’ve endured are all lies."
King would say that the " and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man."
He wrote in the piece: "For my entire life, I have held the cards of my complicated family history very close to my chest.
"I preferred to keep it that way and deeply resent that I have been forced to authenticate so many intimate details of my life to prove who I really am."