“Mapping Police Violence: New Study Shows Cops Have Killed At Least 1,152 In 2015” and other Tweeted Links…

Mapping Police Violence: New Study Shows Cops Have Killed At Least 1,152 In 2015 [democracynow.org]

Young Black men are six times more likely to die from gun homicide than suicide. [blavity.com]

Black Lives Matter protest halts traffic on 405 Freeway [abc7.com]

Claudia Rankine: ‘Blackness in the white imagination has nothing to do with black people’ [theguardian.com]

More Whites Gain Obamacare Coverage Than Blacks And Latinos Combined @TPM [talkingpointsmemo.com]

the whites kicked out of these trailers parks are likely to blame something not white in spite of the evidence [youtube.com]

12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School [news.slashdot.org]

Tennessee football player, 15, killed protecting girls from gunfire [abc7.com]

Oxford student behind Cecil Rhodes campaign wants French flag banned on campuses [telegraph.co.uk]

Silicon Valley is confusing pseudo-science with innovation [theverge.com]

Streaming is making the music industry more unequal [theverge.com]

This Was the Year the Media Started Doubting the Web [wired.com]

China passes controversial anti-terrorism law to access encrypted user accounts [theverge.com]

2015 Is the Year the FCC Finally Grew a Spine [wired.com]

Did You Know The “Colored Hockey League” Formed 22-Years Before the National Hockey League? [blackthen.com]

Ex-Harlem Globetrotters star Meadowlark Lemon dies [abc7.com]

Gone But Not Forgotten: Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon dies at 83 http://blackthen.com/gone-but-not-forgotten-harlem-globetrotter-meadowlark-lemon-dies-at-83/

Wake Robin Club: Thirteen Black Women Who Set Out to Bring Change to All-White Golf Courses [blackthen.com]

Thomas Andrew Dorsey: “Father of Black Gospel Music” and Writer of “Precious Lord, Take My Hand http://blackthen.com/meet-thomas-andrew-dorsey-the-father-of-black-gospel-music-and-writer-of-precious-lord-take-my-hand/

Why Tomeka Reid is Chicagoan of the Year in jazz [chicagotribune.com] @megafunkmega

Long Before Mary J. Blige, Ruth Brown was the “Queen of R&B” [blackthen.com]

FBI snooped on singer Pete Seeger for 20 years...A vast government... [guardian.tumblr.com]

Gone But Not Forgotten: Happy Birthday To The Father Of Black History, Mr. Carter G. Woodson [blackthen.com]

Clifford Chester Sims: Sacrificed Himself to Protect His Squad in the Vietnam War [blackthen.com]

Pinckney “Pinchback” Stewart: First Person of African Descent to Serve as Governor of a U.S. State http://blackthen.com/pinckney-pinchback-stewart-first-person-of-african-descent-to-serve-as-governor-of-a-u-s-state/

Will “Cannonball” Jackman: One of The Greatest Black Pitchers in Baseball History http://blackthen.com/will-cannonball-jackman-one-of-the-greatest-black-pitchers-in-baseball-history/

Haskell Wexler Dead at 93: Legendary Cinematographer, Activist Captured the Struggles of Our Times [democracynow.org]

Reverend Addie L. Wyatt: First Black Woman Named As “Person of the Year” by Time Magazine http://blackthen.com/reverend-addie-l-wyatt-first-black-woman-named-as-person-of-the-year-by-time-magazine/

The Race War of 1897-1898 in Lonoke County, Arkansas [blackthen.com]

Head to Head - Is Modi's India flirting with fascism? [youtube.com]

Remind me next year not to commit to helping 7 organizations/project raise money as part of end of year fundraising. [twitter.com]

It’s Time We Call Out Disney Princess Movies for What They Really Are [blavity.com]

Dreamgirls [newyorker.com] @newyorker

'Divorce mortgages' cash in on Christmas bust-ups [telegraph.co.uk]

Porter Ranch family moves out on Christmas due to sickening gas leak [abc7.com]

DWP may pay millions to over-billed customers [abc7.com]

Milan tries a temporary ban on cars to reduce pollution [theverge.com]

Streets in Lancashire flooded as red weather warning issued [telegraph.co.uk]

remember when the western world wanted to “tame” nature? ..yeah: they would want you extreme-weather kids to forget about that too

The 30 Most Exciting Artists in North America Right Now: Part One [news.artnet.com]

The Most Relevant Art Today Is Taking Place Outside the Art World [artsy.net] @artsy @another_africa @megafunkmega

New videos prove crows can make complex tools that only humans have made before [arstechnica.com]

Happy Birthday To Legendary Actress, Ms. Cicely Tyson! http://blackthen.com/happy-birthday-to-legendary-actress-ms-cicely-tyson/

Leigh Whipper: Founding Member of the Negro Actors Guild of America http://blackthen.com/leigh-whipper-founding-member-of-the-negro-actors-guild-of-america/

Star Wars actor John Boyega 'one of the last to see Damilola Taylor alive' [telegraph.co.uk]

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Reviewed [newyorker.com]

The Force Returns: George Lucas Before the “Star Wars” Prequels [newyorker.com]

The “Star Wars” Critics Have Spoken [newyorker.com]

Hateful Eight, Joy, other Oscar contenders leak before theatrical run [arstechnica.com]

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