“Egypt says King Tut mask was scratched, sends 8 to trial” and other Tweeted Links…

Egypt says King Tut mask was scratched, sends 8 to trial [abc7.com]

Giving Thanks and Praise to Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: Memorial Service In D.C. [blackstarnews.com]

James Van Der Zee: Renowned Photographer During the Harlem Renaissance [blackthen.com]

Charles B. Hall: First African-American Pilot to Down an Enemy Aircraft [blackthen.com]

Queen Nanny of the Winward Maroons: Mother to All Jamaicans [blackthen.com]

Gertrude Rush: Iowa’s First Black Female Lawyer and Founder of the National Bar Association [blackthen.com]

Cecil Rhodes statue pulled down in Cape Town | via @Telegraph [telegraph.co.uk]

Ernest Fredric “Sunshine Sammy” Morrison: First Black Actor to Sign a Long-Term Film Contract [blackthen.com]

Assata Shakur: Most-Wanted Terrorist To Them But A Revolutionary Hero To Us [blackthen.com]

"I don’t want Wikipedia to be a place where women are written out of history again, because if it’s not on Wikipedia, it’s not visible.”

there are at least 2.5 major religions in the world that deeply, deeply depend on certain ancient peoples not being directly African

50 Years after MLK the Median White Family is Worth 70 times that of a Black Family [blackstarnews.com]

1964 MLK speech [youtube.com] @democracynow

"Nigerian proverb" is not respectful enough: make an effort to identify the name of the people who actually used the "proverb"

Happy Birthday To One Of The First To Perform Open Heart Surgery, Daniel Hale Williams [blackthen.com]

Looking Black On Today In 1918, John H. Johnson Was Born [blackthen.com]

First African Baptist Church: Oldest African-American Baptist Church in the Nation [blackthen.com]

Looking Black On Today In 1913, Educator Fanny Jackson Coppin Passed Away [blackthen.com]

John Lewis Waller: Prominent Lawyer, Businessman, and Diplomat [blackthen.com]

Life never ran these striking images of what it was like to be black in 1950s America: [slate.com] via @slate

N.Y.C. to L.A. to N.Y.C. to L.A., Ad Infinitum [newyorker.com]

[]( "Thoughtful_BlaCkman [wizdom4you]") Do we REALLY expect others to truly view us as equals as long as they see how absolutely dependent we are on their validation/benevolence?

Weak Electrical Field Found To Carry Information Around the Brain [science.slashdot.org]

Female entrepreneurs of color have a hard time getting the money men to open their wallets [pri.org] [twitter.com]

Google to pay £130 million in back taxes to the UK [theverge.com]

Apple, Samsung and Sony linked to child labor in Africa [engadget.com] via @engadget

The 1% Economy: The World's Richest 62 People Now Have as Much as Poorest 3.6 Billion [democracynow.org]

Stunned silence for drowned migrant girl found washed up on Greek island [telegraph.co.uk]

Police department charging TV news network $36,000 for body cam footage [arstechnica.com]

By age 18 40% of Black girls & women report having experienced "coercive contact of a sexual nature". It doesn't end here #BlackWomenMatter

Trailer: Pre-'Star Wars' @JohnBoyega Shines in 'Imperial Dreams' - An Overlooked Gem [blogs.indiewire.com] [twitter.com]

The Importance of African-inspired aesthetics in Black Panther’s costume [blavity.com]

Werner Herzog's internet doc Lo and Behold is a must-see for anyone on social networks [theverge.com]

Gil Scott-Heron: Acclaimed Poet, Spoken Word Performer, and “Bluesologist” [blackthen.com]

Digital artist Geneva B. will reacquaint you with your inner child [blavity.com]

after decades, Diana Thater's first show in Los Angeles [youtube.com] @JuneCarol_E @megafunkmega @another_africa

Andrei Tarkovsky Calls Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey a “Phony” Film “With Only Pretensions to Truth” [openculture.com]

This 1983 Documentary About Early Electronic Music Is Eerily Beautiful | Electronic Beats @megafunkmega [electronicbeats.net]

This Brazilian Photographer’s Project Celebrates Black Beauty in Bahia [remezcla.com]

Audacity 2.1.2 Open Source Audio Editor Has Better Noise Reduction Effects [linux.softpedia.com]

The Invention of Ambient Music [newyorker.com]

artist Zhang Huan [youtube.com]

Solar energy now employs more U.S. workers than oil and gas construction [money.cnn.com] #DemDebate [twitter.com]

Salty, ocean-based capacitors may deliver energy boost [arstechnica.com]

June Bacon-Bercey: Internationally Renowned Meteorological Scientist [blackthen.com]

How Does All of That Garbage Get Into the Ocean in the First Place? [core77.com]

"I’ve spent much of my life chronicling the ongoing tragedies stemming from global warming. But..." [guardian.tumblr.com]

more plastic than fish? [youtube.com]

The Insanely Complicated Logistics of Cage-Free Eggs for All [wired.com]

because @WordPress is so popular the [kintespace.com] blog has been attacked again and is down; will take a look into the issue...

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