“Where Is Our Black Avant Garde?” and other Tweeted Links…

Where Is Our Black Avant Garde? [lithub.com] via @thelithub @megafunkmega @JuneCarol_E

Clifton Walker: Murdered While On His Way Home to Wife and Five Children [blackthen.com]

5 Questions: Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies [amstudies.wordpress.com] via @AmStudies

Cecil Rhodes: Oxford University students call college 'cowardly' for keeping statue [telegraph.co.uk]

“by 1965 there were an estimated 200 of them in the group, and they were breaking with traditional gang patterns” [blvckvrchives.com]

Dirty Deal: Sierra Leone Civilians Say NO To Lebanese Garbage Imports [blackstarnews.com]

Jennie Dean Manipulated Tycoon Business Owners Into Funding Industrial School for Colored Youth [blackthen.com]

Brooklyn Juvenile Center Aide Indicted on Rape and Sexual Abuse Charges [blackstarnews.com]

Chinese miners rescued after being trapped underground for 36 days [telegraph.co.uk]

The gentrification of the drug crisis causes shift in reform approach [blavity.com]

South L.A. residents want city to act on Jefferson Boulevard oil drilling site [topix.com]

Harold & Belle’s returns to its Creole glory in Jefferson Park next month [la.eater.com] via @eaterla

Nearly half of young black men in Chicago out of work, out of school: report [chicagotribune.com]

Malcolm X: One of the Most Influential African American Leaders of All Time [blackthen.com]

You HAVE to see this live footage of John Lee Hooker from 1970. Really. Just drop what you’re doing. [dngrminds.net] @megafunkmega

Ron Carter earns world record as the most recorded jazz bassist in history [guinnessworldrecords.com] via @GWR @megafunkmega

11 childrens’ books that are historically accurate [blavity.com]

What Some White College Students Think About Their Minority Classmates [theatlantic.com]

Why the Calorie Is Broken [science.slashdot.org] @mindovermunch @overcookedvegan

Akon's Solar Inspiration & Tesla & Electric Car Love [youtube.com]

Why Sly Stone still can't collect royalties from his classic songs [latimes.com]

The fundamental importance of letting people be wrong on the internet [theverge.com]

End of an era for Apple as it predicts first revenue decline in 13 years [telegraph.co.uk]

[]( "Thoughtful_BlaCkman [wizdom4you]") ......the modern Black "activist" is activist just long enough to catch the eye of the White elite and cash in...... .....understand that

[]( "Jewell Sparks [jewellsparks]") Some of us talk about inclusion,yet WE are the very ones who exclude. How can we expect others to accept when we don't even embrace our own?

Meet Harry Wilson, Sr. -MD's 1st Black banker who purchased 1k acres in the 1920's to develop a Black neighborhood [articles.baltimoresun.com]

Producer Tony Visconti Breaks Down the Making of David Bowie’s Classic “Heroes,” Track by Track [openculture.com] via @openculture

Nannie Burroughs: Founded the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington D.C [blackthen.com]

Roger Ross Williams, the First Black Oscar-Winning Director, on "Life, Animated" & #OscarsSoWhite [democracynow.org]

‘The Birth of a Nation’ Premieres at Sundance With Big Standing Ovation and Oscar Buzz [variety.com]

The Birth of a Nation just set a record for the biggest Sundance deal ever [theverge.com]

many "black millennials" are unable to fathom whitewashing of Black history -so start with why cinematic Romans use a posh English accent

The caste system has left its mark on Indians’ genomes [arstechnica.com]

“Chaka Khan was also a member of the Black Panther Party” [forharriet.com] @ForHarriet

Via @nprbooks: 'I Regret Everything': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life [npr.org]

"What I know about writing:" Camille Dungy on the hard work of transformation [jmu.edu]

Octavia Butler’s personal journal shows the author literally wrote her life into existence [blavity.com]

Overcooked Vegan episode 7 is up [megafunk.wordpress.com] @overcookedvegan @mindovermunch

This Ghanaian Artist Reimagines Beyoncé, Rihanna & Drake Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before [okayafrica.com] [twitter.com]

Ai WeiWei Lightens Up With “Er Xi” Paper Kite Installation at Paris Department Store [supertouchart.com]

Check out this article: Sam Vernon: Exploring Graphic Art and Drawing as a Technology @mikemassenburg [africandigitalart.com]

Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects [entertainment.slashdot.org]

Jules Verne Accurately Predicts What the 20th Century Will Look Like in His Lost Novel [openculture.com]

Archaeologists Dig Up An 800-Year-Old Native American Pot. What They Found Inside Is Changing History [cfweradio.ca]

"The Settlers": New Film Reveals History & Consequences of Israeli Settlements on Palestinian Land [democracynow.org]

Billy Woodberry on Bob Kaufman | Keyframe - Explore the world of film. https://www.fandor.com/posts/unknown-if-not-forgotten-billy-woodberry-on-bob-kaufman

Stunning photos show why S. Korea is the plastic surgery capital of the world [washingtonpost.com]

in ep. #172 @MaronzioVance and return guest take on the Hessians mistaken for heifers [maronziovance.podbean.com] [twitter.com]

help [kintespace.com] get better! test out our audio player [click “load b-roll”] [codepen.io] [twitter.com]

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