“Police are Killing Native Americans at Higher Rate…” and other Tweeted Links…

Police are Killing Native Americans at Higher Rate than Any Race, and Nobody is Talking About It [po.st] @Chiefelk

Flint Is in the News, but Lead Poisoning Is Even Worse in Cleveland [nytimes.com]

We may have an opportunity, in the wreckage of our two-party system, to form a new party. [scripting.com]

USC tuition tops $50K, making it more expensive than some Ivy League campuses [abc7.com]

Gray’s Anatomy may have been largely plagiarized, written by a scoundrel [arstechnica.com]

"Trump is not just a wacky politician of the far right... he is an extinction-level event." Fine piece [nymag.com]

November 20, 1962 – President Kennedy Orders End to Discrimination in Federal Housing [VIDEO] [blackthen.com]

Ericka Huggins: Activist, Political Prisoner, Former Leader of The Black Panther Party [blackthen.com]

Cheap oil is taking shipping routes back to the 1800s [bbc.com]

Award-winning Washington Post photographer dies of heart attack in Liberia [news.yahoo.com] @megafunkmega

Fannie Lou Hamer Arrested and Beaten in Winona, Mississippi [VIDEO] [blackthen.com]

this could be the century when self-organization of Black women is restored, giving sisters more confidence to reach out from group safety

the resurrection of collective Black-women power is great for me as it gives one the heart to embrace the unknown, without false negatives

Dorothy Ghettuba makes Keynan TV [youtube.com] @AVAETC @megafunkmega

Remember that time the @nytimes called Viola Davis "less classically beautiful"? Well, she responded: [ow.ly]

Interesting how whenever black waiters are the topic it's all "no one owes you a tip/you must earn it" even w the endless abuse from client.

The best African-American figure skater in history is now bankrupt and living in a trailer [myajc.com]

Confessions of ‘Confessions of a Black Gentrifier’ [shaniohilton.wordpress.com] @shani_o @megafunkmega

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard and President Truman’s Executive Order 9981 [blackthen.com]

Designer Dionisio Gonzales Envisions Futuristic Fort-Like Homes To Withstand Hurricanes [designyoutrust.com] [twitter.com]

art history nerds look at the furniture in the room and tell you the style/period/theory behind why it's there -so too, with words, ideas

FROM THE VAULT | We don't want white apologies, we want our land back | @panashechig [bit.ly] [twitter.com]

A Few Things You Should Know About the "Darkest Material Ever Made" [core77.com]

Marion Perkins: Fascinating Black Sculptor During the Depression [blackthen.com] @junecarol_e

Prince's First Television Interview in 1985 | MTV News [youtu.be]

On this last day of #NationalPoetryMonth, a lovely illustrated celebration of Pablo Neruda [brainpickings.org] [twitter.com]

This Is What Happens When You Drink Coffee In The Morning On An Empty Stomach [interesting-things.us] @overcookedvegan @mindovermunch

The cook does not have to be a beautiful woman. ~ Shona Proverb #AfricanWisdom

Rex Ingram: Pioneer Black Actor With Powerful Presence and Voice on Stage [blackthen.com]

Melissa Harris-Perry’s mistake was that she didn’t “own her masters” [blavity.com]

she is either overwhelmed by the multitude, “empowering” herself by not responding or censoring herself from a lifetime of disrespect

I still think that North Americans need way too many high-energy cues of “positivity” from “outsiders” to prevent social/emotional violence

Watch Trailer for 'Tomb' - A Rare Sci-Fi Thriller Feature Film From Trinidad & Tobago [blogs.indiewire.com] @megafunkmega

Colorado's first black woman cannabis entrepreneur: We're "being left out of this brand-new industry" [owl.li]

"if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” ― Toni Morrison

Meet The Sierra Leonean Ballet Star From Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ [okayafrica.com] [twitter.com]

"... government has told... 4 sports associations they [can't] host int'l events because their teams are too white." [twitter.com]

Watch the trailer for Myst's spiritual successor, Obduction [theverge.com]

Why Data-Driven Storytelling is the Next Big Thing in Content Marketing [bit.ly] #leanstartup

Great video on what #AI is, and isnt : Now I Get It: Artificial intelligence [yhoo.it] #ITRTG [twitter.com]

My brain made me do it: Neuroscience and behavioral genetics in court [arstechnica.com]

The meteoric rise of NASA's social media program [bit.ly] #socialmedia

Man moves individual fingers on prosthetic arm using only his thoughts [hub.jhu.edu]

“Problematic” fossil turns out to be oldest known example of life on land [arstechnica.com]

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