“600 Million Africans Now Have Electricity Because of Akon” and other Tweeted Links…

600 Million Africans Now Have Electricity Because of Akon. This is REMARKABLE! [howafrica.com]

1842 African Slave Revolt Against the Cherokee Nation [blackthen.com]

This Documentary Celebrates the Women Who Lead Bahia’s Once-Secret Afro-Brazilian Religion [remezcla.com] @ElicianaN @REMEZCLA

The U.S. Military Really Doesn't Want to Talk About What It's Doing in Africa [huffingtonpost.com] via @HuffPostPol

20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS - HARDY AND RAMANUJAN [storyofmathematics.com]

The Five Stages of Fascism (1998) [pdf] [w3.salemstate.edu]

black history basics: RBG-Why We Wear Our Hair Like This 1968, Kathleen Cleaver of the BPP Br... [youtu.be]

Ntozake Shange on @Reelblack [youtube.com] @AVAETC @JuneCarol_E @lisafischersing

Diane Nash: Co-Founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [blackthen.com]

Zeke Miller: Deputy Sheriff Who Never Had to Shoot a Man to Make an Arrest [blackthen.com]

10 Things You Don't Know About Harriet Tubman but Really Should [theculture.forharriet.com]

"We Are Pushing Real Revolution": Black Lives Matter on Why They Don't Have Faith in Any Candidate [democracynow.org]

"Arts scenes often are p.c. cliques" [spokesman-recorder.com] [twitter.com]

The Kennedy Center taps Q-tip as their artistic director of hip hop culture [blavity.com]

WAYNE SHORTER & HERBIE HANCOCK PEN AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF ARTISTS [nesthq.com]

1000+ hours of early jazz music for free streaming/download | WWOZ New Orleans 90.7 FM [wwoz.org] [twitter.com]

Isamu Noguchi's Rare Ceramic Works Bridge Art and Design [core77.com]

Minimalist Composer La Monte Young on His Life and Immeasurable Influence [vulture.com] via @vulture

Blavity talks performance poetry, going viral and HBO Def Jam with Button Poetry [blavity.com]

“Kurt Klagsbrunn documented the life of Rio de Janeiro with an outsider’s sense of awe” [aperture.org] via @aperturefnd @elicianan

The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence [aeon.co]

Who Knew? The Waterbed Was Invented by an Industrial Design Student Doing a Class Assignment [core77.com] @tamtamsworld

Why the poor pay more for toilet paper — and just about everything else [wpo.st]

Mutant Yeast Are Cranking Out Pharma’s Next Superdrug [wired.com]

Men with breast cancer being failed as they are 'treated like women' @tamtamsworld [telegraph.feedsportal.com]

America’s First School District to Serve 100% Organic Meals [offgridquest.com] @OvercookedVegan @MindOverMunch [twitter.com]

The surprising Senegalese origins of many American foods [bostonglobe.com] @OvercookedVegan @sweetpotatosoul [twitter.com]

“Zappos has fallen off the overall list for the first time in eight years” [fortune.com]

The Seven Lessons of Marissa Mayer's Loss of Command at Yahoo [forbes.com]

“How do the companies reinforce the idea that flexibility is open to all and not reserved for the few, …?” [nytimes.com]

Amazon is using scare tactics to deter employee theft [theverge.com]

“How the U.S. government inadvertently launched a $3 trillion industry.” [bloomberg.com]

Is Passive Investment Actively Hurting the Economy? [newyorker.com]

A typo partially stopped hackers from stealing $1 billion from a Bangladesh bank [theverge.com]

Black Woman Engineer Launches 'Blind' Job Match App To Take Bias Out Of Tech Hiring via @forbes [forbes.com]

I ditched my lotion for an all natural DIY body butter and this is what happened [blavity.com]

The Bike Wars Are Over, and the Bikes Won @ciclavia [nymag.com]

America's High School Graduates Look Like Other Countries' High School Dropouts [wamc.org]

English and Welsh teenage pregnancies – perception versus reality [visual.ons.gov.uk] @tamtamsworld

What makes you and your childhood self the "same" person despite a lifetime of physical and psychological changes? [brainpickings.org]

again I’ll choose to die slowly in solitude rather than have my ‘disapproval’ of the other (adult) regarded as an ignorant and abusive habit

showing insecure-yet-narcissistic modern folk of African descent how great their ancestors were often makes them feel more inadequate

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the most powerful skill a “smart” adult has is to change their behavior based on new information without co-dependence on a “life coach”

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