“after 70 years: Ethiopian Airlines” and other Tweeted Links…

after 70 years: Ethiopian Airlines [youtube.com]

AirBnbWhileBlack Highlights Discrimination Faced by Black Travelers [huffingtonpost.com]

The Loneliness of Being Black in San Francisco @libertymadison [nytimes.com]

This is the targeted mention I have ever received 😆😁 The Solution is 8 min to Oakland!! 😉 [twitter.com]

Passenger thinks Penn prof doing math is 'terrorist;' flight delayed [philly.com]

San Francisco Police Texting Scandals Exposes Deep-seated Institutional Racism [blackstarnews.com]

If the police are using 3D printed fingerprints, can we now say that they are not a unique identifer and could be planted at crime scenes?

Twitter Bars Intelligence Agencies from Using Analytics Service [wsj.com]

Where the FBI's top cybercrime agents go after quitting the force [dailydot.com]

John Carter: Lynching that Rocked the Heart of Little Rock, Arkansas [blackthen.com]

Earle Race Riot of 1970: The Fight to End Segregation and Discrimination [blackthen.com]

John R. Clifford: Attorney Known for Victory Win in Williams vs Board of Education [blackthen.com]

The Chitlin’ Circuit: Performance Venues For The Nation’s Best Black Musicians [blackthen.com]

Dorothy West: Renowned Novelist and Short Story Writer During the Harlem Renaissance [blackthen.com]

Why Are Highly Educated Americans Getting More Liberal? [npr.org]

It Depends What You Study, Not Where [economist.com]

We Love Space Exploration, but Mostly in Our Dreams [now.space]

Vera Rubin, who discovered dark matter, turns 88 today. Somebody give her a Nobel already. [brainpickings.org] [twitter.com]

The World's Newest Major Religion: No Religion [news.nationalgeographic.com]

Professors intentionally slow down science to make themselves look better [lemire.me]

Why Naval Academy students learn to sail by stars for the first time in a decade [washingtonpost.com]

Solar Planes Aren't the Green Future Of Air Travel [tech.slashdot.org]

Warren Buffet is anti-solar and exploits over 17,000 very white Nevada homeowners [youtube.com]

The Cost of the Cultural Revolution, Fifty Years Later [newyorker.com]

I didn't notice until recently the huge Charles White painting above the circulation desk at my local library. 1 mo… [twitter.com]

These rare Indian records survived over a century and are now online [arstechnica.com]

The Bloody History of War, Illustrated by Design Legend Seymour Chwast [wired.com]

I just backed Save the Early Films of Christine Vachon & Todd Haynes on @Kickstarter [kck.st]

Meet the Vodou Priestess Summoning Healing Spirits in Post-Earthquake Haiti (Short Documentary) [shadowandact.com]

Sierra Leone-born Mahen Bonetti, founder and director of the New York African Film Festival [makonitimes.com] @megafunkmega

Incredible—mushrooms can make their own wind! Here's how [grnpc.org] #completelyoptional #podcast [twitter.com]

Here’s how gut microbes train your immune system to dodge disease @mindovermunch [arstechnica.com]

My Mother’s day: My mother’s life is ‘officially’ tragic—in a Black-working-class relatively understated way.... [bit.ly]

I'm absolutely stunned. I believe this will be the first time EVER black women will be writing for Marvel. [twitter.com]

Not that DC is much better. They've had ONE, and IIRC, she was barely given a chance to write anything [twitter.com]

50% of Devices Draw Power Even When Off [nytimes.com]

Apple’s actual role in podcasting: be careful what you wish for [marco.org]

1909: Leo Tolstoy telling a story to his grandchildren. [twitter.com]

Ursula K. Le Guin on How Storytelling Expands Our Scope of the Possible [brainpickings.org]

here's a little WIP thing i'm working on with #b3d! [twitter.com]

on Kindle: Solemn: A Novel by Kalisha Buckhanon [amazon.com] [twitter.com]

How Did People in the Colonial Period Stay Informed? [historynewsnetwork.org]

on Kindle: Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South by Alejandra Dubcovsky [amazon.com] [twitter.com]

@RowenaMonde i continue to bring this topic up in the "hope" that young people like you will take up this scale of study

@KinteSpace well I'm very very interested in African linguistics

@RowenaMonde many of us suffer metaphysically trying to function in a world of ideas without the wisdom of the ancients.

@KinteSpace ooh,I'd never considered that before, very profound

@RowenaMonde when a young black artist "creates" a "post-apocalyptic" fiction/art it might be a failure to see the apocalypse that is now

@KinteSpace well said

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