“Billionaire Byron Allen Talks Cable Discrimination Lawsuits & Lack of Black Wealth” and other Tweeted Links…

Billionaire Byron Allen Talks Cable Discrimination Lawsuits & Lack of Black Wealth with Antonio Moore [blackstarnews.com]

Study says presidential candidate media coverage was unbalanced early and often [news.harvard.edu]

Americans' Confidence in Institutions Stays Low [gallup.com]

Latest CIA Torture Docs Show "Evidence of War Crimes" & Level of Brutality That Even Shocked Bush [democracynow.org]

We Must Understand Corporate Power to Fight It [blackstarnews.com]

Daniel Jenkins: Founder of the Jenkins Orphanage in 1891 [blackthen.com]

Elizabeth D. Koontz: First Black Woman President of the National Education Association [blackthen.com]

John Cheatham: One of Minneapolis’ First African-American Firefighters [blackthen.com]

Vital Rituals of the Afro-Cuban Underground [newyorker.com]

Never Forget: America’s Forgotten Mass Lynching: When 237 Black Sharecroppers Were Murdered In Arkansas [blackmainstreet.net]

Derby’s Dose: Deplorable & Sickening Form of Torture Used to Punish Slaves in Jamaica [blackthen.com]

A Lost Decade? We Should Be So Lucky [bloomberg.com]

Joshua Beckford: The Youngest Child to Attend Oxford University (Video) [blackthen.com]

College courses without textbooks? These schools are giving it a shot [washingtonpost.com]

Public domain for California government works is under threat [blog.wikimedia.org]

London Rents Eating Up 57% of Twentysomethings’ Income [bloomberg.com]

I'm moving houses. I am getting now over 20 spam calls a day on our landline as a result of people selling this info. It's ridiculous.

Prathia Hall: Tough Platform Speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Preferred Not to Follow [blackthen.com]

The Racial Uplift Narrative: Avoiding the Cliché, but Ruining the Conflict [shadowandact.com]

Astronauts should get lifetime healthcare from NASA, Congress says [theverge.com]

110-year-old electric cars sold at auction as collectors start to appreciate them [greencarreports.com]

NYPD Surveillance Unveiled: City Claims to Lose Docs on 1960s Radicals, Then Finds 1 Million Records [democracynow.org]

FBI says utility pole surveillance cam locations must be kept secret [arstechnica.com]

best-seller: Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War by Adam Hochschild [amazon.com] [twitter.com]

We will look back on these innocent days and remember when Humans roamed the Earth freely without AI intervention. [twitter.com]

The Ancient City of Florence Could Fit Inside an Atlanta Interchange (2014) [streetsblog.net]

Toyota Prius hybrid is cheapest car over 10 years that you can buy [greencarreports.com]

Doctors are overloaded with electronic alerts, and that’s bad for patients [washingtonpost.com]

Boys high in cognitive empathy attracted an average of 1.8 more girl friendships @tamtamsworld [psypost.org]

You can now retweet yourself, because you're good enough, smart enough, and you like you [theverge.com]

The Colombian Hit Man Who Became a YouTube Star [nytimes.com]

We’ve been to Jupiter before but haven’t looked into its mysterious soul [arstechnica.com]

The mutation that famously turned moths black during Industrial Revolution [bbc.com]

Here’s what might be happening to your feet when you run in shoes [arstechnica.com]

New algorithm finds signs of depression in your Instagram feed [engt.co] [twitter.com]

bell hooks with Theaster Gates and Laurie Anderson: Public Art, Private Vision I The New School [youtube.com] @mikemassenburg

Charles “Papa Charlie” McCoy: Renowned Delta Blues Musician, Songwriter [blackthen.com]

Here are the 4 black actors who won for Best Musical Performance at the Tony Awards [blavity.com]

Filmed Over 15 Years With Unprecedented Access to Perry, ‘Lee Scratch Perry’s Vision of Paradise’ Arrives July 12 [shadowandact.com]

Who Was the First African-American Woman Director? (The Answer Isn’t as Simple as You May Think) [shadowandact.com]

Howard University is selling the first and only black-owned public TV station in the country [blavity.com]

Global Black Feminist Reading Circle [youtube.com]

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Now's the Time [amazon.com] [twitter.com]

Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by @bellhooks [amazon.com] @RowenaMonde [twitter.com]

Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art.. by Robert Farris Thompson [amazon.com] @RowenaMonde [twitter.com]

a @RowenaMonde pick: Chess Story (New York Review Books Classics) by Stefan Zweig [amazon.com] [twitter.com]

a @RowenaMonde pick: Letter to Jimmy by Alain Mabanckou [amazon.com] review: [lesreveriesderowena.wordpress.com] [twitter.com]

.@RowenaMonde pick: Gathering of Waters by Bernice McFadden [amazon.com] review: [lesreveriesderowena.wordpress.com] [twitter.com]

via @RowenaMonde: lost in language & sound by Ntozake Shange [amazon.com] review: [lesreveriesderowena.wordpress.com] [twitter.com]

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