“A Shocking Story of How a Chicago Cop Killed a Teen—Then Locked Up His Best Friend for the Murder” and other Tweeted Links…
A Shocking Story of How a Chicago Cop Killed a Teen -- Then Locked Up His Best Friend for the Murder [democracynow.org]
Kobe Bryant and Jeff Stibel Unveil $100M Venture Capital Fund [wsj.com]
Giving up alcohol opened my eyes to the infuriating truth about why women drink [qz.com] via @qz
Silicon valley is hostile to diversity says leslie miley [arstechnica.com] @iayori
Why cities keep growing, corporations and people die, and life gets faster [edge.org]
Hacker who stole 2.9 million credit card numbers is Russian lawmaker’s son [arstechnica.com]
Apple is under fire for “excessive overtime” and illegal working conditions [qz.com]
Why the High Cost of Big-City Living Is Bad for Everyone [newyorker.com]
Show Us the Money. Portrait of financial impunity [we-make-money-not-art.com]
New research shows Europe leads the world in inherited wealth [bloomberg.com]
International Day For The Remembrance Of The Slave Trade And Its Abolition: August 23, 2016 [kathmanduk2.wordpress.com]
How South Africa’s first woman pilot is giving back to young girls [blavity.com]
Ramen noodles 'are most valuable US prison commodity', study finds [bbc.com]
Having attained middle-income status, Vietnam aims higher [economist.com]
Before There Was “Bloody Sunday, There Was the Camilla Massacre [blackthen.com]
Evidence for Africans in Britain from the Bronze Age to the Medieval Period @RowenaMonde [caitlingreen.org]
Madison Washington: Instigated Most Successful Slave Revolt in U.S. History [blackthen.com]
The proto-Aztec bunny farmers of ancient Mexico [arstechnica.com]
Kung Fu, Once Central to Hong Kong Life, Is Waning [nytimes.com]
Forget Yellowstone [guardian.tumblr.com]
After a Hundred Years of the Park Service, What’s Next? [newyorker.com]
Ozzie Simmons: One of the First All-American Football Players Known as “The Ebony Eel” [blackthen.com]
Charles “Charlie” Sampson: First Black Cowboy to Win a World Title in the PRCA @libertymadison [blackthen.com]
Benjamin Montgomery: The Slave Inventor Who Never Received His Due [blackthen.com]
young bruh, pray you reach the age when being jealous of her is like feeling inferior to Amy and Blake -Sid and Nancy
Rudy Van Gelder, Audio Engineer Who Helped Define Sound of Jazz, Has Died [nytimes.com]
Sponge creates steam using ambient sunlight [news.mit.edu]
A Solar-Powered Cooling and Utility Umbrella [core77.com]
Drug companies spend millions to keep charging high prices [latimes.com]
At 25, the World Wide Web Is Still a Long Way From Reality [wired.com]
25 years on, here are the worst predictions about the internet [newstatesman.com]
Nike redesigned its popular running app, and users are very angry [theverge.com]
Magnetic fields steer drug-carrying bacteria deep into cancerous tumours [news.nationalpost.com]
Human-Induced Climate Change Has Been Going On Longer Than You Think [wired.com]
Urbanworld Film Festival Announces 68+ Feature and Short Film Slate for 2016 Edition [shadowandact.com]
Mario Van Peebles’ ‘Solo’ Is 20 Years Old Today. Not Many Similar Films Starring Black Actors Since Then [shadowandact.com]
on the festival circuit this film was called "the planet of junior brown" [amazon.com] @megafunkmega [twitter.com]
Artist Submerges Dress in the Dead Sea for Two Months to Let the Salt Transform It [core77.com]
3 professors launch Center for African American Poetry and Poetics [blavity.com]
this could be a bit heartbreaking for an international Black man of mystery [youtube.com]