“Ryan Coogler Turns down offer to join The Motion Picture Academy” and other Tweeted Links…

Ryan Coogler Turns down offer to join The Motion Picture Academy (But do you agree?) [shadowandact.com]

Angelina Jolie Divorces Brad Pitt As World Continues to Crumble Around Them [wired.com]

It Took a Couple Decades, But the Music Business Looks Like It's Okay Again [entertainment.slashdot.org]

Trailer Premiere: New 4K ‘Battle of Algiers’ Restoration (Set for USA Theatrical Run) [shadowandact.com]

Award-Winning Short Film ‘Papa Machete’ Now Online (On the art of Haitian Machete Fencing) [shadowandact.com] @megafunkmega

Elmore James: Most Influential Slide Guitarist of the Postwar Period [blackthen.com]

Netflix plans to make half of its content original programming [arstechnica.com] @megafunkmega

interview with the lovely Lisa Fischer [youtube.com] @lisafischersing <= @BryanWilhite

.@mynameismarines reads "ready player one" so you don't have to [youtube.com]

on Kindle: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America [amazon.com] [twitter.com]

Director Charles Burnett Talks In-depth About ‘The Glass Shield’ – His Most Explicitly Political Film [shadowandact.com]

MoMA Will Make Thousands of Exhibition Images Available Online [nytimes.com]

The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art [newyorker.com]

Student is almost pulled from desk, receives death threats after not standing for pledge [blavity.com]

“Students are not hard-wired to learn in different ways” [theconversation.com]

Kindergarteners Today Get Little Time To Play, and It's Stunting Their Development [science.slashdot.org]

What San Francisco Says About America [nytimes.com]

69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings Accounts [gobankingrates.com]

After key donations, GOP tried to keep poisoned kids from suing lead makers [arstechnica.com]

Holocaust Survivor: Trump Jr.'s Skittles Comment Brings Back Dark Images of Children Being Murdered [democracynow.org]

Walter Moses Burton: First Black Elected Sheriff in the United States [blackthen.com]

the Somali-Americans in St. Cloud [youtube.com] @ajh_books

Robot Snatches Rifle From Barricaded Suspect, Ends Standoff [hardware.slashdot.org]

In India, a Rich Food Culture Vanishes from the Train Tracks [npr.org]

Want to know how many times ancient humans migrated out of Africa? Check their genes [theverge.com]

Norway plans to cull more than two-thirds of its wolf population [theguardian.com]

If You Build a Censorship Machine, They Will Come [eff.org]

LIT History: Jesse Brown, a forgotten man from a forgotten war [blavity.com]

Mary Burnett Talbert: Civil Rights Advocate, Called “The Best Known Colored Woman in the United States” [blackthen.com]

Valve bans developer from Steam after it sues customers over bad reviews [arstechnica.com]

Dear Tech Companies: Focus on Diversity, Not Foosball [wired.com]

One of the world’s oldest biblical texts read for the first time [arstechnica.com]

W.E.B. Du Bois Creates Revolutionary, Artistic Data Visualizations Showing the Economic Plight of African-Americans [openculture.com]

World’s most valuable dye existed in Peru 1,800 years before anywhere else [arstechnica.com]

Barbara Johns: Led the First School Walkout of Its Kind in Farmville, Virginia [blackthen.com]

Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of the on-demand economy [qz.com]

California Has a Staggering Amount of Pension Debt [bizjournals.com]

California removes limit on carpool access for plug-in hybrids [greencarreports.com]

Apple Japan Unit Ordered To Pay $118M Tax For Underreporting Income [apple.slashdot.org]

Japan has a worrying number of virgins, government finds [independent.co.uk]

First Black Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Organized in 1853 by a Freed Slave [blackthen.com]

What they didn’t tell you about the black barber in America [blavity.com] @blavity

5 Tips to stay mentally healthy in corporate America [blavity.com] @blavity

50 Years After Vehicle Safety Victory, Ralph Nader Talks "Silent Violence" by Corporations [democracynow.org]

Tesla Model S depreciates less, holds value better than most cars (not just electric cars) [greencarreports.com]

Why Africa gets filthiest diesel fuel: little regulation, global traders [greencarreports.com]

Drivers waste money on premium gas, AAA research finds [abc7.com]

Distant languages have similar sounds for common words [economist.com]

Bats are adapting their hunting strategies to the noise of our cities [theverge.com]

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