“she lost everything to Matthew” and other Tweeted Links…

she lost everything to Matthew [youtube.com]

1 Million in Haiti Urgently Need Humanitarian Assistance After Hurricane's "Apocalyptic Destruction" [democracynow.org]

Haitian-descended NFL players personally deliver supplies to Haiti [youtube.com]

Human-caused climate change has doubled western US forest fire area [buff.ly]

CIA ‘Siren Servers’ can predict social uprisings 3-5 days in advance [sociable.co]

ISIS Is Using Exploding Consumer Drones To Kill Enemy Fighters [news.slashdot.org]

The Londoners Who Offer Free Rent for Sexual Favours [londonist.com]

The remarkable thing that happens to poor kids when you help parents with rent [washingtonpost.com]

Uganda: Why Museveni’S Dream To Transform Economy To Middle Income Status Is Failing. [blackstarnews.com]

New research suggests that social mobility in America may be more limited [washingtonpost.com]

Freelancers Now Make Up 35% of U.S. Workforce [forbes.com]

Only One In Three Afrikans Trust The Bodies Tasked With Running Elections To Do Their Job Properly [iafrikan.com]

While Afrika Has The Potential To Produce More Power Than It Needs, Half Of The Continent Still Lacks Electricity [iafrikan.com]

Survey shows half of black millennials face job discrimination [blavity.com]

Lonnie Carmon: First African-American to Fly an Aircraft in Central Ohio [blackthen.com]

Harold Cruse: Outspoken Social Critic, Teacher of African American Studies [blackthen.com]

October 10, 1955: The U.S. Supreme Court Ordered College Admission For Autherine Lucy [buff.ly]

What 18th-Century Paris Sounded Like [buff.ly]

Why Women Pretended to Be Creepy Rocks and Trees in NYC Parks During WWI | Atlas Obscura [ow.ly]

Monks Who Spent Years Turning Themselves into Mummies While Alive [atlasobscura.com]

Brain waves can be used to detect potentially harmful personal information [sciencebulletin.org]

Big Soda sponsored 96 health groups – a big conflict of interest, study says [washingtonpost.com]

How France's TV5 was almost destroyed by hackers [bbc.co.uk]

Google Releases An Open Source Font That Supports 800 Languages [tech.slashdot.org]

Kenyans Are Calling More And Texting Less As Over-the-Top Services Become More Widespread [iafrikan.com]

Explaining the enduring popularity of midcentury modern design [fastcodesign.com]

Why Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Is an Epic Triumph [shadowandact.com]

Revisiting Chris Rock’s ‘Good Hair’ on Its 7th Birthday (Released Today in History, Oct. 9, 2009) [shadowandact.com]

“sensitivity training” from almost a decade before i was born [youtube.com] @Reelblack

The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin [newyorker.com]

BBC Announces ‘Black and British’ – Season of Programming Celebrating Black People in the UK (Preview) [shadowandact.com]

BBC Four Acquires UK Premiere of Emmy-Nominated, 4-Part ‘Roots’ Reboot from A+E Networks [shadowandact.com]

World Premiere of ‘BlaxploItalian’ – Blacks in Italian film doc – at Rome Film Festival, 10/14 [buff.ly]

GOJIRA took us beyond stop motion for the sake of speed [youtube.com] @megafunkmega

Robert N. Dett: Combined European Romantic Composers Music with African-American Spirituals [blackthen.com]

21st-century dancehall with Rihanna and the goat the lank [buff.ly] @theenerdwriter

How Miles Davis pioneered studio editing with On The Corner [ow.ly]

how to beat up almost anybody with confronting racism through comedy [youtube.com] @Reelblack @JudahWorldChamp

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