“Hundreds of thousands face starvation and death in Africa…” and other Tweeted Links…

Hundreds of thousands face starvation and death in Africa in the growing crisis no one is talking about [ind.pn]

The Golden Arches Theory of Decline | George Monbiot [ow.ly]

The Violent Costs of the Global Palm-Oil Boom - The New Yorker [ow.ly]

.@tonetalks => For Black America Hard Work & College Don’t Close the Wealth Gap [ow.ly]

more and more income accrues via dysfunctional rent-seeking rather than via creating wealth [ow.ly] => @drboycewatkins1

If You Get Rich, You Won't Quit Working For Long - Slashdot [ow.ly]

America Is Failing the Bad-Break Test and [white male] People Are Dying -- Science of Us [ow.ly]

CfP: The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic, 14-15 October… [africainwords.com] [twitter.com]

The AIA's Posthumous Award To Paul Revere Williams - CityLab [ow.ly] => @megafunkmega

S*xual Activity Encouraged Among "Young" Slave Boys and Girls for Breeding | Black Then [ow.ly]

Sarah L. Fraser: One of the First Black Female Doctors in the United States | Black Then [ow.ly]

High on Hitler and Meth: Book Says Nazis Were Fueled by Drugs - The New York Times [ow.ly]

Alexander Crummell: Rationalist of the African-American Enlightenment Thinkers | Black Then [ow.ly]

Black Abolitionists: "Michael, Row The Boat Ashore" An African American Spiritual | Black Then [ow.ly]

Google is not ‘just’ a platform. It frames, shapes and distorts how we see the world | Opinion | The Guardian [ow.ly]

NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say - Slashdot [ow.ly]

Uber employees stalked celebrities, ex employee claims - Business Insider [ow.ly]

Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China - Slashdot [ow.ly]

Japanese City Tags Elderly Dementia Sufferers With Barcodes - Slashdot [ow.ly]

Discover Lincos, the Language a Dutch Mathematician Invented Just to Talk to Extraterrestrials (1960) | Open Culture [ow.ly]

These are the world's most ignorant countries [ind.pn]

chakra color series + gray period collection available dec 20th // sign-up: [eepurl.com] [twitter.com]

N. K. Jemisin Interview by David Barr Kirtley [ow.ly] => @RowenaMonde

Enron (Modern Plays) by Lucy Prebble [ow.ly] [twitter.com]

Reggie Watts: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert [ow.ly]

EHX Reggie Watts explores the new 45000 multi-track looping recorder [ow.ly] => @megafunkmega

Rijksmuseum Digitizes & Makes Free Online 273,000 Works of Art, Masterpieces Included! [goo.gl] [twitter.com]

Techie Working at Home makes Bigger Archive of Historical Newspapers (37 Million Pages) Than the Library of Congress [ow.ly]

The Poem that Foretold Modernism | New Republic [ow.ly] => @RowenaMonde

Audre Lorde Live at UCLA circa early 1990s [ow.ly] => @RowenaMonde, @mreeuh, @iAyori

LANGUAGE OF THE BLUES: Riding The Blinds | American Blues Scene Magazine [ow.ly] => @megafunkmega, @debradevi

@KinteSpace Interesting! FYI the slave trade began when the Fulani invaded the Wolof in 1670 to try to convert them to Islam.

@debradevi How did captives from Africa appear in Virginia in 1619?

@KinteSpace @KinteSpace Yes, 20+ slaves sold in 1619 but it was large influx of 1670 Wolof POWs that kicked off mas… [twitter.com]

@debradevi how many African captives were in the Occident in 1670? 103? Why do Afro-centric scholars call slavery a Columbian idea?

@KinteSpace Don't know! Lemme know what you find out. :)

‘I am utterly disgusted’: Legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki takes AI down a peg - Recode [ow.ly]

So excited to find this! Now to find the prequel😂 [twitter.com]

"People of a Darker Hue" -- a film short by visual artist Carrie Mae Weems [newblackmaninexile.net] [twitter.com]

note: i'm not a christian. but i like reasons to have family get togethers & days off. wish we had more of them rooted in more cultures.

19 signs you've finally turned into an adult [ind.pn]

What are the benefits of a Chase Slate card? I've had it for years now, and I don't really use it. : churning [ow.ly]

(FICO scores 720 to 850) are almost always better off with a 0% introductory rate credit card than a personal loan. [ow.ly]