“Niger Delta villagers lose UK court bid to sue Shell over pollution” and other Tweeted Links…

[]( "Mamady Seydi [Galsenvois]") Niger Delta villagers lose UK court bid to sue Shell over pollution - [bbc.co.uk]

All of Donald Trump's Business Ties in One Overwhelming Visualization | WIRED [wired.com] » @YvetteDC, @tonetalks

[]( "BlackInformant [BlackInformant]") White Brazilians Don’t Want to Accept Their Racism In Controversy Over African Head Wraps [theintercept.com]

The US Is Opening Its First "Safe Injection Facility" For Heroin Addicts - BuzzFeed News [buzzfeed.com]

THE RACIST WHITE WOMAN | BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS [kathmanduk2.wordpress.com]

[]( "mello [3yeAmHe]") "It is a giant stride away from liberation. No Black capitalist can function unless he plays the white man’s game." - Huey P. Newton

Ella Baker: The "Backbone" of the Civil Rights Movement | Black Then [blackthen.com]

Cherokee Nation Denies Rightful Heritage to Some African-Americans: Lucy Allen's Story | Black Then [blackthen.com]

FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER LUMUMBA'S ASSASSINATION, CONGOLESE SEE NO RELIEF | Black Star News [blackstarnews.com]

GEORGIA POLICE CHIEF APOLOGIZES 76 YEARS AFTER LYNCHING | BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS [kathmanduk2.wordpress.com]

Stanford historian uncovers a grim correlation between violence and inequality over the millennia | Stanford News [news.stanford.edu]

One can't have a mutual, loving relationship with a person he "owns." Sally Hemings was a survivor, not a mistress. [n.pr]

"Black Financial Fantasies" are real @NickCannon Please share [mobile.eurweb.com]💯👌🏿💰🤷🏿‍♂️via @eurweb… [twitter.com]

[]( "mello [3yeAmHe]") "Black capitalism is a hoax. Black capitalism is represented as a great step toward Black liberation. It isn’t." - Huey P. Newton

Special Report: New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess | World Chess [worldchess.com]

Google Earnings Reveal $3.6 Billion Lost On 'Moonshots' In 2016 - Slashdot [tech.slashdot.org]

Cliffski's Blog | Time for the ‘teenage coding god’ meme to die [positech.co.uk] » @Odytrice, @iAyori

After a century of failing to crack an ancient script, linguists turn to machines - The Verge [theverge.com]

Sony Warns It Will Take $1 Billion Writedown As DVD Sales Declines - Slashdot [tech.slashdot.org] » @megafunkmega

“Science curious” more likely to explore data contradicting their world view | Ars Technica [arstechnica.com] » @RowenaMonde @YvetteDC

Why Succeeding Against the Odds Can Make You Sick - The New York Times [nytimes.com] » @iAyori, @digitalafrican

Five-month-old babies know what’s funny | Aeon Ideas [aeon.co] [big babies..] => @khemenutwilhite

Tech Creation & Corporate Survival: Why the Shutdown of Vine Matters - Tech Ladder [thetechladder.com] » @YvetteDC, @digitalafrican

New organisms have been formed using the first ever 6-letter genetic code - ScienceAlert [sciencealert.com]

More than one million people will work from coworking spaces in 2017 | Deskmag | Coworking [deskmag.com]

Scientists unveil new form of matter: Time crystals | EurekAlert! Science News [eurekalert.org] » @Nalo_Hopkinson, @digitalafrican

Why We Hear Voices in Random Noise - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus [nautil.us] » @HumptyFunk, @digitalafrican

R.I.P. to the 'funky drummer' - Clyde Stubblefield - from the entire PE family. [twitter.com]

"most sampled in Hip-Hop History?" How about Pop Music History: [rollingstone.com] #RIP #CydeStubblefield

Rest In Beats for real Mr Clyde [twitter.com]

Sci-fi converges w/ Canada's hidden history of slavery in Camille Turner's art. More in this post supported by @RBC… [twitter.com]

Black History in Its Own Words by Ron Wimberly [ @RaynardFaux ] [amazon.com] » @NewBlackMan,… [twitter.com]

Interview: Filmmaker Raoul Peck on His Oscar-Nominated ‘I Am Not Your Negro,’ [shadowandact.com]

Meet Theda Bara, the First “Vamp" of Cinema, Who Revealed the Erotic Power of the Movies | Open Culture [openculture.com]

SAND DRAWINGS FROM VANUATU [youtube.com] « @digitalafrican

Tchokwe Cosmology and the Lusona Cosmogram [youtube.com] « @digitalafrican

Bibliomania: the strange history of compulsive book buying | Books | The Guardian [theguardian.com] » @ReadEngDee, @rinceya

The Race to Weaponize Empathy - Global Guerrillas [globalguerrillas.typepad.com] » @Nalo_Hopkinson, @RowenaMonde

The Osmonds - "One Bad Apple" [youtube.com] « @digitalafrican [just for those who will never know the Jackson 5]

I'm one mediocre yet inexplicably bestselling novel away from retiring.

[]( "soulphoodie [soulphoodie]") Appetite For Change: Youth Rapping About Growing Food Is Awesome! [VIDEO] [bit.ly] via @blackdoctor [twitter.com]

The real reason why American chocolate tastes so terrible | Daily Mail Online [dailymail.co.uk] » @soulphoodie, @MindOverMunch

young bruh, I’m a late-40-something, above-average Black man with the finances of an average white man in his early 30s » @tonetalks

Getting %50 discounts on domestic flights with Ethiopian Airlines [lonelyplanet.com] => @OneikaTraveller, @AdlibTraveller

young bruh, she confused “protecting” with spoiling a boy that will grow up to be the type of “man” she hates #feministirony

young bruh, they will come at you with corrective language until there is nothing easy to school you with ..then, they leave you very alone

young bruh, having a “middle class” income is just like living at home as a kid in a relatively functional household #possiblynonclimactic

young bruh, it’s a media tradition to follow up the “black” episode with a ridiculously white one -for liberal “balance” and “inclusivity”

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