“What’s causing famine in Africa? [a cocktail of corruption]” and other Tweeted Links…

What's causing famine in Africa? [a cocktail of corruption] [youtube.com]

The Stream - Sexual harassment in the workplace - YouTube [youtube.com] @mmbilal, @FemiOke » @iAyori

Peter Temin: Economic Mobility Requires the Nearly Impossible - The Atlantic [theatlantic.com] « @tonetalks, @BreakingBrown

Economist Says Most of Billionaire Wealth Is Unearned [evonomics.com]

New York Contractor Arrested for Shortchanging Workers by $700,000 [blackstarnews.com] » @BreakingBrown

Blacks with no criminal record have same sucess geting jobs as whites out prison [nytimes.com] » @tonetalks, @IramiOF

Death of Suburbia series overview - Business Insider [businessinsider.com]

.@Forbes “Americans with good jobs live in a socialist welfare state” [forbes.com] » @BreakingBrown

What it looks like when a rattlesnake bites an uninsured American: [twitter.com]

“I invented the web. Here are three things we need to change to save it” [theguardian.com] » @RowenaMonde, @rinceya, @NewBlackMan

Meet Silicon Valley's Secretive Alt-Right Followers | Mother Jones [motherjones.com]

How the CIA Forgot the Art of Spying [politico.com]

Why More Black Folk Should be A Part of NYC's Juvenile Justice System Reform [blackstarnews.com] » @NewBlackMan, @tonetalks

Canadian Millennials Struggle As College Degrees Don't Guarantee Jobs - Slashdot [news.slashdot.org] » @IramiOF

Behind China’s $1 Trillion Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order. [nytimes.com]

Mahmoud El-Kati: Educator, Activist, Lecturer, Writer & Commentator [blackthen.com] » @NewBlackMan

Jack L. Cooper: First African-American Radio Broadcaster, Known as the “Radio Mogul” | Black Then [blackthen.com]

The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care [newyorker.com] » @tonetalks, @BreakingBrown

This is why I work from home and refuse to go into campus.[inc.com]

@JamesMontemagno working from home helps (eventually) to develop a civic life outside of the plantation -now who would not want that?

What does it mean to be human? Analysing the genetics of ancient humans [mosaicscience.com]

Apple To Start Treating Cobalt Mined In The Democratic Republic Of Congo As A Conflict Mineral [iafrikan.com] » @iAyori

The amount of images in circulation affects our ability to understand them [reallifemag.com]

U.S. Subprime Auto Loan Losses Reach Highest Level Since the Financial Crisis [bloomberg.com] » @tonetalks, @IramiOF

“'We Didn't Lose Control Of Our Personal Data -- It Was Stolen From Us By People Farmers'” [tech.slashdot.org] » @IramiOF

California launches new website to measure progress of schools, districts | [abc7.com] [abc7.com]

82% of Kids in 'Netflix Only' Homes Have No Idea What Commercials Are [entertainment.slashdot.org]

Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 Hour Rule for deliberate practice is wrong [slate.com]

Map Shows the Animal Most Likely to Kill You in Each State [wideopencountry.com]

In the Future, We’ll All Wear Spider Silk [newyorker.com] » @Nnedi, @Nalo_Hopkinson, @digitalafrican

Oh my god. Just spent five hours helping my 13 year old with his homework. What is wrong w/ schools? 8 hours IN sch… [twitter.com]

It seems ridiculous to spend so much time after school doing work without support from a professional teacher. All I see is frustration.

Gordon Parks & Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man recognized in the @pdnonline Photo Annual 2017 [twitter.com]

Today my 1997 book Fight The Power releases with new updatedchapter en espanol for SouthAmerica . Headed to press c… [twitter.com]

The Writer Who Uncovered the Nazis’ Drug Use - The New Yorker [newyorker.com]

Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions” [medium.com] » @RowenaMonde

“Eurocentric modernist” thinking is exploding [ineteconomics.org] » @NewBlackMan, @digitalafrican

.@Reelblack interviews Star Child [youtube.com] ga-ga goo gaah ga-ga goo ga-gaah « @megafunkmega #mothership 👽👁️🕶️

How Did Beethoven Compose His 9th Symphony After He Went Completely Deaf? [openculture.com]

As Braille Literacy Declines, Reading Competitions Held to Boost Interest [npr.org] » @RowenaMonde

Boudin: A Story Of Sausage, Slavery And Rebellion In The Caribbean [n.pr] [twitter.com]

young bruh, the circumstances around me saying ‘I make more money than all of them put together’ is always sad, pathetic