“Black people aren’t keeping white Americans out of college. Rich people are” and other tweeted links…

Black people aren't keeping white Americans out of college. Rich people are [washingtonpost.com]

As Downtown Detroit Gentrifies, Longtime Black Residents Fight Illegal Tax Foreclosures [democracynow.org] » @breakingbrown

Wells Fargo Sued Again For Misbilling Car Owners And Veterans [news.slashdot.org]

Our Broken Economy, in One Simple Chart [nytimes.com]

Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions [bloomberg.com]

Is it still safe to live in polluted New Delhi? - The Stream @FemiOke [youtube.com]

SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street [sfchronicle.com]

“Can we wean Elon Musk off government support already?” [thehill.com] » @breakingbrown

Why Germans pay cash for almost everything [qz.com]

'You'll never work again': women tell how sexual harassment broke their careers[theguardian.com]

FBI Faked an Entire Field of Forensic Science Justice Dept & FBI have formally acknowledged nearly every examiner i… [twitter.com]

FRANCE: Crowds gather in Paris to protest against the modern slave trade in Libya 🇫🇷 🇱🇾 [twitter.com]

In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, aged 13-15, were held in a stockade for two months. Their crime:… [twitter.com]

Why Won’t China Help With North Korea? Remember 1956 | ChinaFile [chinafile.com]

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America… [twitter.com]

Hendrik Witbooi: National Hero of Namibia [blackthen.com]

Cuba 1843: La Negra Carlota’s Assault on Matanzas [blackthen.com]

India wasn't the first place Sanskrit was recorded – it was Syria [scroll.in]

The Rise and Fall of the Associated Negro Press: Claude Barnett's Pan-African News and the Jim Crow Paradox… [twitter.com]

The incentives of academia naturally select for less reliable results (2016) [theatlantic.com]

The real secret to Asian American success was not education - The Washington Post [washingtonpost.com] « @breakingbrown

Some dung beetles have taken to decapitating millipedes [bbc.com]

Apple’s first head of diversity is leaving after less than a year by @eshelouise [qz.com] via @qz

25,000+ 78RPM Records Now Professionally Digitized & Streaming Online: A Treasure Trove of Early 20th Century Music [openculture.com]

Legendary Bassist Larry Graham Explains How His Iconic Right Hand Slapping Technique Came to Be [laughingsquid.com] » @megafunkmega

Ghana’s first satellite now orbiting earth [techcrunch.com]

There is no such thing as EQ (2016) [quora.com]

This is how Big Oil will die [shift.newco.co]

As a Woman in Tech, I Realized: These Are Not My People [bloomberg.com]

An attack of carnivorous Sea Fleas at a Melbourne beach [theage.com.au]

Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite [nautil.us]

Children work in Congolese mines where cobalt is extracted for smartphones [news.sky.com]

I propose a new reason for retirement: to live w/o tech so that we're not constantly bombarded w/ notifications fro… [twitter.com]

How a translation of Harriet Jacobs’ 19th-century memoir, Incidents in the Life of a Slave-Girl, became a surprise… [twitter.com]

Two science-fiction authors say they're being used as proxies in a fandom culture war [theverge.com]

the #dearwhitepeople concept betrays youthful ignorance of the Dubois-era “talented tenth” appeal to white power to… [twitter.com]

young bruh, how do some children react knowing everyone is calling their absentee, theiving, rapist father a “great… [twitter.com]

Dont be fooled by Black people who study Black Liberation as an academic topic, but don't really want freedom for Black people.

Unlearning the myth of American innocence [theguardian.com]