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“We Need to Nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon” [theguardian.com] » @BreakingBrown

Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals [latimes.com] » @BreakingBrown

Oklahoma isn't working. Can anyone fix this failing American state? [theguardian.com]

“India demonetisation fails to purge black money” [ft.com]

How Diversity Branding Hurts Diversity [medium.com]

Institutional Racism Unraveled By Andile Ngcaba At Dimension Data [iafrikan.com]

A Muslim PhD student gets targeted as a security risk; now he wants to know why [features.crosscut.com]

BREAKING: We won! Court finds New Orleans debtors’ prison scheme unconstitutional because it fails to consider a po… [twitter.com]

"There has been a curious lack of support for" Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi "from Western feminist groups, huma… [twitter.com]

Tough Times for Conservative Income Investors [mymoneyblog.com]

In case it didn't click, last night in Alabama is why the entire Republican party works incredibly hard to keep bla… [twitter.com]

My wife's nurse had to stand for 30 mins & administer a drug slowly through a syringe because there are almost no I… [twitter.com]

Dont let Yvette Carnell or anyone else fool you. Black immigrants are not competition. They are not even allies. Th… [twitter.com]

George McLaurin, first African-American student admitted to the University of Oklahoma, forced to sit apart from wh… [twitter.com]

Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865: Roots of the Rebellion [blackthen.com]

Walter Moses Burton: First Black Elected Sheriff in the United States [blackthen.com]

Alice Dugged Cary: Librarian of Atlanta’s First Public Library for African Americans [blackthen.com]

[Podcast] From Slavery to Sovereignty with Gerald Horne [panafricanalliance.com]

Ethnic Studies Restrictions Were Deemed Unconstitutional, Here’s Why That Matters [cassiuslife.com] via @CassiusLife_

Artist Stan Douglas: why I restaged the London riots [repeatingislands.com] [twitter.com]

S. Allen Counter’s Mission to Desegregate History Itself -- He walked in the footsteps of a Black explorer who was… [twitter.com]

America's opioid epidemic began more than a century ago – with the civil war[theguardian.com]

The Havoc of Less -- "Huey Newton’s theory of intercommunalism reminds us not to lose sight of the everyday over t… [twitter.com]

The fascinating reason why a dentist is not just a special kind of doctor, but another profession entirely… [twitter.com]

In the 19th century, women were dying to nail that rosy-cheeked look of a consumptive on their deathbed. [hyperallergic.com]

Houston floods show risks of ignoring science and letting developers run rampant [qz.com]

What’s warping the faces of monkeys in Uganda? [theverge.com]

People Are Using Old Laptop Batteries to Build Their Own Versions of Powerwall [futurism.com]

Ex-NASA Scientist James Hansen: There is a Clear Link Between Climate Change & Stronger Hurricanes [democracynow.org]

China is forcing internet companies to end online anonymity [theverge.com]

Michigan Avenue’s new flagship Apple store is struggling to cope with Chicago’s harsh winters… [twitter.com]

The image of the "magical negro" or the "mammy" figure who rescues white people in their time of distress is a very… [twitter.com]

A Black Architect Has Finally Won the Highest American Award for Architecture—Posthumously [citylab.com]

Uncovering Somalia's forgotten music of the 1970s [aljazeera.com]

Read 1,000 Editions of the The Village Voice: A Digital Archive of the Iconic New York City Paper [openculture.com]

The significance of plot without conflict (2012) [stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com] » @RowenaMonde

Book Review - Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun [youtube.com] @ReadEngDee » @RowenaMonde

great to see FREEWAY: CRACK IN THE SYSTEM on @netflix <= @tonetalks => @BreakingBrown @ava @megafunkmega @floydwebb… [twitter.com]

In 1966, at the first World Black Festival of Arts and Culture in Dakar, #CheikhAntaDiop and #WEBDuBois were named… [twitter.com]

Calling all Black poets 21 years of age and older: there is ONE WEEK LEFT to apply to the 2018 Cave Canem Retreat!… [twitter.com]

Stream 72 Hours of Ambient Sounds from Blade Runner: Relax, Go to Sleep in a Dystopian Future.… [twitter.com]

Factoid: Pink Floyd's David Gilmour and Syd Barrett used Seeger’s guide to learn how to play guitar. [twitter.com]

Sure, Ta-Nehisi Coates is no James Baldwin. This is no slight. Only James Baldwin is James Baldwin, who in my o… [twitter.com]

[]( "Yasmin Yonis [YasminYonis]") I’m at an age where I know I don’t like going out, especially when it’s cold, and that a perfect night is good food… [twitter.com]

[]( "BlackInformant [BlackInformant]") Chocolate is on track to go extinct in 40 years [standard.co.uk]

the disagreement sent to @tanehisicoates from @CornelWest is an event encased in Negritude, considered by me irrele… [twitter.com]

Can You Get Enough Choline On A Vegan Or Raw Food Diet? [youtube.com] » @sweetpotatosoul

Maybe Don’t “Pivot To Video” Unless You Want To Pivot To Food Video [fastcompany.com] » @megafunkmega

[]( "THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOU. STICK TO THE CODE. ♠💀🇳🇬 [JohnnyACE562]") Niggas don't wanna be Pro-Black because it involves putting the collective group above themselves. That's why they… [twitter.com]

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