“WalMart closed 63 Sam's Clubs overnight. 11,000 lost their job overnight” and other Tweeted Links…

[]( "JUMbotron [Johnny_U_Miller]") WalMart closed 63 Sam's Clubs overnight. 11,000 lost their job overnight. These employees arrived at the Rochester… [twitter.com]

Inmates in New York can no longer receive donated books, they'll have to buy them. @GonzalezSarahA explains:… [twitter.com]

Florida prisoners prepare to strike, demanding an end to unpaid labor and brutal conditions [interc.pt] by @alicesperi

The gap between the number of blacks and whites in prison is shrinking [pewrsr.ch]

Ethiopia is banning foreign adoptions. (It's one of top 10 countries for adoptions in the U.S.) [lat.ms]

Telling Poor, Smart Kids That All It Takes Is Hard Work to Be as Successful as Their Wealthy Peers Is a Blatant Lie[buff.ly]

Why is liberal California the poverty capital of America? [latimes.com]

‘Move n*gger’: This man’s dog was poisoned, his truck stolen and garage burned all since moving to an Arkansas town… [twitter.com]

Israeli soldiers shoot 3-year-old Palestinian child in the head during West Bank military training exercise [mondoweiss.net]

Rents are declining in Seattle. What mysterious force could explain this? Is it rent control? Zoning restrictions?… [twitter.com]

15-year-old identified as girl killed in South LA shooting near Watts | [abc7.com] [abc7.com]

After the check is gone: The underground economy of rural America [washingtonpost.com] » @BreakingBrown

The Fraternity Paradox: Lower GPA, Higher Incomes [bloomberg.com] » @khemenutwilhite

Half of the US government’s financial assets are student loans? [community.finimize.com] => @tonetalks… [twitter.com]

The Maji Maji Rebellion: Enter Bokero [blackthen.com]

How Marilyn Monroe Helped Break Ella Fitzgerald Into the Big Time (1955) [openculture.com] » @NewBlackMan

Samuel C. Watson: Druggist, Doctor & Civic Leader [blackthen.com]

Why Are So Many Fascist Monuments Still Standing in Italy? [newyorker.com]

100 years ago today, U.S. Marines were occupying Haiti on the orders of Woodrow Wilson. The history of Haiti cannot… [twitter.com]

I need to learn Amharic. Even better, some Ge'ez. And some Somali. Being mistaken for Ethiopian, an Eritrean or a S… [twitter.com]

Christians of Color Are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities [religiondispatches.org]

“You have been in the Congo for 100 years and you have not trained a single doctor or geologist. If we asked you to… [twitter.com]

Black infants in the NICU receive less steroid therapy for lung development, aren’t given human breast milk as ofte… [twitter.com]

California’s deadly hepatitis A outbreak could last years, official says [latimes.com]

Bad news for bees: three-quarters of all honey on Earth has pesticides in it [theverge.com] » @soulphoodie, @MindOverMunch

Modern Footwear Design Makes Us Use Our Feet "Backwards" From How We Should [core77.com]

Deep, buried ‘nearly pure ice’ glaciers spotted on Mars[japantimes.co.jp]

A recent @PewResearch survey suggest that a majority of American Fathers (63%) believe that they spend too little t… [twitter.com]

e.e. cummings [twitter.com]

2017 Nobel Prize Winner: I left science because of lack of funding [qz.com] » @BreakingBrown

Enter the The Cornell Hip Hop Archive: A Vast Digital Collection of Hip Hop Photos, Posters & More [openculture.com]

How Ta-Nehisi Coates Gives Whiteness Power [nytimes.com] » @BreakingBrown, @NewBlackMan

Couple Sues Neighbors for $2.5 Million for Copying Their House's Architecture [core77.com] » @RowenaMonde

Reason I canceled my trip to London was that I don't like that my fave synth the Roland JP4 which cost me £650 in 1… [twitter.com]

West African Soups: When Chicken Noodle Gets Boring [nyti.ms] [twitter.com]

ancient Africa: ideas anthropomorphized into human figures served as symbols to make real people heroes modern Afr… [twitter.com]

Did You Know Felisha From 'Friday' Owns And Runs A Vegan Cafe? [bit.ly] via @blavity [twitter.com]

[]( "Matthew Schneck [matthew_schneck]") Today I got arrested for feeding the homeless in Wells Park in El Cajon. The City of El Cajon has made it illegal t… [twitter.com]

Trump loves Norway because we grow his hair. [twitter.com]

[]( "Leslie McKinney [lalmamack]") Do Women Really Support One Another? 10 Successful Business Women Speak Out [huffingtonpost.com] via @HuffPostBlog

For Colored Girls in Their 30s and 40s Who Feel Like Life May Have Passed Them By [theglowup.theroot.com]

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