“The Rise of the Rich Renter” and other Tweeted Links…

The Rise of the Rich Renter - CityLab [citylab.com]

Concentrated Wealth Is Strangling Prosperity [evonomics.com]

Inside the CIA’s black site torture room [theguardian.com]

Paul Kagame’s Fake Pan-Africanism: A Betrayal to Rwanda and Africa [blackstarnews.com] » @BreakingBrown

As a surgeon, I’ve operated on gunshot victims who’ve had bullets tear through their intestines, cut through their… [twitter.com]

[]( "The Hoarse Whisperer [HoarseWisperer]") The man who said he’d run towards gunfire to save kids, ran from kids who have faced gunfire.

Record number of Black women are candidates in Alabama [nbcnews.com] via @nbcnews

"The state of Alabama can take my future. The state of Alabama can take my freedom. But the state of Alabama can’t… [twitter.com]

This visualization of how vast 10.6 million jail admissions in the U.S. each year is jawdropping, heartwrenching, i… [twitter.com]

The bombshell here is that Sheryl Sandberg helped cover up Russian sabotage of Hillary Clinton to preserve Facebook… [twitter.com]

FBI: spends decades tracking the every movement of civil rights activists also FBI: no idea how where to look for… [twitter.com]

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

As you honor my father today, please remember and honor my mother, as well. She was the architect of the King Legac… [twitter.com]

Many people in power, living lives and spreading messages diametrically opposed to Dr. King's, will invoke his name… [twitter.com]

In the academy #MLKDay events become more work for black and brown scholars. IMO an (uncompensated) day of visibili… [twitter.com]

Posting MLK on your social media does not absolve you from ignoring violence against Natives, our allies & press by… [twitter.com]

Rollins Edwards, survivor of secret WWII mustard gas experiments and Summerville black leader, dies | The Post and… [twitter.com]

Searching for the Black Organizational Past -- by @Prof_Wooten [aaihs.org] via @AAIHS @BlkPerspectives [twitter.com]

On 17 January 1961 #PatriceLumumba was executed by a firing squad. His body which was buried on the spot was later… [twitter.com]

the closest we got to #Wakanda was with our #Lumumba but Eisenhower had some murdering to do… [twitter.com]

“A New History of the First Peoples in the Americas” [theatlantic.com]

The Philosophical Appreciation of Rocks in China & Japan: A Short Introduction to an Ancient Tradition [openculture.com]

Driving the “Worst Car Ever Built” (2015) [jalopnik.com]

EPA photos show what US looked like before pollution regulation [businessinsider.com] » @IramiOF

2017 California school test scores: Why are they flatlining? [mercurynews.com] » @khemenutwilhite

The Cavendish banana is under threat from a fungus [washingtonpost.com] » @MindOverMunch, @soulphoodie

Lung Collapses Are a Surprisingly Common Esports Injury [compete.kotaku.com]

Sex, disease, and extinction: what ancient DNA tells us about humans and Neanderthals [theverge.com]

Neanderthal Ancestors May Be To Blame For Why You Can't Get a Tan [science.slashdot.org]

Are humans too aggressive to justify having a Nobel Peace Prize? [blogs.harvard.edu]

Tokyo Is Preparing for Floods ‘Beyond Anything We’ve Seen’ [nytimes.com] » @RowenaMonde, @khemenutwilhite

Vladimir Voevodsky, Revolutionary Mathematician, Dies at 51 [nytimes.com]

A Data-Driven Guide to Becoming a Consistent Billionaire [theartandscienceofdata.wordpress.com]

Bank of America Tops IBM, Payments Firms With Most Blockchain Patents [yro.slashdot.org] => @tonetalks, @taraw

That's one craze i hope doesn't catch on over here ! China’s New Craze - Frontiers in Dystopian Tech… [twitter.com]

After raising millions from 85 angel investors around the world the last five years, I am beyond honored to share… [twitter.com]

Toni Morrison on racism as distraction really cannot be read and re-read enough in these times. To think of all the… [twitter.com]

New feature for @VICESports: Black women were main eventing wrestling shows in the early 50s, and making three time… [twitter.com]

@KinteSpace@megafunkmega Ms. Spencer very generously explains why working with developers of a streaming platform… [twitter.com]

#BITTechTalk ep. 111 w/ DeShuna Spencer - Founder of [kweli.tv] [youtube.com] => @megafunkmega

This Streaming Service Is Changing The Narrative About Black Communities In the Media [forbes.com]… [twitter.com]

.@Seal, his answer to @WonderWomanFilm: the only Love they'll find is paradise [youtube.com] => @RowenaMonde 😇✌🏾✌🏾👁️

BOLT cinebot: can't wait til Hong Kong action get their hands on this: [youtube.com] => @megafunkmega

Novels were never the same after Henry James [irishtimes.com] » @RowenaMonde, @rinceya

The Man Who Forgot He Was a Rap Legend [gq.com]

Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated [blog.archive.org] » @RowenaMonde

One of the best databases on the web for high-resolution Byzantine and pre-modern mosaics is @DumbartonOaks. Take a… [twitter.com]

Last time I rhymed in a Melbourne Arena Prince brought me on stage. #HereWeGoAgain @prophetsofrage

"First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit w… [twitter.com]

What African-American Cookbooks Tell Us About Our Culinary History [bit.ly] [twitter.com]

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