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Little To No Punishment For Prison Staff Charged With Crimes [tinyurl.com]

An Epidemic Of ‘Modern-Day Redlining’ [tinyurl.com] via @state_of_things

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We obtained the chat logs of Atomwaffen, a notorious white supremacist group. When a member was charged with killin… [twitter.com]

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[]( "Margo Natalie Crawford [BlackPostBlack]") 1971 Dr. James H. Cone speaks at seminar on African American theology an... [youtu.be] via @YouTube

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What a rare and special home we share. One of Earth’s strangest and most unique features, its moving crust, might b… [twitter.com]

Mapped: 18 places in LA where black architects left their mark: [la.curbed.com] via @CurbedLA

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, the most popular physics book ever written, is now completely online - the 3 volum… [twitter.com]

World's first ocean plastic clean-up machine set to launch [independent.co.uk]

UCLA prof develops algorithms to hunt Black and Brown people [theverge.com]

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Ostracised and fetishised: The perils of travelling as a young black woman [bbc.in]

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Peggy Cooper Cafritz: "A Civil-Rights Visionary’s Collection of Artists of Color" [thecut.com] via @thecut

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Aldous Huxley Tells Mike Wallace What Will Destroy Democracy: Overpopulation, Drugs & Insidious Technology (1958)… [twitter.com]

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Julian Mayfield, star of the 1968 classic Up Tight, was also the author of three novels. Read about his life and li… [twitter.com]

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Nine decades after Zora Neale Hurston wrote Barracoon, about the final slave-ship survivor, the book will be releas… [twitter.com]

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FAU professor Steven Smith Opens Vegan Fine Foods™, an Exclusively Plant-Based Gourmet Grocery and Dine-In / Take-O… [twitter.com]

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