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One small St. Louis County town is missing dozens of teens [via.fox2now.com] via @fox2now

The police in Puerto Rico just pepper spayed a peaceful gathering. #ParoNacionalPR [twitter.com]

Judge dismisses historic preservation claim to protect Chaco Canyon from drilling [krqe.com]

Yesterday, Seattle, WA City Council proclaimed May 5th a Day of National Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigen… [twitter.com]

Law enforcement groups gave $420,000 to DA deciding whether to bring charges against cops who killed Stephon Clark… [twitter.com]

A Brazilian councilwoman was murdered... now her best friend is being targeted 😢 [twitter.com]

Why Households Need To Earn $300,000 A Year To Live A Middle Class Lifestyle Today [financialsamurai.com] via… [twitter.com]

Dr James Cone: “I realized that for black people to be free, they must first love their blackness.” @NewBlackMan… [twitter.com]

Dr. James Cone, the Father of Black Liberation Theology died in NY on yesterday. The world has lost one of its grea… [twitter.com]

#DYK the ironing board was invented by an African American woman? #OTD in 1892, Sarah Boone patented this ironing b… [twitter.com]

In 1825, Haiti Paid France $21 Billion To Preserve Its Independence -- Time For France To Pay It Back [forbes.com]

Historians broadly agree that lynchings were a method of social and racial control meant to terrorize black America… [twitter.com]

"Don't tell me about the valley of the shadow of death. I live there." ~Mumia Abu-Jamal Former Black Panther, 37-… [twitter.com]

As someone who studied lynching for years and wrote a book about it, I remain astonished & offended at the willingn… [twitter.com]

1619 is an important marker. It’s not the marker. I’m not sure there is a marker. But if there has to be it’s n… [twitter.com]

@ddehewty Other markers:

• 700AD when the Moors invaded Spain
• 550BC when the Greeks invaded Miletus
• The fall o… [twitter.com]

Were the suffragettes terrorists? [acast.com] @FernRiddell

A brief history of U.S. homeownership [getrichslowly.org] via @getrichslowly

Top Professor, Ron Daniels, Retires as Distinguished Lecturer at York College, CUNY [blackstarnews.com]

Black folks are suffering from real live PTSD. We are watching our ppl be brutalized similar to when our ancestors… [twitter.com]

The Racial Politics of Citation -- "The lack of citations of scholars of color furthers racial dominance and forec… [twitter.com]

I should not have read this first thing on a Monday morning. Sigh. Cc @KBDPHD @dorianwarren @DrPhilGoff @esglaude [chronicle.com]

The DOJ is on track to approve a merger between Monsanto and Bayer, which would hand control of 1/4 of the world’s… [twitter.com]

Foxconn Will Drain 7 Million Gallons of Water Per Day From Lake Michigan to Make LCD Screens @slashdot - [rpx.me]

A Hawaiian island got about 50 inches of rain in 24 hours. Scientists warn it's a sign of the future [latimes.com]

State officials: discolored Compton water poses no health risks [abc7.com] via @abc7

CSHL Keynote, Dr. Maiken Nedergaard, University of Rochester Medical Center - YouTube [m.youtube.com]

How Sleep Clears the Brain | National Institutes of Health (NIH) [nih.gov]

A Visual Introduction to Soviet Montage Theory: A Revolution in Filmmaking [goo.gl] [twitter.com]

Novelist Aya de Leon On Book, The Accidental Mistress, and Competition Between Black Women [dangerouslee.biz] [twitter.com]

. @MrChuckD shares his memories of hip hop’s "golden era" before weighing in on the future of the genre. [buff.ly]

Jabo Starks, Drummer for James Brown, Dies at 79 [nyti.ms]

Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘It was a myth that immigrants didn’t want to fit into British society. We weren’t allowed’ [theguardian.com]

“If it (“Jazz”) is accepted as an art, it is the same as any other art. The popularity of it doesn’t matter. It doe… [twitter.com]

Thelonious Monk’s 25 Tips for Musicians (1960) [goo.gl] [twitter.com]

Pajaud: Art + Work New Trailer: [youtu.be] via @YouTube

Read about Fred Moten's consent not to be a single being trilogy in @NewYorker: [newyorker.com] (Stolen Lif… [twitter.com]

Reelblack Podcast - The Cosby Verdict 4/26/2018 [youtube.com] @Reelblack

George Clinton: Life lessons from a funked-up superstar [huckmagazine.com] <= @megafunkmega [twitter.com]

#DYK that banana flowers are edible? Raw or cooked, they are delicious and are used primarily in salads, curries or… [twitter.com]

Starbucks, waffle house, chick-fil-a , etc...these are not NEEDS, my ppl. If you can’t abstain, how the fuck you wa… [twitter.com]

[]( "Salma Seti [SalmaDey]") Between Kanye, Issa, Candace and a slew of other coons, I feel like white supremacy is sending out their lap dogs t… [twitter.com]

Cicely Tyson still knows how to make an entrance. [vogue.cm]

[]( "Keland [kelandx]") Black women really think going to college equals money😭😭 They will see man with a degree & automatically deem him a… [twitter.com]

@kelandx @trueblackpower None of these generalities applied in 1990s Los Angeles as over 200,000 black people were… [twitter.com]

Royal Khemeneut Sovereign person Observe The difference Between Building with concrete And Building with stone On… [twitter.com]

Royal Khemeneut Sovereign person The rational person Divides her food In equal portions🍼🍼 Her one Is the same As… [twitter.com]

Royal Khemeneut Sovereign person The optics👀 Of counting Is symbolized By the harpoon Of the fisher One is pulled… [twitter.com]

@ATLBlackStar Like many, many black people in this situation “we” try to prove to ourselves that “we” have a “choic… [twitter.com]

young bruh, “hotep” is what happens when you Roman-chisel British-imperial vowels into ancient, home-blood consonan… [twitter.com]

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