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Black Women Now the Most Educated Group in US [theroot.com] via @TheRoot

Trump’s bombing of Syria without authorization from Congress violates the Constitution, just like it did a year ago. [aclu.org]

[]( "Krishan Kovpan [holist]") @democracynow: "It’s a sad state of affairs that even with the videotapes nowadays, you rarely get justice." -… [twitter.com]

The #OnePercent war on the #NinetyNinePercet Nearly 4 People Are Evicted Every Minute: New Project Tracks U.S. Evic… [twitter.com]

"HUD says it doesn’t have the funds to fix up two public housing developments in Thebes, Illinois. The state’s two… [twitter.com]

'Chicago's secret, massive Gang Database criminalizes entire communities of color; identifying & cataloging suspect… [twitter.com]

White people abandon diverse neighborhoods for racial, not economic reasons [qz.com] via @qz

[]( "BlackInformant [BlackInformant]") A House You Can Buy, But Never Own [theatlantic.com]

Afro-Brazilian community activist found dead a month after #MarielleFranco assassination [bit.ly] [twitter.com]

Has been one month since Marielle Franco and Anderson Gomes were assassinated in Brazil. Tomorrow Brazilian activis… [twitter.com]

[]( "Milam [SkinnyMilam]") Mother is at work. Father is deployed in Syria. Kid misses his school bus so he goes to a neighbor's house for hel… [twitter.com]

Calling Puerto Rico "Trump's Katrina" actually undersells it by quite a bit. This is an enormous, slow-motion human… [twitter.com]

In Flint, Residents Scramble To Get The Last Cases Of State-Provided Bottled Water [buff.ly] [twitter.com]

Israel confirms authenticity of video showing soldiers rejoicing after shooting Palestinian | DW… [twitter.com]

🇵🇸 Palestinian shot by sniper in viral video speaks out | Al Jazeera Eng... [youtu.be] <= @mmbilal

Best Interest Rates on Cash - April 2018 [mymoneyblog.com] via @mymoneyblog

In the 1950s, a teacher in California could get a house where the annual payments were 14% of their salary. Now th… [twitter.com]

Untold story of how the U.S government used redlining and other tactics to create Black ghettos. [twitter.com]

41% percent of Americans cannot say what Auschwitz was, a survey found [nyti.ms]

Although the Atlantic slave trade had been banned, pirates and human traffickers off the coast of Texas kept the sa… [twitter.com]

Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, documents EJI’s multi-year investigation into lynchin… [twitter.com]

Police fatally shoot knife-wielding man at Baldwin Hills mall [latimes.com]

How tech companies own your day. As tech companies mature, they’re seeking new ways to generate revenue from each c… [twitter.com]

[]( "Ⓥ VeggieBae🌸 [__sunchild]") This is what’s happening in the Dominican Republic right now. This will soon be a reality everywhere if we don’t ch… [twitter.com]

93% of bottled water tested contained microplastics: Study | CBC News [cbc.ca]

A massive, 'semi-infinite' trove of rare-earth metals has been found in Japan [cnb.cx]

The current social media business model is incompatible with human rights. [iafrikan.com]

Download 200+ Modern Art Books from the Guggenheim Museum. Expensive art books, now free. [bit.ly] [twitter.com]

Mœbius & Jodorowsky’s Sci-Fi Comic, The Incal, Brought to Life in a Tantalizing Animation [goo.gl] [twitter.com]

Copyrights Will Expire for 35 Silent Films By Charlie Chaplin, Cecil B. DeMille, Buster Keaton, and More [indiewire.com]

[]( "Adeniyi Ogunfowoke [Sleeksavvy]") We Want To Be The Kindle of Africa-Magnus Okeke, Chief Customer Service Mechanic, OkadaBooks… [twitter.com]

Chinua Achebe's Book Among 12 'Greatest Books Ever Written' [allafrica.com] #Nigeria [twitter.com]

Five Fingers for Marseilles - Why You Need to Watch this Movie [allafrica.com] #SouthAfrica [twitter.com]

Charlie Murphy and Rick James, circa 1980's. [twitter.com]

[]( "bjgreville [bjgreville]") Another incident of plagiarism and book theft on #Amazon [extremetech.com] #writerslife #amwriting #Kindle

Yvonne Staples, Member and Manager of the Staple Singers, Dies at 80 [nyti.ms]

This morning in Lower Manhattan someone put a life sized, fake Putin on the Wall Street Bull and covered it with di… [twitter.com]

Next Thursday, come celebrate the recent publications of new work by three extraordinary Cave Canem poets. Safia El… [twitter.com]

in the 49th mufukkin minute of episode #200 @MaronzioVance reveals who looks like an overweight henchman from Meteo… [twitter.com]

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The Revolutionary Genius of Cecil Taylor [newyorker.com]

Take back the control of your videos… A decentralized video hosting network, based on free/libre software… [twitter.com]

Leimert Park Block Party showcases amazing Black-owned food trucks - Los Angeles Standard Newspaper… [twitter.com]

Black Farmers Reviving Their African Roots: We Are Feeding Our Liberation | via Civil Eats [civileats.com]

There are good people in the academy. But the academy is not a good place. One should not feel “impostor syndrome”…… [twitter.com]

Having toxic parents or a toxic family is more challenging than those with relatively functional families can imagi… [twitter.com]

I no longer watch the @NFL . Brother @Kaepernick7 isn’t employed there because more of us haven’t decided to. These… [twitter.com]

A guy I was dating said to me: "You have an apartment, a job & your s**t together. What do you need me for?" Do me… [twitter.com]

@ReelTalker The greatest compliment a woman can pay to a man like me is effectively saying, "I don't need your mone… [twitter.com]

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