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‘The Gig Economy’ Is the New Term for Serfdom [truthdig.com]

Walmart is raising wages, but its plans to use more gig labor and automation put workers at a disadvantage,… [twitter.com]

Virtually nowhere in the United States do black boys grow up to earn incomes equivalent to white boys raised in the… [twitter.com]

Judge Suspends Release of Herman Bell, Elderly Black Panther Jailed 45 Years, Amid Police Pressure [democracynow.org] via @democracynow

Ten years after Brown v. Board of Education, King condemned how little had changed in the nation's classrooms… [twitter.com]

For @harpersbazaarus I interviewed Sandra Oh, who's found a role that's empowered her unlike any other on the amazi… [twitter.com]

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela remained unbowed throughout her life and will be remembered for her obstinance: “I’m not… [twitter.com]

I’ve written a lot about #WinnieMandela this week. My final piece is for South Africans - because whether you like… [twitter.com]

24 Years Ago April, 7 1994 around 7 AM my Parent and uncle were killed during Genocide Against Tustsi. I used to pr… [twitter.com]

[]( "ProfTinyiko Maluleke [ProfTinyiko]") Thanks to #UJ for valorizing indigenous knowledge by honouring #EstherMahlangu with an honorary doctorate. No one d… [twitter.com]

My great-grandmother #Idabwells was one of the founders of the @NAACP. It's #Idastime to have a monument in her ho… [twitter.com]

Irish people were drawn as monkeys by British publications in the 1800s. [twitter.com]

The idea that MLK was "moving beyond the issue of race" in late 60s is incorrect. He actually argued that systemic… [twitter.com]

@BreeNewsome Even the most basic analysis of the lyrical content of 90's gangsta rap proves MLK correct: munitions,… [twitter.com]

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@doctorow . @wasbuxton probably has this in his collection!😂

Did u know that your Grandmother carried u inside her #womb? A female #fetus is born with all the eggs she will ha… [twitter.com]

How Ethiopic Script Was Introduced to Modern Computers: Interview with Fesseha Atlaw [tadias.com] [twitter.com]

Michigan's stink bug season could be worse than last year, experts say [bit.ly]

Many people taking antidepressants are saying they cannot quit because of withdrawal symptoms they were never warne… [twitter.com]

[]( "#Science and #Tech [Sci_Tweet]") The Illustrated Medicinal Plant Map of the United States of America (1932): Download It in High Resolution… [twitter.com]

When I told my high school calculus teacher I wanted to study aerospace engineering because I loved physics and spa… [twitter.com]

#DAPL leaks under 2% of the pipeline flow rate (570K barrels/day) cannot be detected, an 11K barrel oil spill would… [twitter.com]

Here’s an impressive achievement: #Ethiopia’s massive $5.0 billion “Grand Renaissance Dam”, on the world’s longest… [twitter.com]

500 years of Mississippi flood data shows things have gotten worse [arstechnica.com]

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Discover the Life & Work of Stanley Kubrick in a Sweeping Three-Hour Video Essay [goo.gl] [twitter.com]

Junot Díaz’s Syllabi for His MIT Writing Classes, and the Novels on His Reading List [goo.gl] [twitter.com]

The Paintings of Akira Kurosawa [goo.gl] [twitter.com]

Stream a 144-Hour Discography of Classic Jazz Recordings from Blue Note Records: Miles Davis, Art Blakey, John Colt… [twitter.com]

Nkyinkyim: The Ancestor Project that uses Sculpture [africandigitalart.com] [twitter.com]

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens, Professor, Department of History at Queens College, CUNY discusses the legacy of James Ma… [twitter.com]

Rare Book and Manuscript Library at University of Illinois acquires papers of poet @HakiMadhubuti and Third World P… [twitter.com]

UK Museum Rejects Ethiopia's Demand for Return of Stolen Treasures, But Offers to Loan Them Back… [twitter.com]

Teaser Trailer To ‘Mr. Soul!’ - Doc on Ellis Haizlip groundbreaking Talk Show - directed by Melissa Haizlip and Sam… [twitter.com]

"If improvisation means using intuition and risk in the present moment, there have been few musicians who took tha… [twitter.com]

Is it about black metal ? [twitter.com]

Sketching with Kami Awori | Native Instruments [youtube.com] @kamiawori <= @megafunkmega

Frederick Douglass On How Slave Owners Used Food As A Weapon Of Control [n.pr] [twitter.com]

How the U.S. Military Brought Soul Food to the World | Essay | Zócalo Public Square [bit.ly]… [twitter.com]

Metro Buses Converted Into Mobile Food Markets For Low Income Neighborhoods: [bit.ly] [twitter.com]

[]( "Salma Seti [SalmaDey]") You can’t be a needing help ass nigga and complain about feminism. You can’t desire a dependent woman with independ… [twitter.com]

Lately I’ve been getting a sneaking suspicion that all men think about is sex and that they will say pretty much an… [twitter.com]

@RuthHHopkins As an actual man of words (poetry) it was a horrible revelation to see that many women learn to have… [twitter.com]

@adannekaa There are too types of hurt black men: the ones that were protected by their functional mother and those… [twitter.com]

@KNeferhetep @AncestralVoices Let's get together with common sense: Africans fully functional means white men are l… [twitter.com]

young bruh, my daughter has to listen to phrases like "hyper-pigmentation" spoken solemnly and seriously by (slight… [twitter.com]

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