“Israel convicts Palestinian over poem” and other Tweeted links…

'Only Arabs go to jaiI': Israel convicts Palestinian over poem https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/arabs-jaii-israel-convicts-palestinian-poem-180503161402330.html We'll discuss #DareenTatour'… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996004766332391424

Mass School Shootings Mostly Happening In Small-town and Suburban America http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/05/22/mass-school-shootings-mostly-happening-in-small-town-and-suburban-america/ via @atlblackstar

Father Critically Injured After Jumping In the Line of Fire to Save His Daughter http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/05/24/father-critically-injured-after-jumping-in-the-line-of-fire-to-save-his-daughter/ https://twitter.com/ATLBlackStar/status/999677679937957894/photo/1

Just heard that the Long Beach Press Telegram is down to one reporter and have seen the outpouring of support for t… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/999631182445756416

Today is #WorldDayforCulturalDiversity. The article from our archives unpacks how religious conservatism is erasing… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998505123017035776

The NFL plantation owners passed a policy to make patriotism mandatory for their property. Either pay deference to… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/999382880035000321

Rest In Power Aunt Laura Hendrix, owner of #galleryplus In #leimertpark #leimertparkvillage .The public is invited… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1001044982721990656

Over 300 black-owned businesses thrived in the community known as the “Black Wall Street” before they were all dest… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998356952303497221

[]( "Joerg Stratmann [joergstratmann]") An interactive map shows just how many roads actually lead to Rome - all of 'em! http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/an-interactive-map-shows-just-how-many-roads-actually-lead-to-rome.html via… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/993509748468277254

"Rebuilding African and African American Studies | Over the course of the nineties, Harvard’s Afro-American Studies… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/999622056886128640

[]( "BlackInformant [BlackInformant]") Ferguson, Mo., Activists Are Dying and It’s Time to Ask Questions http://ow.ly/F9G630jZ4cw

Ferguson activist #DarrenSeals would have been 31 years old today. To commemorate his life and work, several Black… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996374862892535808

[]( "Nkisi Babaoké [Henry_James]") “Every time you sit in front of the television, somebody is working on you, someone is working to change you from a… https://twitter.com/account/suspended

[]( "BlackInformant [BlackInformant]") Hair Products Popular with Black Women May Contain Harmful Chemicals http://ow.ly/v2Lk30jYqfl

[]( "BlackInformant [BlackInformant]") A Chinese high school in Hangzhou is reportedly using facial recognition tech to track pupil attendance, emotions,… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998830848660115456

Prominent AI researchers call the entire field "alchemy" https://boingboing.net/2018/05/04/empirical-rigor.html https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/992391695911260163/photo/1

Hard to believe that people doing research in their field would not check a journal's integrity and impact factor b… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1020233005607137280

Uganda's Bad Toilet Paper is Dangerous - Study http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00061012.html?utm_campaign=allafrica%3Aeditor&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=promote%3Agroup%3Aacbxam #Tanzania #Uganda https://twitter.com/allafrica/status/996132313237946368/photo/1

wow. Lava spatters "can weigh as much as a refrigerator." Man's leg shattered by lava spatter from Hawaii volcano… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998560295684583425

Nipah virus, spread by fruit bats, kills 10 in India http://aje.io/36x6y https://twitter.com/AJENews/status/998935218726817793/photo/1

Heart Failure in the Black Community: What African-Americans Need to Know http://atlantablackstar.com/2018/05/28/heart-failure-in-the-black-community-what-african-americans-need-to-know/ via @atlblackstar

There's a simple hack to counting in #Yoruba. At the very least, learn numbers 1 to 5 and the tens. With those, you… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996059325721403392

The University of Minnesota is now offering Dakota language courses live via video conference. https://twitter.com/RuthH_Hopkins/status/996956313392467973

[]( "aloria 🦔 [aloria]") By age 35 you should have a junk drawer filled with USB flash drives you’re reluctant to throw out because you don’… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/998215655689216001

Black men, personal libraries, and book culture -- http://www.culturalfront.org/2018/03/black-men-personal-libraries-and-black.html https://twitter.com/blackstudies/status/979090575457693699/photo/1

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/28/chimamanda-ngozi-adichie-feminism-racism-sexism-gender-metoo?CMP=share_btn_tw

“At what is expense is all this light...what’s been pushed into the shadows?” -- Filmmaker John Akomfrah talks the… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996391096631615489

The African American Museum and Library of Oakland will soon digitize rare protest footage of the Black Power movem… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/999683374385164289

Dozens of M.C. Escher Prints Now Digitized & Put Online by the Boston Public Library http://www.openculture.com/2018/05/dozens-of-m-c-escher-prints-now-digitized-put-online-by-the-boston-public-library.html https://twitter.com/openculture/status/994247242084044801/photo/1

J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a "Heartfelt Loathing" for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/991712825465716736

An 82-Year-Old Japanese Audiophile Searches for the Best Sound by Installing His Own Electric Utility Pole in His Y… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/999701080115036160

National Geographic Has Digitized Its Collection of 6,000+ Vintage Maps. See a Curated Selection of Maps Published… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996059060402376704

In Search of Haruki Murakami: A Documentary Introduction to Japan’s Great Novelist http://goo.gl/q4Pu7 https://twitter.com/openculture/status/996993428608110592/photo/1

Check out our #PoetryNearYou Pick of the Week: A Tribute to June Jordan, an inter-generational exploration of the l… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/996027350679617537

"No single work by Baldwin is as connected to the issues animating Black Lives Matter as The Evidence of Things Not… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/997077534427656192

Imagine being confident enough to lecture MLK's daughter about what MLK believed. Whiteness, man. Mad ting. https://twitter.com/lucianwintrich/status/998230068878102529

[]( "SamuelFuryChildsDaly [sfcdaly]") Archive find of the day - the Nigerian Army had a poetry journal in the 70s and 80s https://twitter.com/sfcdaly/status/999888129724051458/photo/1

[]( "#NonBeliever✊🏾😡 [Fresh_Flames1]") #ThankATeacher Thank You #DrSebi For Teaching Us What To Eat And When To Eat It https://twitter.com/Fresh_Flames1/status/993548275910434816/photo/1

People act like black men are inherently evil. Like they haven’t been conditioned and brainwashed and broken down t… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/980670064071344128

All Blk couples suffer disproportionate rates of IPV: BM & BW, BW & BW, BM & BM, yet we don't hear about this dispr… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/987368579279581185

Important study on bidirectionality amongst African Americans and Black female perpetration of IPV and corporal pun… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/990109507161337857

"Marx can come almost painfully close to describing our current world. Today, a brutal economism dominates many min… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/992822482871599104

[]( "Khensu The Reminder [KNeferhetep]") Why can’t most Africans tell you with any degree of detail their indigenous belief systems? Their ancient customs, rites and deities?

They're selling Dave Chappelle's crackhead outfit at Banana Republic. https://twitter.com/Curtis_Cook/status/994442968005267456/photo/1

[]( "khadija [beautifuldeson1]") Can't complain about "ain't shit niggas" without blaming the ain't shit women who raised them.

"Now we are less interested in equipping and refining thought, more interested in creating and mastering technologi… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/995511987776798720

YES!!! Stop Asking About My Kid’s College Plans https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/opinion/sunday/stop-asking-about-my-kids-college-plans.html

People be quick to react but slow to understand.

It's never taken me 2 hours to get to Heathrow Airport. This dude took scenic route & put the in a crunch that I may miss my flight. PO'd!😣

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