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“Why School Dress Codes Are Often Biased Against Black Girls” and other Tweeted links…

KOLUMN Magazine [KOLUMN_Magazine] Why School Dress Codes Are Often Biased Against Black Girls | Slate [kolumnmagazine.com] [twitter.com]

Left of Black [LeftOfBlack] How School Dress Codes Unfairly Target Black Girls [atlantablackstar.com] via @atlblackstar

Atlanta Black Star [ATLBlackStar] Border Patrol Refuses to Return $41K Seized from Texas Woman Unless She Promises Not to Sue Them… [twitter.com]

Mark Anthony Neal [NewBlackMan] Are LA hospitals really dumping homeless patients on the streets? [theguardian.com]

Zemedeneh Negatu [Zemedeneh] #Africa loses $2 billion annually due to brain drain of health care professionals, via @Mo_IbrahimFdn. My View: The… [twitter.com]

Malika Bilal [mmbilal] What will a new police law mean for people living in Bavaria? Our community member @k3vk4 pitched it; we're coverin… [twitter.com]

the kinte space [KinteSpace] The Spy Who Came Home: Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop. [newyorker.com]

the kinte space [KinteSpace] Woman receives $5,751 ER bill—for an ice pack and a bandage [arstechnica.com]

HuffPost BlackVoices [blackvoices] No one did more to raise consciousness and to end systemic lynching in the U.S. than Ida B. Wells. [huffp.st]

Black News Portal [BlackNewsPortal] Longest living Rosewood Massacre survivor dies at 98 [blacknewsportal.com]

Greg Carr [AfricanaCarr] Remember the Battle of Puebla and Mexico's anti-slavery roots. Remember Black-Brown unity in resistance to settler… [twitter.com]

Michael W. Twitty [KosherSoul] I am sad to report that my grandfather, Gonze Lee Twitty, aged 99, a founder of the Federation of Southern Cooperat… [twitter.com]

Laura Seay [texasinafrica] When I teach the Iran Contra Affair and Oliver North to intro IR students, they stare at me in total disbelief. Lik… [twitter.com]

Ajamu Baraka [ajamubaraka] Most people don't realize that 1968 was a pivotal year for counterrevolution in the U.S. and Western Europe. The ca… [twitter.com]

ghetto intellectual™ [kzshabazz] 'History is being lost’ - By 1888, at least 200 black towns and communities had been established nationwide... “The… [twitter.com]

Howard Rambsy II [blackstudies] "I’m writing about school segregation in one of the most liberal cities in the country where the mayor, who’s marri… [twitter.com]

the kinte space [KinteSpace] The Hobo Ethical Code of 1889: 15 Rules for Living a Self-Reliant, Honest & Compassionate Life [goo.gl] via @openculture

the kinte space [KinteSpace] Mobile phone cancer warning as malignant brain tumours double [telegraph.co.uk] via @TelegraphSci

the kinte space [KinteSpace] Earth’s carbon dioxide levels reach highest point in 800,000 years [thespec.com]

the kinte space [KinteSpace] Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures by Roma Agrawal @RomaTheEngineer [amazon.com]

Open Culture [openculture] The Atlantic Slave Trade Visualized in Two Minutes: 10 Million Lives, 20,000 Voyages, Over 315 Years… [twitter.com]

Open Culture [openculture] How Information Overload Robs Us of Our Creativity: What the Scientific Research Shows [goo.gl] [twitter.com]

Open Culture [openculture] Noam Chomsky Explains What’s Wrong with Postmodern Philosophy & French Intellectuals, and How They End Up Supportin… [twitter.com]

Tara [taraw] Devastated to hear that #ArethaFranklin the Queen of Soul and Music has passed. All of my musical heroes are leavin… [twitter.com]

#WOMENSART [womensart1] Corinne West (1908–1991), US Abstract Expressionist who used pseudonym 'Micheal West' due to the lack of opportunit… [twitter.com]

#WOMENSART [womensart1] Intimate embroidered portraits by Cape Town artist Danielle Clough #womensart [twitter.com]

#WOMENSART [womensart1] Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby creates layered figurative compositions referencing the historical, politic… [twitter.com]

momtaza mehri 🤳🏾 [RuffneckRefugee] Octavia Butler was troubled by a fellow classmate’s naive criticism of previous generations for their ‘subservience… [twitter.com]

Black Art Project [BlackArtProject] "Citing Crumbling Ceilings and Absent Faculty, Columbia University Art Students Demand a Refund | Students say the… [twitter.com]

Kamala Harris [SenKamalaHarris] Wanted to share a photo of some of the beautiful artwork I have in my office. The two pieces behind me are called “… [twitter.com]

Rowena M. [RowenaMonde] I really like this foreword to Dante's Inferno 🔥🔥🔥🔥 written by Ian Thomson [twitter.com]

[ነፃነት 🎨🍃🌻🦉🎍 [Netsa_Sara]]( "ነፃነት 🎨🍃🌻🦉🎍 [Netsa_Sara]") Another by Tesfay Atcbehha Negga, does it reminds you of another painting? 🤔@RowenaMonde [twitter.com]

Randal Maurice Jelks [drjelks] Well the list omits so many great independent bookstores #SchulerBooksandMusic #TheRaven #OctaviaBooks[twitter.com]

[Sarah😇 [SarahloveNature]]( "Sarah😇 [SarahloveNature]") For 14 years, photographer Sergio Tapiro took over 300,000 photos of Mount Colima. Then, it finally erupted. “This… [twitter.com]

[Sergio Andreola [sergioandreola]]( "Sergio Andreola [sergioandreola]") Setsuko Hara in "Late Spring" (a.k.a. Banshun)/Yasujiro Ozu, 1949 [twitter.com]

the kinte space [KinteSpace] Countering The Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys (1987) [youtube.com] @Reelblack

the kinte space [KinteSpace] @Reelblack looking forward to @tonetalks and/or @BreakingBrown to study this polished, data-rich presentation from… [twitter.com]

the kinte space [KinteSpace] because he is younger than me @MaronzioVance mixes up Dance Hall with Reggae but does not confuse The Soul Stone wi… [twitter.com]

the kinte space [KinteSpace] two words: cape room [youtube.com] => @MaronzioVance @megafunkmega @EdGreerDestroys @taraw

soulPhoodie [soulphoodie] Homeless Girl Scouts Troop Slay Their First Cookie Sale, Selling More Than 32,000 Boxes Of Cookies… [twitter.com]

Candice Frederick [ReelTalker] Why is everything so expensive?

the kinte space [KinteSpace] @ReelTalker Warning! Man-splain mode! The U.S. is losing it’s reserve currency status which means the deficit “we”… [twitter.com]

Be A King [BerniceKing] There’s a difference between white people being under attack and white supremacist ideology being under attack. Eve… [twitter.com]

[khadija [beautifuldeson1]]( "khadija [beautifuldeson1]") Nobody worships celebrities like black people, nobody focuses their attention on people who've done nothing for the… [twitter.com]

the kinte space [KinteSpace] @beautifuldeson1 Traditionally, the concept of celebrity was confined to ideas, concepts literally symbolized into… [twitter.com]

MJ Rymsza-Pawlowska [malgorzatar] Look, I’ve lived in Illinois and seen a lot of Lincolns in my time but this is maybe one of the most unusual? C. 19… [twitter.com]

[BlackInformant [BlackInformant]]( "BlackInformant [BlackInformant]") Will Meghan and Harry's wedding change views on racism and diversity in UK? [news.sky.com]

the kinte space [KinteSpace] @BlackInformant No, because this happened before... The African presence in Medieval Europe is well documented and… [twitter.com]

Josh Myers [ddehewty] When someone says five minutes and you have to figure out if it’s five minutes or five Black minutes...

the kinte space [KinteSpace] @ddehewty And this shit is really sad because we are known for our rhythm which means we can keep time with precision when we get free.😟🐒

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