“Thousands of children are imprisoned across Africa” and other tweeted links…

Thousands of children are imprisoned across Africa. They need justice | The Guardian [kolumnmagazine.com][twitter.com]

'Why are some people rich and others poor? Answering this elusive question has been the lifelong work of economist @SandyDarity who pioneered the subfield of stratification economics, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding economic inequality' [newblackmaninexile.net][twitter.com]

Lawmaker Blasts Judge Who Sentenced Black Teen to 20 Years for Sexual Assault But Gave White Serial Rapist Just 3 Years [buff.ly][twitter.com]

When Transcanada built Keystone 1 over my tribe’s fresh groundwater they told us it wouldn’t leak. We knew better. We sued, but Hillary Clinton dismissed our lawsuit. Last Fall it leaked ~half a million gallons. Now they say it was damaged since day 1. [ksfy.com]

Activists cheered when a federal magistrate judge released Therese Okoumou without bail after she had spent the night behind bars. Okoumou responded by raising her fist and blowing kisses to her supporters. [time.com]

Ethiopia and Eritrea declare war over [bbc.in]

🇬🇧 Can Ethiopia and Eritrea be friends? | Inside Story [youtube.com]

We're All Subsidizing People Who Use American Express [buzzfeed.com] via @venessawwong

Twitter turned my informational thread about powwows into a Twitter Moment. Enjoy. 😄 [twitter.com]

How black people were eliminated in Argentina throughout history | Face 2 Face [kolumnmagazine.com][twitter.com]

“What to the American Slave Is Your 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech [democracynow.org] via @democracynow

When the Fourth of July Was a Black Holiday - The Atlantic [theatlantic.com]

This nation was not founded by immigrants. Europeans squatting on already-occupied land with the goal of producing raw goods for the wealth of England is COLONIZATION, not immigration. Please stop rewriting history to fit a convenient modern political narrative

@trueblackpower REAL VISION REWIND #1 – GODFATHER OF CENTRAL BANKING [John Law] [realvision.com]

@trueblackpower John Law had the idea of backing paper currency with government bonds, starting the trend of abstractions built on top of abstractions… [en.wikipedia.org]

Top 10 Greatest Slave Rebellions [youtu.be] [[patreon.com]]

Millionaire : The Philanderer, Gambler, and Duelist Who Invented Modern Finance by Janet Gleeson [amazon.com] => @trueblackpower[twitter.com]

“Where has income mobility been rising fastest? Britain.” by @GavinJKelly1[gavinkellyblog.com]

Incompetence By Design [monbiot.com] “As state bodies are dismantled, corporations are freed to rip the living world apart”

36 Black Inventors That Changed the World [edgylabs.com][twitter.com]

Radical As Ever, Boots Riley Takes On the Tech Boom [wired.com] via @WIRED

Why Curie’s no Einstein: A subtle gender bias in science [arstechnica.com]

Home security is more affordable — and better —than ever [houstonchronicle.com] via @HoustonChron

NASA put its famous planet-hunting telescope to sleep because it’s almost out of fuel [theverge.com] via @verge

Plenty of films have taken on anti-capitalist satire — but none are as fun, or frankly funny, as ‘Sorry to Bother You.’ | @sorayamcdonald[undf.td]

A Big Digital Archive of Independent & Alternative Publications: Browse/Download Radical Periodicals Printed from 1951 to 2016 [openculture.com][twitter.com]

A checklist of visual essays and data projects by Matt Daniels and The Pudding for African American literary studies -- [bit.ly][twitter.com]

The Oba: Sci-Fi Process Art [africandigitalart.com][twitter.com]

halfway through the year and i've featured over 100 new artists. hope you are subscribed. [africandigitalart.com]

✨ Happy Birthday, #JuneJordan ✨ Your poetry remains mesmerizing & powerful. Urging us to resist. Compelling us to love ourselves. "To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way." [twitter.com]

Happy 80th Birthday to Bill Withers! From Boom Bap to G-Funk, there’s no era of hip-hop, R&B, or soul, that hasn’t bared his mark—and our latest 'In Hip-Hop and Beyond' playlist proves just that. Listen: [bit.ly][twitter.com]

Amazing sidewalk art in front of an Apple store to remind them of where that coltan (the mineral used to make the phones/laptops etc) comes from. Mining for coltan in the Congo has resulted in many deaths & human rights violations. Eduardo Relero is the artist. [twitter.com]

"Why is it that so many rappers are in an out prison, we don't see this with any other form of music. We don't see R&B singers going to prison. At this point rappers seems to be a bunch of criminals trying to make songs" 🤔[s1.zetaboards.com] via @natturnerx65

@trueblackpower @natturnerx65 Organized crime and entertainment have a long history but the criminals never passed themselves off as the talent in such huge numbers until the overthrow of @MrChuckD and boogie-down productions.

Episode 931 Boots Riley / Bobcat Goldthwait [wtfpod.com]@BootsRiley lays out the class system and the pathetic refuge of the academy in like five minutes => @trueblackpower@megafunkmega@Reelblack

@JuneCarol_E Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz [amazon.com][twitter.com]

@JuneCarol_E South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by Kellie Jones [amazon.com][twitter.com]

@JuneCarol_E Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power by Mark Godfrey [amazon.com][twitter.com]

Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool by Trevor Schoonmaker [amazon.com] [a favorite artist of @JuneCarol_E] [twitter.com]

Terry Gilliam on diversity: 'I tell the world now I’m a black lesbian' [theguardian.com]

Hear Stanley Kubrick Explain The '2001: A Space Odyssey' Ending In A Rare, Unearthed Video [esquire.com] via @EsquireUK

@EsquireUK Stanley Kubrick on the meaning of the ending of 2001 in a rare 1980 interview [youtube.com]

@EsquireUK the human-zoo thing i got when i saw the film the first time but the super-being-back-to-Earth thing was not really my assumption—it’s like a Thanos origin story => @megafunkmega

How George Clinton Made Funk a World View [newyorker.com] <= @megafunkmega [yo, man I admit I did not read this]

there’s folk doing revolutionary stuff offline, who only post jokes or sports on here there’s folk doing revolutionary stuff offline,but use twitter to teach the basics there’s some doing revolutionary stuff offline, who speak of actions they do only in part levels& strategy😉

I have an elderly Kenyan woman staying with me for a couple of weeks, it's her first time out of Africa. This evening she told me all about her farm and how she manages it. Intriguing!

To be a good farmer you have to be a good manager and a strategic thinker is my takeaway from the conversation I had with this lady.

@RowenaMonde Ah, yes and even the communist Chinese have figured out that it is easier to control urban people with none of these rural, wisdom-based skills of self-organizing necessity.

@KinteSpace Very true. And Ngugi said the rural dwellers are the main keepers of the culture

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