“US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over ‘modern slavery’” and other tweeted links…

US inmates stage nationwide prison labor strike over 'modern slavery' [theguardian.com]

There Was No Dress Code For My White Coworkers. But There Was For Me. [bustle.com]

"It’s unthinkable that a court would uphold a policy that effectively required White workers to alter their hair texture through costly, time-consuming procedures involving harsh chemicals." -- @RiaTabaccoMar[nytimes.com]

Ayanna Pressley Stuns Capuano in Massachusetts House Race in Upset for Insurgents [nyti.ms]

A few weeks ago a Black woman was assaulted by Asian store owner at a Tulsa beauty supply store. Now the owner of the store is selling all products for 50 % off and there is a line of Black women waiting to shop with this store. Full story = [bit.ly][twitter.com]

“Mississippi Is Failing”: As Prisoner Deaths Reach 13 in August Alone, Advocates Demand Answers [democracynow.org] via @democracynow

Bill makes CA first state to end bail before trial [abc7.com] via @abc7

Thomas Mukaya (Senior Reuters Photo Director, East Africa) is the photojournalist behind a 2017 photo of a protester catching a teargas canister. He is also the 2018 Annual Journalism Excellence Awards (AJEA) Photographer Of The Year. [twitter.com]

Original Cowboys of the West ca.1876 🐎 🔫 [twitter.com]

Emmett Till was murdered on this day in 1955. He was only 14-years-old. Sixty-three years later, federal lynching is still not a federal crime. Senators Booker, Scott, and I have introduced the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act to finally make it one. We can’t stay silent. [twitter.com]

Learn the #hiddenherstory of Anna Murray Douglass from @SmithsonianMagazine. Although she’s often overshadowed by her husband, Frederick Douglass, Anna made his work possible. Learn more: [bit.ly]

"From a slave’s collar to segregation signs, Oran Z has spent years collecting often shocking mementoes of America’s racial struggles. Now it all lies in shipping containers – and no institution will touch it" [theguardian.com]

'What Dorothy Porter’s Life Meant for Black Studies' -- "Dorothy Porter, a Black woman pioneer in library and information science, created an archive that structured a new field." [daily.jstor.org] via @JSTOR_Daily

New evidence that losing your job is even more stressful for Black Americans [brook.gs] via @BrookingsInst with findings from @DukeAAAS's @SandyDarity & future @KirwanInstitute Director @DarrickHamilton

Historian @jbf1755 uses the diaries of a Washington fixture to detail the violence within Congress in the years before the Civil War [po.st] via @SmithsonianMag

Anyways, I have to walk my sister now to the radiology department for her 15th round of radiation therapy. Please have my sister in thoughts and prayers as she battles adenocarcinoma of the uterine wall and the paraneoplastic syndromes that follows.

Important: "Aggressive policing can...lower the educational performance of African-American youth. These findings provide evidence that the consequences of policing extend into...social life, with implications for the educational trajectories ...and social inequality" [twitter.com]

India is the world's largest market for skin bleaching products: 735 million users, mostly women and girls. Nigeria comes second, with 99.5 million users. Skin bleaching products make up 23% of the skin care product market. [feminisminindia.com]

India's Biometric Database Is Creating A Perfect Surveillance State -- And U.S. Tech Companies Are On Board [tech.slashdot.org]

Triangulation 354: Virginia Eubanks: Automating Inequality [youtu.be] => @tonetalks

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor [amazon.com] by @PopTechWorks[twitter.com]

L.A. County gets state approval of new vote-counting system using open source software [latimes.com]

Data of 130 Million Chinese Hotel Chain Guests Sold on Dark Web Forum [bleepingcomputer.com]

Snapchat, Weather Channel, and others hit with anti-Semitic vandalism [theverge.com] via @verge

Massive fish die-off creates smelly mess in Malibu [abc7.com] via @ABC7

New species of mosquito invading Southern California [abc7.com] via @abc7

'Aggressive' toe-biting insects found in Santa Monica Mountains [abc7.com] via @abc7

Eight Artists of the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora Exhibit in Jamaica, Queens [hyperallergic.com]

Randy Weston, Pianist Who Traced Africa in Jazz, Dies at 92 [nyti.ms]

Jazz pianist Randy Weston left us this morning at age 92. Weston was the ultimate individualist whether at the keyboard (where he was a Monk disciple before almost anyone else) or when moving his jazz career from NY to North Africa. An irreplaceable artist & inspiring role model. [twitter.com]

“In the late 1960s, Randy Weston—at the time already an established jazz giant—left the United States to live in Africa, thereby building a bridge between Africa’s cultural roots and influence and the USA, which in turn was reflected in his music.” [boesendorfer.com][twitter.com]

It was 20 years ago that #BLADE was released -- the CBM that opened more doors than fans know. And the great @wesleysnipes was behind it all -- also in more ways than fans know. NEW on @MoviesMatrix! 👇🏽👊🏽🥋 [moviesmatrix.com]

Mali singer Khaira Arby, 'Nightingale of Timbuktu,' dies at 59 | The Japan Times [japantimes.co.jp]

Jean-Pierre Leloir's colour photographs of American jazz legends in France: John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Billie Holiday, and Eric Dolphy. [twitter.com]

Ivorian Contemporary Artist Mederic Turay [africandigitalart.com][twitter.com]

Rovik Comic Book by Avandu [africandigitalart.com][twitter.com]

"The Long Tomorrow": Discover Mœbius’ Hard-Boiled Detective Comic That Inspired Blade Runner (1975) [openculture.com][twitter.com]

'The Annunciation of a Woman' by Harmonia Rosales, contemporary Afro-Cuban US artist known for foregrounding black women in Western and religious imagery to create an alternative world vision #womensart[twitter.com]

Congratulations to Cave Canem Elder Sonia Sanchez, recipient of the $100,00 2018 Wallace Stevens Award from The Academy of American Poets. 🙏🏿 [poets.org][twitter.com]

I don’t need to read any more think pieces about whether or not poetry matters. How about this short poem from THE SECOND O OF SORROW by Sean Thomas Dougherty. [twitter.com]

Excited to be participating in this amazing conference in Leeds! [twitter.com]

@shailjapatel @bodega_gyro_ao Watch this excellent doc on the globalization of the beauty industry. [youtu.be]

I keep this book in my mental currency TayannahLeeMcQuillars documentation [twitter.com]

Alice Coltrane’s technique of achieving pitch bend by turning her electric Hammond OFF then quickly back ON was revolutionary! It is one of the EARLIEST examples of HACKING for musical effect. It PREDATES Moog or ARP. She has gotten NO CREDIT FOR THIS.

Theft! A History of Music is a graphic novel laying out a 2000-year long history of musical borrowing from Plato to rap. It is available as a handsome paperback, and for free download under a Creative Commons license. [law.duke.edu] => @megafunkmega[twitter.com]

Vegan fast-food spot Monty's Good Burger makes Koreatown debut [abc7.com] via @ABC7

The wigs and robes worn by judges and lawyers in former British colonies are among the most glaring symbols of colonial inheritance; an inheritance so old-fashioned and uncomfortable that even British barristers have stopped wearing them. [thisisafrica.me][twitter.com]

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