“Why Diversity Programs Fail” and other tweeted links…
Why Diversity Programs Fail [hbr.org]
#jemeleRoberson was literally a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun... So where the fuck is the @NRA?
He was working security. An armed shooter came in and opened fire. He subdued the shooter and held him down until law enforcement arrived. Police shot and killed him instantly. This is why we kneel. This is why we protest. We demand justice. He was 26. #JemeleRoberson[twitter.com]
At least 1.4 million people have regained the right to vote in Florida, following the passage of Amendment 4, a statewide initiative to... [tsonnews.com]
Kern Water Bank controlled by a SINGLE CORPORATION and run by Billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick, who GOT RICH GROWING almonds + 2 CROPS [twitter.com]
CA Water Wars. Stewart Resnick, #KernWaterBank, [story.californiasunday.com] The State Water Project that allowed western Kern County to grow into a farming behemoth has given no water or very little water over the past three years amid the worst drought in California history.
Truly horrific. At least 60 Indigenous women pursue class-action lawsuit alleging they underwent forced sterilizations over past 20-25 years in Saskatchewan. Lawyer says they were kept from seeing their newborns until agreeing to sterilization [cbc.ca]#healthlaw
Stacey Abrams v Brian Kemp: inside the bitter battle for Georgia's soul [youtu.be]
SoCal Edison admits its equipment helped start Thomas Fire [abc7.com] via @abc7
'Phenomenally saddening': inside the sordid world of America's for-profit colleges [theguardian.com]
Remember 17 y/o Jordan Davis? He was murdered in 2012 by a man upset with him for playing loud music at a Florida gas station. His mom Lucy McBath was just elected to Congress. [twitter.com]
@citeblackwomen Leticia James is the first black New York State Attorney General [twitter.com]
Another Howard grad makes history. Congratulations Leticia James! #HU[twitter.com]
Richard Arvin Overton (b. 5/11/1906) is an American supercentenarian who, at 112 years old, is both the oldest verified surviving U.S. war veteran and the oldest living man in the United States. #VeteransDay#BlackTwitter#BlackHistory[twitter.com]
'Heralded by the activist Angela Davis, the work of the 92-year-old Betye Saar remains prescient with its focus on how racism is entrenched in American culture' [theguardian.com]
" Since the death of Crispus Attucks, the first person killed in the Boston Massacre (and thus the first martyr of the American Revolution), Black sacrifice for the nation has been turned into a weapon against us for the benefit of the state." [truthout.org]
Because of their military service, Black veterans were seen as a particular threat to Jim Crow and racial subordination. Thousands of black veterans were assaulted, threatened, abused, or lynched following military service. #veteransday[eji.org]
The FBI's War on Black America (1990) [youtu.be] via @reelblack
Red Tails, Awards to 332nd Fighter Group [youtu.be] via @reelblack
Global wildlife populations have fallen by 60% in just over four decades, as accelerating pollution, deforestation, climate change and other manmade factors have created a "mindblowing" crisis, the World Wildlife Fund warns in a damning new report [cnn.it]
Wat Misaka, 1st non-white player in NBA, honored in Little Tokyo [abc7.la][twitter.com]
Lawmaker who wants paid fast lanes on Internet wins US Senate seat [arstechnica.com] by @JBrodkin
Rare color footage of George Washington Carver was discovered while staff were working on a recent accession of audiovisual material from @NatlParkService[go.usa.gov]@TuskegeeUniv@NMAAHC#Kodachrome[twitter.com]
Comcast to Pay $700,000 in Refunds Over Hidden Fees [gizmodo.com] via @gizmodo
Riot Games sued for gender discrimination [buff.ly][twitter.com]
Grumman Aircraft Corp. tried to sell this space suit to NASA in 1962 [mitchwagner.tumblr.com][twitter.com]
For Jane Austen fans:)-- The Psychopathology of Everyday Narcissism | Psychology Today [psychologytoday.com]
BBC News - Surgery students 'losing dexterity to stitch patients' [bbc.com]
BBC News - Why Big Tech pays poor Kenyans to programme self-driving cars [bbc.com]
How Stanley Kubrick Became Stanley Kubrick: A Short Documentary Narrated by the Filmmaker [goo.gl][twitter.com]
Watch "Geometry of Circles," the Abstract Sesame Street Animation Scored by Philip Glass (1979) [goo.gl][twitter.com]
So Wyntons ascension is part of a cultural political project. Conservative. Traditional. Ellisonian. Hargrove was far more open, as Glasper's quote suggests. [twitter.com]
Roy Hargrove -Why I Get Paid, What I Give Back, and Sacrifices Made [youtu.be]#RIP
#WTF. Damn. --> Roy Hargrove, Grammy-Winning Jazz Trumpeter, Dies At 49 [n.pr]
"Roy Hargrove was the first guy I saw that was hip. He was the only one. Roy came to my high school and had on overalls and Timberlands and I was like, “You can look like that and play jazz?!? Oh, snap! You look like me!” [twitter.com]
My favorite trumpeter. Period. Interviewed him years ago before I headed to grad school. Having written a jazz bio about a guitar great who died at 43, I know this scene is hard. [youtu.be] Rest In Peace. [twitter.com]
Keith Wilder, Singer of Acclaimed Funk Outfit Heatwave, Dead at 65 [rollingstone.com] via @RollingStone
How many people you know had "Always And Forever" as their wedding song! One of the greatest love songs ever! The long 7 min version is timeless #RIP Keith Wilder lead singer of the Funk group #Heatwave#Soul#RB#Group#70s#Classic#LoveSong#SlowaJam[twitter.com]
Congratulations to Cave Canem fellow Elizabeth Acevedo (@AcevedoWrites) whose novel "The Poet X" won the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature! [twitter.com]
5 of 5 stars to Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler [goodreads.com]
Reading some old notes I jotted while on the bus and found a note that said a man took offence when the seat he offered to another passenger wasn't taken. He was so mad that he asked the passenger to get off at the next stop to fight him.
@RowenaMonde I wanna say that Harold Pinter would be one of the most effective for such note taking👤
Another one: A man on the bus bragging about having a full head of hair at 60. Disgruntled passenger said, "So? I'm 57 and my hair is longer and more colourful" 😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
I have pages of these notes. So much interesting stuff happens on public transportation.
The Wandering Earth could be China’s breakout sci-fi blockbuster film [theverge.com] via @Verge
BBC News - Jin Yong: The 'Tolkien of Chinese literature' dies at 94 [bbc.com]
L.A. Film Festival to shut down after 18 years as Film Independent shifts focus to broader range of events [heraldcourier.com] via @heraldcourier => @reelblack
22;31... "Black people sell trauma'' Vince Staples. this is what being "conscious" looks like. Being critically conscious/aware of oneself, culture, and surroundings. The full interview is a must-watch. What an intelligent guy. [youtube.com]
to be “right” is to be the right person in the right place at the right time operating on the right principles —Bayyinah Bello [en.wikipedia.org][twitter.com]