“Ebola Outbreak ‘Worst In Congo’s History’ As Hundreds Dead” and other tweeted links…

Ebola Outbreak “Worst In Congo’s History” As Hundreds Dead; Risk Of Spread To Uganda “Very High” [goo.gl]

Así disparan gases agentes de EEUU contra territorio mexicano. #CaravanaDeMigrantes@PlazaPublicaGT[twitter.com]

#StaceyAbrams is developing a solid strategy for breaking electoral white supremacy’s back. Suing #BrianKemp and his #JimCrow klansmen, helps to fight 3rd Reconstruction voting war. That will also build momentum & infrastructure as white supremacy’s demographic numbers go south.

“If properties in black neighborhoods were priced equally as those in white neighborhoods, black children coming of age in the 1990s and 2000s would have had much more wealth to draw upon to pay for things like private schooling, tutoring..." [nymag.com]

Ruth Buffalo, who is the first Native American Democratic woman elected to the North Dakota legislature, took her oath of office today. She unseated the ND Rep who sponsored the voter law that disenfranchised Native voters in that state. [twitter.com]

AAAS faculty member @SandyDarity's work discussed in @NewYorker: How Cory Booker’s “Baby Bond” Proposal Could Transform the Reparations Debate [newyorker.com]

Why affordable housing is scarce in progressive cities [curbed.com] via @Curbed

Facebook’s top execs ‘make tobacco executives look like Mr. Rogers’ [recode.net] via @Recode

Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara—A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony [democracynow.org] via @democracynow

Crenshaw District mural defaced with swastikas [abc7.com] via @abc7

Japan Is Giving Away 8 Million Abandoned Houses — Here's How to Get One (Video) [travelandleisure.com]

I always dreamed of being on @CNN and being able to speak for the voiceless generation of America... Watch my full interview with @smerconish talking about #MeekCHAMPIONSHIPS and the challenges we face relating to criminal justice #REFORM: [meekmill.co][twitter.com]

How Ghana made itself the African home for a return of the black diaspora [qz.com] via @qzafrica

"The Slave Societies Digital Archive documents the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans, their descendants, and the indigenous, European and Asian people with whom they interacted." [blavity.com] via @Blavity

Why You Should Remember The Charles Deslondes Slave Rebellion - [bit.ly][twitter.com]

Dorothy Porter challenged the racial bias in the Dewey Decimal System and put black scholars alongside their colleagues, where they belonged [po.st] via @SmithsonianMag

Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time [amazon.com][twitter.com]

The kilogram as you know it is changing. Instead of using a small metal cylinder in Paris, the measure will now be based on a factor of physics called the "Planck constant" [twitter.com]

Gonorrhea is making a comeback. It infects over 70,000,000 people every year and is on the verge of becoming a major health crisis. More on @business: [bloom.bg][twitter.com]

Percentage of Japanese university students with dating experience falls to record low [jtim.es]

Ethiopia to launch its first-ever satellite in 2019 [iafrikan.com]

Lost both parents to HIV at the age of 16 and became the head of a family of 4, living in the township with no hope of ever making it. July 2018 graduated with a PhD in Neuroscience at Wits. Proud to have taken all my siblings to Uni too! God is good@FabAcademic[twitter.com]

With sincere thanks to an anonymous donor, we have been challenged to raise $9,000 between now and #GivingTuesday! That means every dollar donated to Cave Canem will be doubled. #InvestInBlackPoets and impact the future of Black poetry and literature: [cavecanempoets.kindful.com]. [twitter.com]

"cutting greens" by Cave Canem Elder Lucille Clifton. [twitter.com]

I guess it's time I pitch my "bionic-Compton telepathic cat w/ a heart of gold" pilot. @ava Development: Ava DuVernay inks major Warner TV deal; Paul King boards perpetual train; more [syfy.com]

A Georgia native is the youngest woman trader at the New York Stock Exchange, and now her story is being told on the big screen. [2wsb.tv][twitter.com]

Netflix will order original shows from Africa in 2019 [engadget.com] via @engadget@KinteSpace

Booker T. Washington - Up From Slavery | Read by Ossie Davis (1976) [youtu.be] via @reelblack

Redd Foxx - The True Hollywood Story (1999) [youtu.be] via @reelblack

I've been using Bumble Bloom's plant-based honey alternative, this one ginger-flavoured, in my oatmeal for a couple of days and I'm sold! Sharing for those of you looking for more sustainable and eco-friendly foods. [twitter.com]

I think I know why finding organic teff (grown in the U.S.) will be difficult: the use of herbicides for weed control: [youtu.be]

Buckwheat holds up pretty well against teff nutritionally: [skipthepie.org]

Teff kicks millet's ass nutritionally: [skipthepie.org]

Teff beats kamut in the area of mineral content: [skipthepie.org]

teff suddenly gets folates when it is cooked? is this good nature or bad data? [twitter.com]

Quinoa has folates and vitamin E but teff has everything else: [skipthepie.org]

Self-Love Is an Adventure, Not a Destination [onbeing.org]

@RowenaMonde Exactly. That's the story of not being able to share my life with a person that viscerally does not know what sharing is: one who is obsessed with invulnerability over being alive. It is a profound level of metaphysical poverty that I blame on the many toxic forms of modernism.

@KinteSpace Your comment definitely resonates. I've been wondering what it is that kills our humanity, now I'm going to be looking at modernism in a different way

@RowenaMonde the history of WWI is deliberately told to underestimate/minimize the toxic-modernist effect on humanity; i assert that J.R.R. Tolkien, his work exists to dramatize this catastrophic loss through fantasy telling

@RowenaMonde “J.R.R. Tolkien served in the British Army during World War I (or the "Great War"), most notably in the bloody Battle of the Somme.” [tolkiengateway.net][twitter.com]

@RowenaMonde Why World War One Is at the heart of Lord of the Rings [johngarth.wordpress.com][twitter.com]

@KinteSpace Ah, interesting! I wonder whether brutalism was a result of this

@RowenaMonde you have given me a homework assignment: “English Architecture and the First World War - Professor Simon Thurley” [youtube.com]

@RowenaMonde are we talking about brutalist architecture? German military concrete structures from WWII surely must deeply inform brutalist architecture, no? [twitter.com]

@KinteSpace Yes. I'm not sure about German but I think after WW1 the British decided to move away from Victorian and Edwardian architecture. Brutalism is definitely extreme

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