“Ryan Coogler Turns down offer to join The Motion Picture Academy” and other Tweeted Links…
Ryan Coogler Turns down offer to join The Motion Picture Academy (But do you agree?) [shadowandact.com]
Angelina Jolie Divorces Brad Pitt As World Continues to Crumble Around Them [wired.com]
It Took a Couple Decades, But the Music Business Looks Like It's Okay Again [entertainment.slashdot.org]
Trailer Premiere: New 4K ‘Battle of Algiers’ Restoration (Set for USA Theatrical Run) [shadowandact.com]
Award-Winning Short Film ‘Papa Machete’ Now Online (On the art of Haitian Machete Fencing) [shadowandact.com] @megafunkmega
Elmore James: Most Influential Slide Guitarist of the Postwar Period [blackthen.com]
Netflix plans to make half of its content original programming [arstechnica.com] @megafunkmega
interview with the lovely Lisa Fischer [youtube.com] @lisafischersing <= @BryanWilhite
.@mynameismarines reads "ready player one" so you don't have to [youtube.com]
on Kindle: White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America [amazon.com] [twitter.com]
Director Charles Burnett Talks In-depth About ‘The Glass Shield’ – His Most Explicitly Political Film [shadowandact.com]
MoMA Will Make Thousands of Exhibition Images Available Online [nytimes.com]
The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art [newyorker.com]
Student is almost pulled from desk, receives death threats after not standing for pledge [blavity.com]
“Students are not hard-wired to learn in different ways” [theconversation.com]
Kindergarteners Today Get Little Time To Play, and It's Stunting Their Development [science.slashdot.org]
What San Francisco Says About America [nytimes.com]
69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 in Savings Accounts [gobankingrates.com]
After key donations, GOP tried to keep poisoned kids from suing lead makers [arstechnica.com]
Holocaust Survivor: Trump Jr.'s Skittles Comment Brings Back Dark Images of Children Being Murdered [democracynow.org]
Walter Moses Burton: First Black Elected Sheriff in the United States [blackthen.com]
the Somali-Americans in St. Cloud [youtube.com] @ajh_books
Robot Snatches Rifle From Barricaded Suspect, Ends Standoff [hardware.slashdot.org]
In India, a Rich Food Culture Vanishes from the Train Tracks [npr.org]
Want to know how many times ancient humans migrated out of Africa? Check their genes [theverge.com]
Norway plans to cull more than two-thirds of its wolf population [theguardian.com]
If You Build a Censorship Machine, They Will Come [eff.org]
LIT History: Jesse Brown, a forgotten man from a forgotten war [blavity.com]
Mary Burnett Talbert: Civil Rights Advocate, Called “The Best Known Colored Woman in the United States” [blackthen.com]
Valve bans developer from Steam after it sues customers over bad reviews [arstechnica.com]
Dear Tech Companies: Focus on Diversity, Not Foosball [wired.com]
One of the world’s oldest biblical texts read for the first time [arstechnica.com]
W.E.B. Du Bois Creates Revolutionary, Artistic Data Visualizations Showing the Economic Plight of African-Americans [openculture.com]
World’s most valuable dye existed in Peru 1,800 years before anywhere else [arstechnica.com]
Barbara Johns: Led the First School Walkout of Its Kind in Farmville, Virginia [blackthen.com]
Uber's billion-dollar losses expose the fragile state of the on-demand economy [qz.com]
California Has a Staggering Amount of Pension Debt [bizjournals.com]
California removes limit on carpool access for plug-in hybrids [greencarreports.com]
Apple Japan Unit Ordered To Pay $118M Tax For Underreporting Income [apple.slashdot.org]
Japan has a worrying number of virgins, government finds [independent.co.uk]
First Black Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Organized in 1853 by a Freed Slave [blackthen.com]
What they didn’t tell you about the black barber in America [blavity.com] @blavity
5 Tips to stay mentally healthy in corporate America [blavity.com] @blavity
50 Years After Vehicle Safety Victory, Ralph Nader Talks "Silent Violence" by Corporations [democracynow.org]
Tesla Model S depreciates less, holds value better than most cars (not just electric cars) [greencarreports.com]
Why Africa gets filthiest diesel fuel: little regulation, global traders [greencarreports.com]
Drivers waste money on premium gas, AAA research finds [abc7.com]
Distant languages have similar sounds for common words [economist.com]
Bats are adapting their hunting strategies to the noise of our cities [theverge.com]
ARAYA’S PLACE – THAI VEGAN RESTAURANT and GRACIAS MADRE ---and more! [voyagela.com] @OvercookedVegan… [twitter.com]