“Uncomfortable Truths Behind California’s Economic Surge” and other Tweeted Links…

Uncomfortable Truths Behind California’s Economic Surge - WSJ [wsj.com] => @thelagirl, @LAist

Democracy is in crisis, but blaming fake news is not the answer | Evgeny Morozov | The Guardian [theguardian.com] => @mmbilal

F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charge in Emissions Scandal - The New York Times [nytimes.com]

The Dangers of Marrying an Immigrant – Medium [medium.com] » @TamTamsWorld

The Real Reason Your City Has No Money — Strong Towns [strongtowns.org] => @ElvinaBeck, @Curbed

2014: Living Las Vegas: Sun Belt cities offer new take on race | Al Jazeera America [america.aljazeera.com]

The Economist explains, man: Why Amsterdam’s coffeeshops are closing | The Economist [economist.com]

The truly insane people are in Congress. Trying to pretend this all is normal. Our govt is crumbling.

A bunch of white people are mourning the loss of a country that was always a fiction.

Melba Roy - Female Computer | Melba Roy headed the group of … | Flickr [flickr.com] => @iAyori,… [twitter.com]

Anne Moody: Civil Rights Activist & Author of "Coming of Age in Mississippi" | Black Then [blackthen.com]

Debunking the Gandhi Myth: Arundhati Roy [youtube.com] => @CultureShockArt, @drboycewatkins1, @HeirToZamounda, @WorldProfessor

Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition [amazon.com] => @RowenaMonde [twitter.com]

Jill Elaine Brown: First African-American Woman to Serve as a Pilot for Major U.S Airline [blackthen.com] => @HoodFeminism

How ‘Sherlock of the library’ cracked the case of Shakespeare’s identity | Culture | The Guardian [theguardian.com] => @RowenaMonde

CT Fletcher - True Life Story [youtube.com] => @Hood_Biologist, @lacommons, @tonetalks

The Elaborate Wig-Snatching Schemes of the 18th Century | Atlas Obscura [atlasobscura.com] => @TamTamsWorld

#IdaBWells, Afri-American journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s [twitter.com]

Need a Math refresher?? => “Learning AI if You Suck at Math” by Daniel Jeffries [hackernoon.com]

mapping gun violence | The Guardian [tumblr] [guardian.tumblr.com]

Shahrazad Ali - 7 Attributes of a "Good" Black Woman [youtube.com] => @RoEloriCutno, @blkeducator

Why You Shouldn't Trust Geek Squad - Slashdot [yro.slashdot.org]

Cob House Surrounded by Geodesic Dome in the Arctic Circle [mymodernmet.com] => @digitalafrican, @designmilk, @ElvinaBeck

Human population will peak in 2065 - Google Docs [docs.google.com] => @WorldProfessor

2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping - Slashdot [science.slashdot.org] => @shasnie

Future rice yield losses due to climate change could be extreme | Ars Technica [arstechnica.com] => @Hood_Biologist, @shasnie

James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe's fantastic forgotten conversation about the political power of art:… [twitter.com]

Tiffany Chung on 'Brilliant Ideas' [youtube.com] => @mikemassenburg, @aiww, @digitalafrican, @vernissagetv, @PaksGallery

This artist creates 3D art using paper and pen only - Designer Daily [designer-daily.com] => @r_kobina, @DesignObserver, @NicoleMCrowder

Cuba, America, Black Fine Lines, Magic Mind and the Real | The Huffington Post [huffingtonpost.com] => @OneikaTraveller, @WorldProfessor

A Joan Miró-Inspired Animation of Federico García Lorca’s Poem, “Romance Sonámbulo” | Open Culture [openculture.com] » @megafunkmega

“How the brain perceives rhythm” | MIT News [news.mit.edu] => @HipHopGoldenAge, @tejucole, @MrChuckD, @AugustFanon

This woman turned the FBI files on her Black Panther father into art [buff.ly] [twitter.com]

The film that got a 10-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival #sc [bit.ly] [twitter.com]

they straight-up jettisoned Vader's meditation chamber... #carrionspike => @TheApexFan [twitter.com]

Plantain Granola | @BlackFoodie [blackfoodie.co] » @hotforfood, @sweetpotatosoul

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young bruh, her skin has that nasty aftertaste because she does not know how to take care of it from the inside out #AlkalineDiet

young bruh, yes: I do see a correlation between economic poverty and being passively black but active science can be rich Dark Matter

young bruh, being Black makes you sensitive to the outsider and an idealist of justice FOR ALL -nothing to do with being a cliquish bitch

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