“Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age” and other Tweeted Links…

Explaining the Lack of Quality Journalism In the Internet Age [news.slashdot.org]

Al Jazeera America to shut down in April [blavity.com]

A Revolutionary Wordsmith [brownalumnimagazine.com]

Wallace Henry Thurman: The Man Who Penned the Expression “The Blacker the Berry” [blackthen.com]

Fred Hampton: Social Justice Advocate Assassinated By The FBI [blackthen.com]

More People In Europe Are Dying Than Are Being Born [politics.slashdot.org]

Jockey Cheryl White: Broke Racial Barriers for African Americans in Horse Racing [blackthen.com]

#RapeCulture: Why prison rape is a clear & present danger that threatens us all @KWestSavali [theroot.com] [twitter.com]

Janet Harmon Bragg: First African-American Woman to Hold a Commercial Pilot License [blackthen.com]

James “Coody” Johnson: Leading Advocate for Black Native Americans and Dual Citizenship [blackthen.com]

Phyllis Wheatley Women’s Club & Homes: Established to Empower Black Women http://blackthen.com/phyllis-wheatley-womens-club-homes-established-to-empower-black-women/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss

See a horrible accident? Bill would bar you from posting about it for an hour [arstechnica.com]

VA GOP files bill to “verify genitals” of students using school restrooms [blavity.com]

Uber relaxes restrictions on nonviolent criminals becoming drivers in California [theverge.com]

Teen Hacks US Intelligence Chief's Personal Accounts [it.slashdot.org]

Today In Black History On January 16th – NASA Names Three Black Astronauts [blackthen.com]

Yasiin Bey arrested in South Africa for fake passport [blavity.com]

Japan Refuses to Pay Zaha Hadid for Her Axed Stadium Design [wired.com]

Get to Know Alejandro Aravena, the Pritzker Prize Winner Who Builds Half-Finished Homes [wired.com]

Black Photographer's collective Kamoinge’s Half-Century of African-American #Photography http://nyti.ms/1mHZB4L #visualculture

This Artist Creates Impressive Conceptual Illustrations That Are Both Complex and Minimalistic [layersmagazine.com]

10 Dope black artists who should style your house [blavity.com]

Research highlights racial bias in doctor-patient care [blavity.com]

Who is most responsible for high abortion rates? The religious right. @monbiot [monbiot.com]

Why Chinese Factories Fare Poorly in the U.S. [newyorker.com]

China to attempt a space first: Landing on the far side of the Moon [arstechnica.com]

MUBI brings indie film streaming to China [theverge.com] @megafunkmega

If Americans spend more on healthcare, why do Costa Ricans live longer? [arstechnica.com]

Catch the sun’s energy with these solar roof tiles [designer-daily.com]

Anna M. Mangin: Invented the Pastry Fork in 1891 [blackthen.com]

Finally, your homemade food can start paying your rent for you #diy #food&drink #cooking #home/made #iphoneapp [brokelyn.com]

Chipotle’s Health Crisis Shows Fresh Food Comes at a Price [wired.com]

Rock rings reveal surprising new insights about North America's climate past [gizmodo.com] [twitter.com]

A group of mysterious humans left these tools in Indonesia over 118,000 years ago [arstechnica.com]

@djspooky back in the day, in our olden times, concepts like "faith" and "evolution" were not necessary #tellchildrentruth

The new space race - five key competitors [telegraph.co.uk]

Fighting Environmental Racism in North Carolina [newyorker.com]

NFL owners approve Rams, Inglewood stadium proposal [abc7.com]

Building an African diaspora tech scene in the D.C. area may only be a matter of time. [citylab.com]

Give teachers a physics test from a woman and they’ll give her worse grades [arstechnica.com]

Flint, Michigan’s water supply is testing at levels of “toxic waste” [blavity.com]

Help Is On the Way In the War Against Noisy Leaf Blowers [tech.slashdot.org]

Despite some locale renaming, “Yosemite National Park” trademark dispute persists [arstechnica.com]

Yosemite's famed Ahwahnee Hotel to change name in trademark dispute [abc7.com]

Low-fiber diets mess up gut microbes—and changes can become heritable [arstechnica.com] @overcookedvegan

4 foolproof ways to protect your natural hair this winter [blavity.com]

5 Non-Boring Ways to Show Off Your Vacation Photos [blogs.adobe.com]

Go back to Hoth with this surprisingly great Star Wars fan film [theverge.com]

Xbox Live is down, and Snoop Dogg is threatening to leave for PlayStation [theverge.com]

Eric Schmidt, for one, welcomes our new robot overlords [theregister.co.uk]

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