“Nixon Policy Advisor Reveals Drug War Was Created to Suppress ‘Anti-War Left and Black People’” and other Tweeted Links…

Nixon Policy Advisor Reveals Drug War Was Created to Suppress “Anti-War Left and Black People” [yourblackworld.net] via @yourblackworld

"I was ready for Africa to embrace me with open arms..." [qz.com] via @qzafrica [twitter.com]

Founder Matt Joseph Reveals the Racial Biases Black Founders Face in Silicon Valley [blavity.com]

Law was supposed to reduce discrimination. It made hiring more racially biased [washingtonpost.com]

ep.16 of @ForColoredNerds on the front lines of how white youth are protected from their heritage [soundcloud.com]

Strong Link Found Between Dementia and Common Anticholinergic Drugs (2015) [dddmag.com]

Towering Animal Portraits Haunt the Africa That the Creatures Once Roamed [wired.com]

true: but, Brittany, this describes entire lives of “beautiful” people [insert Prince lyrics here] [twitter.com]

Only 2.7% of all adults had all 4 healthy lifestyle characteristics [mayoclinicproceedings.org]

Staying in school longer does not mean higher earnings, study of school leaving age shows [telegraph.feedsportal.com]

The idea of a university as a free space rather than a safe space is vanishing [blogs.spectator.co.uk]

Nate Parker Launches New Film School at Historically Black Wiley College (Home of The Great Debaters) [blogs.indiewire.com] @floydwebb

After years of decline, music and arts programs at L.A. schools are hitting higher notes [topix.com] @junecarol_e

Why Were a NYC Mayoral Adviser & a 74-Year-Old Activist Jailed Overnight for Filming an Arrest? [democracynow.org]

westernized patriarchy is designed to turn women into confident, swaggering, individualistic cowards

“with so many cashing in on the meditation craze, it’s hard not to wonder whether something essential is being lost” [nyti.ms]

young, educated Black people that do not question the very concept of “race” are more into politics than science -socializing over progress

only those Blacks who have thrived in multi-generational crime families know what it's like to hide your true history from your children

@kimberly_inc@TamTamsWorld what should be the standard: he funds her seed capital; she takes that funding and starts a bigger business

Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries [nyti.ms]

A chilling mathematical model of inequality [sltrib.com]

instead of calling someone a “racist” consider the term ‘mono-cultural bias’ it’s more accurate and is free from the “race” concept

Blackness itself should be considered transitory, progressing toward a level of consciousness beyond “white” Buddhist comprehension.

a lack of street knowledge will trick you into thinking that all real Black people are “too angry” to be financially astute

that’s like saying a musician like Wynton Marsalis is “too jazzy” to master classical music -when the record shows the reverse

“Paying almost twice as much money clearly hasn’t solved San Francisco’s problems” [modernluxury.com]

Record companies made $2.4B last year from streaming, but it’s not enough [arstechnica.com]

Vernon Johns: Brilliant Preacher and Predecessor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. [blackthen.com]

Jermain Loguen: Chief Agent for the Underground Railroad in Syracuse [blackthen.com]

Alexander Twilight: First African-American to Earn a Bachelor’s Degree from an American College [blackthen.com]

Lunsford Lane: Entrepreneur, Speaker, and Anti-Slavery Agent of North Carolina [blackthen.com]

A Japanese graphic design magazine from 1901 [designer-daily.com] @tmrdevelops

A conversation with Brooklyn Musuem’s Rujeko Hockley about curation and collaboration ~> [artsatl.com]

“the purpose of novels is to bear witness to the spectacle of aloneness” [theatlantic.com]

MidiWriterJS – Generate Expressive Multi-Track MIDI Files in JavaScript @tmrdevelops [grimmdude.github.io]

We’re overpaying to save some endangered species—and barely funding others [arstechnica.com]

Good Riddance, Chemicals: Microbes Are Farming’s Hot New Pesticides @mindovermunch @overcookedvegan [wired.com]

Boeing’s Monstrous Underwater Robot Can Wander the Ocean for 6 Months [wired.com]

Space-Saving Furniture Concepts You Can Actually Build: How Häfele's Hardware Delivers "More Life per Square Meter" [core77.com]

Protect your melanin: The Korean-inspired skincare routine for #blackgirlmagic [blavity.com]

too many of us are 1st afraid to be Black then 2nd afraid to go beyond Blackness -and that’s why this Twitter feed is un-followed ^_~

@kintespace unfollowed 100+ accounts due to inactivity, assumed preferences of the account holder and demographic variability O_O

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