“Luvvie Ajayi Calls Out Facebook Exec, Sheryl Sandberg” and other Tweeted Links…

Luvvie Ajayi Calls Out Facebook Exec, Sheryl Sandberg, For Ignoring The Role of Black Women In Alabama Elections [okayafrica.com]

Important work by Jemima Pierre on Haitians detained under deplorable prison-like conditions in California. [twitter.com]

Thousands of folks have taken to the streets from Gabon, Cameroon, Benin, Mali and Senegal to demand the abolition… [twitter.com]

Study shows the median white household headed by a high-school dropout is wealthier today than the median black... [fb.me]

Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country[theguardian.com]

Brother @ToddStevenBurr1 did an excellent job putting the current West-Coates thing in a longer arc of similar stuf… [twitter.com]

Quit playing, y'all. The hood don't even know who a Ta-Nehisi Coates is, never heard of him. Cornel West, on the ot… [twitter.com]

Geek consumerism: How nerds are pressured to constantly spend money | AFROPUNK [afropunk.com]

Doctor bias in the delivery room hurts one group of women the most [a.msn.com]

“Black women are rarely afforded the freedom to just exist. We catch it on both sides (race and gender). We are kno… [twitter.com]

A historian is unearthing records of where Portlanders of color couldn’t legally live[medium.com]

Who Americans spend time with as they age (x axis=age)[qz.com] [twitter.com]

[]( "Robert Enck [astro_puppy]") This is big: "the team inserted small, biodegradable sponges made of collagen soaked in Tideglusib into cavities.… [twitter.com]

On this day in 1999 we lost one of the most influential musician of all time. RIP Curtis Mayfield. 🙏🏾 [twitter.com]

On 'Star Wars' and the Ponzi scheme of racial inclusion [buff.ly] [twitter.com]

Keen to interrogate this further. View of #Africa #tech and #startup scene including nascent database on… [twitter.com]

Why Amazon delivers small things in huge boxes occasionally [twitter.com]

There's just a handful of poetry libraries in the world, and the Poetry Foundation’s 30,000-volume library in Chica… [twitter.com]

Meet Marie Dutton Brown, one of the longest-standing black gatekeepers in the pub industry. This year marks her 50t… [twitter.com]

My Editor Was Black -- Debut author Naima Coster on working with Morgan Parker, the whiteness of publishing, and li… [twitter.com]

How Black Artists, Dealers, and Collectors Are Boosting the Careers of Their Younger Peers [artsy.net]

[]( "Frank Deale [fdeale]") Art by Women Sells for 47.6% Less Than Works by Men, Study Finds [hyperallergic.com]

A little known fact about They Live is that John Carpenter, as opposed to hiring extras to play homeless people, hi… [twitter.com]

This year through my own trials I've learned that persistence and purpose are really crucial to having a fulfilling life.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." ~Voltaire#QOTD #USA2017

Scifi shows get technology so wrong. You discover an ancient alien spacecraft and turn it on, the first thing it's… [twitter.com]

[]( "I'm an Owl. 🦉 [TheRossYork]") If Janet has time to text back, you have time, bitch. [twitter.com]

[]( "hiba [iatemuggles]") I'm pissed I wasn't taught this [twitter.com]

A machine learning algorithm walked into a bar. The bartender asked, "What would you like to drink?" The algorithm… [twitter.com]

Yes fortune cookie, yes. [twitter.com]

Don't let anyone ever tell you that one person alone can't make a difference. On Tuesday, Perman Hardy spent 10 hou… [twitter.com]

rasx()