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[]( "BlackInformant [BlackInformant]") NAACP sues Capital One Bank, alleging discrimination in banking services [houstonchronicle.com]

Tenants Sue New York City Housing Authority: ‘We Have Let Other People Speak for Us for Too Long’ [nytimes.com]

The $2 Billion Bail Industry Is Facing an Existential Crisis -- "Local jails are full of people who can't afford ba… [twitter.com]

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled against a lawsuit filed by the EEOC effectively ruling that r… [twitter.com]

There’s a reason why the police union doesn’t want Pamela Price to be Oakland DA...She plans to overhaul the county… [twitter.com]

"If we want a more democratic society, we need more democratic schools." [jacobinmag.com] via @jacobinmag

Fighting Poverty, Drugs and Even Violence, All on a Teacher’s Salary [nyti.ms]

Ethiopia: Genzebe Dibaba Does It Again, Wins 2 gold in 3 days at 2018 World Indoor Championships… [twitter.com]

Anyone who claims to be "pro-worker" or better yet, an anti-capitalist, should definitely check out what's going do… [twitter.com]

We walked to honour people of African descent who walked in the #BlackGrange B4 us #BlackCanada @Walking_Lab… [twitter.com]

Wait. It really is possible to build a real, honest-to-goodness bike boulevard in Los Angeles County. Just not in t… [twitter.com]

DEBT SNOWBALL UPDATE - $184,677.39 | Stacey Flowers [youtu.be] => @BreakingBrown

The Price of Wonderland: Homeless Disney Worker Dies in Car [leftvoice.org] @LeftOfBlack @BreakingBrown

When Smoketown, Louisville, Kentucky’s oldest historically black neighborhood, started gentrifying, infographic... [fb.me]

Birthday of Zenzile Miriam Makeba “Mama Africa” (1932) #todayinblackhistory [twitter.com]

U.S. Supreme Court rules against citizenship for African Americans with the Dred Scott decision (1857)… [twitter.com]

On this day in 1955, Claudette Colvin, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, nine months before Ros… [twitter.com]

.@DukeU Professor Dispels Narrative of Black Women during Civil War [utdailybeacon.com] via @UTKDailyBeacon @DukeAAAS @DukeTrinity

March 3rd was the anniversary of Woodrow Keeble receiving the Medal of Honor posthumously. He's Dakota from my Trib… [twitter.com]

[]( "GEEZY. [GRYKING]") Remember when Israel supported South Africa’s apartheid regime? Good times. [twitter.com]

Echoes of Lynchings in Quiet Photos | The New York Times [kolumnmagazine.com] [twitter.com]

Maggie Lena Walker, lecturer, writer, activist, and philanthropist, was a pioneer. Born in 1867 to former slaves, s… [twitter.com]

Here's why China wants its citizens to have more babies - after decades of limiting families to just one child… [twitter.com]

I just want to say what a big deal it is to see all of these medievalists of color on a panel, discussing how to de… [twitter.com]

I have been fighting this on medievalpoc for five years, elsewhere for the majority of my adult life. I can't do th… [twitter.com]

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't get called "racist (against white people)" by a white person, because I… [twitter.com]

Aurora Consurgens (att: St. Thomas Aquinas or “Pseudo-Aquinas”) Zürich, Zentralbibliothek MS. Rhenoviensis 172 f. 3… [twitter.com]

[]( "Zifeng Liu [zifeng_liu]") Reading Gerard Horne’s exciting new book, published by @NYUpress #AfroAsianSolidarity [twitter.com]

Mother of Invention Animated Illustrations by Shyama Golden [africandigitalart.com] [twitter.com]

Liyana: Swaziland Animated Documentary [africandigitalart.com] [twitter.com]

Afro Combs inspired by African activists [africandigitalart.com] [twitter.com]

Kugali: An African Comics Anthology [youtube.com] [africandigitalart.com]

Meanwhile Miriam Makeba family out here fighting white South Africans to gain access to the rights to her music...m… [twitter.com]

This director has been nominated for an Oscar for a film about Emmett Till — and he’s still in school [undf.td]

Paul Beatty on Los Angeles Lit, The Sellout, and Life After the Man Booker [lithub.com] via @lithub

Will France's Museums Return African Art Treasures? [allafrica.com] #Africa #Benin #Nigeria [twitter.com]

Thank you to all "Cave Canem's Fellows & Faculty Exquisite Corpse" contributors, including: @mobrowne… [twitter.com]

Congratulations to all of the finalists for the @LambdaLiterary awards, among them, Cave Canem fellows Dawn Lundy M… [twitter.com]

Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History [aaihs.org] via @AAIHS… [twitter.com]

The Geography of Oppression: 'Shooting from a helicopter, the artist LaToya Ruby Frazier documented how King’s as… [twitter.com]

I am proud to present #BlackIsTheNewBlack, a celebration of 20 inspiring Black women, written by @Refinery29's Blac… [twitter.com]

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Where are all the films about poor Americans? [theguardian.com]

First Ever Black Vegan Festival Comes to New York [bit.ly] [twitter.com]

Since losing my father in September, people have been surprised when I say that he was my best friend because the… [twitter.com]

"Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to unde… [twitter.com]

"Black women in this country are viewed as perfectly acceptable and desirable for taking care of other’s people chi… [twitter.com]

Come on @Delta, 45 min delay on an international flight for cleaning of the plane? That's all the info you give, some of us have connections

In a Uber in #Berlin and he's playing #DrDre and #SnoopDog song "Still"... It's kinda a hilarious moment cause it's so unexpected.

They lost my luggage, and all I got was a white XXL t-shirt ... [twitter.com]

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