“Rep. Maxine Waters Forced to Cancel Events After ‘Very Serious Death Threats’” and other Tweeted links…

Rep. Maxine Waters Forced to Cancel Events After 'Very Serious Death Threats' [buff.ly][twitter.com]

A 28-year-old Democratic Socialist just ousted a powerful, 10-term congressman in New York. @Ocasio2018#Election2018#nyc[cnn.it][twitter.com]

BREAKING VIDEO!!! MORE THAN 20 CARS BURNT WITH PEOPLE INSIDE IN NIGERIA... My Heartfelt condolences to those families whose loved ones Died in the horrific Fire at Otedola , Lagos in Nigeria. I Pray for Nigeria #ENGBEL#Gainwithxtiandela[twitter.com]

Senegal has been hacked and pushed all game but getting all the yellow cards.

This court will likely end up 7 to 2 conservative, and stay a conservative court for a generation. Eventually undoing 💯 years of American progress. @BreakingBrown@SandyDarity@DUSocialEquity@DarrickHamilton@KWCosby[twitter.com]

"Some of the debt may be repaid, but what is happening now is the debt is being used as an economic weapon to force privatization & other profitable reforms. So it becomes the weapon that is used to demand the privatization of the electricity system..." [jacobinmag.com]

The modern education system was designed to train future factory workers to be "docile" | @AllisonSchrager[qz.com] via @qz

California housing many detained immigrant children [abc7.com] via @ABC7

Sativa Water District manager on leave over reports of fake supporters [abc7.com] via @abc7 => @ava

Multi-family residential building taking shape in Santa Monica [abc7.com] via @ABC7

Report: 657 million needed to end LA homelessness [abc7.com] via @abc7

Water’s Edge building nearly complete in Playa Vista [abc7.com] via @ABC7

Going for Broke, the Middle Class Goes Broke [nyti.ms]

“The University also paid a Penn professor for work done by an enslaved man whom he owned, and sent faculty members to raise money from slave-owning families. “ [twitter.com]

A silence surrounds the history of slavery in Canada. My doc on CBC Radio's Ideas programme unpacks it in Part 1, tonight. Part 2 next Thursday. [bit.ly]

So excited to be a part of this important doc. Thank you Kyle. [twitter.com]

HistoryExtra: The national debt dilemma [historyextra.com]

This episode of History Extra, “the history of manners,” clearly define what “civilized” means (coupled to an interesting exploration of racist thinking) for structured conversations: [historyextra.com]

California just passed one of the toughest data privacy laws in the country [theverge.com] via @Verge

@DrTJC Yeah, you can literally, scientifically search for phrases like “slave ship cabin boy” and see how little this American tradition is referenced. Right now, I can only think of that scene from Toni Morrison’s BELOVED.

“AFTER HARSH CRITICISM, FACEBOOK QUIETLY PULLS SERVICES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES” [theoutline.com]

Rosa Guy's novel The Friends is one of the best books ever written about young women growing-up in Harlem in the '60s. Read about the life and times of this amazing author. [catapult.co]@CatapultStory@wellreadblkgirl[twitter.com]

Today marks the 30 year anniversary of Public Enemy's album 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.' [twitter.com]

Rutgers University-Newark Acquires the Archives of Jazz Legend #CountBasie: [jbhe.com] via @jbhedotcom

Scott Joplin’s 'Treemonisha' is woefully underperformed, so it’s pretty great to watch @TayZonday performing an interpretation of the opera’s finale! [bit.ly]

And the call for submissions for the second issue of PREE: Caribbean. Writing. is now live. Aug 15 is the deadline! The theme is 'Pressure'. Image by Leasho Johnson [preelit.com][twitter.com]

How “Black” Is Your Science Fiction? A Review of andré m. carrington’s Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction | @imeanswhatisays[newblackmaninexile.net][twitter.com]

Mercurio D. Rivera Interview [youtube.com]@davebarrkirtley

Across the Event Horizon by Mercurio D Rivera @mercuriorivera[amazon.com][twitter.com]

Vandana Singh Interview [youtube.com]@davebarrkirtley => @rinceya@digitalafrican

Ambiguity Machines: and Other Stories [amazon.com] by Vandana Singh [[vandana-writes.com]] [twitter.com]

Carrie Mae Weems: Kitchen Table Series [amazon.com][twitter.com]

Ashley Bryan's Puppets: Making Something from Everything [amazon.com] => @digitalafrican[twitter.com]

Watch “Building a City Museum without walls through community collaboration” [Karen Carter] on #Vimeo[vimeo.com] => @RowenaMonde@afrofuturist@digitalafrican

architect Minsuk Cho at USC [youtube.com]

Crow's Eye View The Korean Peninsula [amazon.com][twitter.com]

@beautifuldeson1 There was a novel that was written before your mother was born called NATIVE SON that was supposed to educate and enlighten—therefore PROTECT you and your mother from such poverty. We have failed to protect you.

Can vegan food have New Orleans soul? New eatery makes a case with lunch plates, gumbo [bit.ly] via @theadvocateno[twitter.com]

Whitewashing [twitter.com]

People-pleasers are liars. People who back track are liars. The truth needs no explanation and it stands alone. Stand by what you say and especially by what you do...

"We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible."-Thomas Merton

@xodanix3 @ajh_books Imperialism cannot exist without egocentrism/hyper-individualism. Imperialism institutionalizes the individual, in ordinal procession starting with the emperor protagonist. Listen how modern English uses the word I (ego) as an everyday mantra of captivity.

@KinteSpace @ajh_books Yep!

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