“Safeway Calls Police on Black Woman Giving Food to the Homeless” and other tweeted links…

Safeway Calls Police on Black Woman Giving Food to the Homeless After Mistaking Her for a Shoplifter [atlantablackstar.com] via @atlblackstar

Black Panther Party Co-Founder Elbert 'Big Man' Howard Dead At 80 [okayplayer.com]

I was at Target today buying 30 notebooks for my class. A man in front of me asked if I was a teacher and when I said yes, he told the cashier he was paying for my notebooks. My heart really needed this...to be reminded that there are genuinely kind people left in the world. ❤️

Rent in Kumasi Ghana 🇬🇭 for a 4 bedroom, 4 bath, fully furnished home is US $315. Compare that to $1,449 on average for the Atlanta suburbs. Thats why Kumasi made our top 5 travel list. For the other 4 cities on our list, check out [goo.gl][twitter.com]

The billion-dollar prison phone industry has drawn increased scrutiny in recent years. Now all calls in New York City from jail will be free. [nyti.ms]

Nearly 50 vehicle break-ins per week reported in West Hollywood [abc7.com] via @ABC7

Body of Olivia Lone Bear Found in N. Dakota as Native Women Face Crisis of Murders, Disappearances [democracynow.org]

Florida teacher quits job to become full-time shopper [abc7.com] via @abc7

Mar Vista residents call for action after homeless shooting [abc7.com] via @abc7 => @megafunkmega@khemenutwilhite

Largest wildfire in California history is burning now [abc7.com] via @ABC7

I cannot see people who cant accept @KingJames as the great that he is. They must have a problem surely they do.

When Black Farms Blossomed on the American Frontier -- "Historian Anna-Lisa Cox traces the westward journey of America's Black pioneers - as a first Great Migration of African American farming settlements spread across the Midwest" [newblackmaninexile.net] via @thisishellradio[twitter.com]

A siege. A bomb. 48 dogs. And the black commune that would not surrender [theguardian.com]

"White Arkansans, fearful of what would happen if African-Americans organized, took violent action, but it was the victims who ended up standing trial" [smithsonianmag.com] via @SmithsonianMag

The Negro Silent Protest Parade July 28, 1917 10,000 Black men & women marched down New York's 5th ave WE OWN 250,000 FARMS WITH 20,000,000 ACRES of LAND WORTH $500,000,000 This march was 101 years ago yesterday. What happened to the land? Let that sink in for a moment 👨🏾 [twitter.com]

Racism at American Pools Isn’t New: A Look at a Long History via @NYTimes[nytimes.com]

The #HowardU#HUStudyAbroadKemet2018 team arrives on the Giza Plateau to begin today’s exploration of Old Kingdom sites. Here we are at the Hor em Akhet, also known as the “Sphinx.” The entire complex was used for pharaonic burial rituals and dates back at least 4,600 years. [twitter.com]

Standing at a statue of Ramses II in the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis while listening to #LouisArmstrong ‘s “West End Blues” on Pops’s birthday: Priceless. #AfricanaMeaningMaking#ShiftParadigms#LongViewGenealogies#NileToMississippi#WeveKnownRivers[twitter.com]

The next time somebody tries to argue about the “race of the Ancient Egyptians,” show them some photo of these four thousand year old human hair wigs. Tight curls and micro braids like this are clearly African. #HUStudyAbroadKemet2018#HairCulture#NaturalAintNothingNew[twitter.com]

@AfricanaCarr Sometime during my lifetime I look forward reading about Black people finally talking casually and frequently amongst ourselves about more advanced basic topics such as «yes, Cleopatra looked like Lisa Bonet but by her behavior with Caesar and MarkAnt was she really Black?»

American history is so poorly taught that people do not realize that to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments and Civil Rights laws, it took federal military force. Reconstruction needed federal occupation of the South. Desegregating schools required the National Guard.

Happy Independence Day to Burkina Faso! 🇧🇫 . . . Burkina Faso means “Land of the Honorable People.” ✨ [twitter.com]

'#RonDellums, a Marine turned antiwar activist and ground-breaking Democratic politician, was never one to walk away from a fight, no matter who started it.' [sfgate.com]

Remembering Ron Dellums: The Radical Congressmember Who Fought Against War, Apartheid & Poverty [democracynow.org] via @democracynow

8/5/1914: first electric traffic lights, invented by Garrett Morgan, were installed in Cleveland, Ohio. #BlackHistory#AfricanHistory#BlackTwitter[twitter.com]

How America uses its land [flowingdata.com]

Great Pyramid of Giza can focus electromagnetic energy through its hidden chambers, physicists reveal [independent.co.uk]

Australia adds one person per minute as population angst swells [bloomberg.com] via @BWiT_ALL

Heat and Humidity Slow Down High-Frequency Trading Due To Microwave Links [news.slashdot.org]@slashdot

News: Cummins issues diesel emissions recall larger than VW's [greencarreports.com]

Zillow now lets you apply for apartments and pay rent online [theverge.com] via @Verge

Nile: decentralized, commission-free, local-economy focused Amazon alternative #78@github[github.com]

Under Trump’s EPA, asbestos might be making a comeback [fastcompany.com]

Hottest Rain on Record? Rain Falls at 119°F in Imperial, California [wunderground.com]

It's James Baldwin's birthday. Go write something... [twitter.com]

COLA 2018 [artillerymag.com] Thank you, #jodyzellen

'Sorry to Bother You' Director Blasts Foreign Distributors for Refusing to Carry a "Black Movie" [hollywoodreporter.com] via @thr

Director Says Distributors Are Rejecting Sorry to Bother You [vulture.com]

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Zweig! Sartre! hooks! Fromm! Today's library haul 📚 [twitter.com]

"For it's always that way with the sacred value of life..." ~Stefan Zweig [twitter.com]

@RowenaMonde the darkness among the stars is of the gravitational curvature holding the universe together; in the blackness of the atoms is The Witness

If I read another Black poem “longing” for America, I may lose it.

@ddehewty Langston Hughes gets a pass but any bullshit after the 1930s is pseudo-renaissance, democratic-convention, white-patron poo.

Such sensationalist statement is not only analytically unhelpful - it is also irresponsibly dangerous. Violence is not black thing, nor is it the metaphor for irrational, barbaric, ‘primordial’ African violence that the Western psyche seems to have an insatiable need for. [twitter.com]

@Ajairah1 Humanity (African wisdom-based cultures) is based on biological altruism; humanity would not exist without this profound love beyond love. Imperialism is based on the fascist “liberty and freedom” to fuck a mufukka up. One is divine womanhood the other is about being a bitch.

young bruh, i was married to a brown, latina, formally-trained ballet-and-modern dancer so this amateur pole dancing stuff really does deserve my condescension

young bruh, my formative years were all boys all the time so the gender-inequality damage done to most girls was done before i met them—all the fears, self-censorship, the devaluing, skin-color politics heavy-set in stone, “waiting” for a “strong” man to lift away: me, useless

young bruh, the OG Roman intent inside the word “proletariat” is that the product of your loins is born to work for someone else—now it should be senatorially clear why underclass white girls cannot have an abortion

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