“Whole Foods employees demand Amazon break all ties with ICE and Palantir” and other tweeted links…

Whole Foods employees demand Amazon break all ties with ICE and Palantir http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/theverge/aSui/~3/kDhwY-uGC5I/whole-foods-employees-amazon-ice-protest-palantir-facial-recognition?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nswint

Quick question,

If “illegals” are lazy freeloaders just leaching off the system,

Why does ICE always raid workplaces?

UCLA hospital worker awarded $1.5 million in racial harassment lawsuit https://abc7.com/society/ucla-hospital-worker-awarded-$15-million-in-harassment-suit/5453517/ via @abc7

Today's @ABC7 "Eyewitness This": Kaiser Permanente's California workers vote to approve a strike, "Friends" episodes are coming to the big screen for the show's 25th anniversary, and the fast-food chains offering up new menu items: https://abc7.com/business/eyewitness-this-kaiser-permanentes-california-workers-vote-to-approve-strike/5464941/

Health insurance is not synonymous to health care.

Having health insurance doesn’t guarantee the quality of care or access to care.

Many insurance plans are deeply restrictive and continue to creat barriers to accessing actual care.

I knew the El Paso shooter was a white man when they started talking about how the brain isn’t fully formed at 21. Because they treat black children like adults at 9, 10, 11, and 12.

Lesson plan from @ZinnEdProject on redlining.

How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/how-red-lines-built-white-wealth-color-of-law-lesson via @ZinnEdProject

Had the honour of talking to my mum about the books that I grew up as part of a @BBCRadio4 doc on the British Black Panthers. The legacy of #BlackStudiesBCU is the community education that we had to develop ourselves. Airs on Aug 3 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0007b0y?fbclid=IwAR1cc8Iayyb_rzs3knP1y3StP60IPeFbkZd9IgKRCxKAMIA6_3z-CiW7M04 https://twitter.com/kehinde_andrews/status/1156294860057579521/photo/1

Racist POTUS isn't new or even all that shocking. But at least they used to attempt to hide it!

National Archives releases Reagan's racist call with then-President Nixon, ex-Nixon library director says

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/31/politics/ronald-reagan-richard-nixon-monkeys-african-countries/index.html

Don’t get caught not here next year. The thought of climbing into these pyramids, visiting and studying dozens of tombs, temples, museums and assorted other Nile Valley locations may seem daunting, but it can be done. We’re doing it right this moment. #HUStudyAbroadKemet2019 https://twitter.com/AfricanaCarr/status/1157998096950931456/video/1

Before heading into an extended consideration of women in Ancient Kemet (Egypt), Dr. Watkins uses a recent Ancestor and Jegna of hers, Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, to consider how we re-think questions of gender. #HUStudyAbroadKemet2019 https://twitter.com/AfricanaCarr/status/1159546459810750464/photo/1

@AfricanaCarr Yes, it continues to amaze me how this ancient idea that every human is alive because an organization of wise women designed for it totally redefines what “a woman’s right to choose” once was. It implies that a man is only “king” because women designed for it😇

Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile blows up, creating “mini-Chernobyl” #tech https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/russian-nuclear-powered-cruise-missile-blows-up-creating-mini-chernobyl/ https://twitter.com/ArabianScience/status/1161041230417006592/photo/1

This "makes LightSail 2 the first spacecraft to use solar sailing for propulsion in Earth orbit, the first small spacecraft to demonstrate solar sailing, and just the second-ever solar sail spacecraft to successfully fly, following Japan's IKAROS in 2010" http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/lightsail-2-successful-flight-by-light.html

This is a roaring glacial melt, under the bridge to Kangerlussiauq, Greenland where it's 22C today and Danish officials say 12 billions tons of ice melted in 24 hours, yesterday. https://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1157015875276464129/video/1

Racism As A Mental Illness (2001) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ5NxmOmHhs&feature=youtu.be

@Reelblack Decades ago Dr. Amos Wilson warned us about suggesting that racism has no rational roots: http://kintespace.com/player.html#/audio/libradio02

Ignoring the planning and conspiracy at the roots makes shit magical and mysterious, a perfect theater set for the typical white liberal (of all skin colors)😇

Race is a “made up” social construct used to divide not unite. We can’t have a real conversation about race in this country until we all acknowledge the fact that it’s not real, “it’s made up”

@AyeeshaGreen @IsiahThomas Yup, the greatest export from the Victorian age. The folks with the most Neanderthal DNA literally turned the definition of humanity on its head. It was either Hobbiton or Sauron😇

PBS will begin streaming on YouTube TV later this year #tech https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/07/pbs-will-begin-streaming-on-youtube-tv-later-this-year/ https://twitter.com/ArabianScience/status/1155973933801201665/photo/1

Using fractal prisms to create other worldly portraits http://dlvr.it/RBBrhB https://twitter.com/jsunmorrow/status/1161509531626758146/photo/1

Trove of Stunning Dance Photography Now Online -- An alliance between dance impresario #AlvinAiley and photographer #JackMitchell yielded more than 10,000 images https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/trove-stunning-dance-photography-now-online-180974031/ #TheBlackerTheArchive

We look back on the life and career of the Greek artist Takis, who used magnets to create pioneering and entrancing kinetic art, who has died at 93. http://bit.ly/2YUhlkh https://twitter.com/artnet/status/1161433257063387136/photo/1

You probably haven’t been to the #hollyhockhouse designed by famed architect Frank Loyd Wright. Trust me, it’s worth touring with great views and amazing history. It’s now LA’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site! Great report @abc7johngregory @ABC7 https://abc7.com/society/hollyhock-house-las-1st-unesco-world-heritage-site/5433321/

Toni Morrison. Such a beautiful, thoughtful soul. She enriched many lives💖. https://twitter.com/StaceyBell4NY/status/1158800344194998273

I'm in solidarity with all the Black women crying in public places today.

I loved Jadine in Tar Baby, and I loved Toni Morrison for giving us complex black women characters we could relate to ❤️ Tar Baby- Toni Morrison https://wordlandscapes.wordpress.com/2016/04/30/tar-baby-toni-morrison/ via @RowenaMonde

"Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God."

• Toni Morrison (1931-2019) https://twitter.com/cavecanempoets/status/1158778230079447041/photo/1

If Tyler Perry and Lee Daniels did a movie together, what would be the plot?

A Black woman with 3 PhDs just purchased a condo. The doorman tells her to smile more on the day her husband runs away with a 20 yr old.

Then somehow falls in love with the doorman after he asks her to do laundry at her place & robs her. She gets cancer to learn humility. https://twitter.com/IAmBumblebee/status/1158825808804372488

Two African Men by Rembrandt van Rijn #art via @dailyartapp

In the Dutch 17th century, Africans were usually depicted as secondary figures or enslaved. But Rembrandt has made them the main subject; presumably these were free men who lived in Amsterdam https://twitter.com/jazprose/status/1159662769823801344/photo/1

@KinteSpace @jazprose @DailyArtApp Not sure but I'm currently studying Rembrandt's Prodigal Son at the behest of Henri Nouwen

@jazprose @RowenaMonde @DailyArtApp Yes, the symbol of the map in works of the period was a subtle, still-life reminder of Dutch colonial commerce which requires the defamation and distortion of the colored “other” to justify the theft.😇 Now I am wondering whether Rembrandt ever painted a map in his work. ...?

@RowenaMonde @jazprose @DailyArtApp Young Woman with a Water Pitcher Jan Vermeer

c. 1664-65

[ah, memories of art history class...] https://twitter.com/KinteSpace/status/1160076230546227200/photo/1

@RowenaMonde @jazprose @DailyArtApp who is this chap Spencer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4eA1PfdFTs

“most books published in the US before 1964 are in the public domain!” https://www.crummy.com/2019/07/22/0

Ethiopia and Eritrea’s Long History With Lasagna. Despite its ties to Italian colonialism, lasagna still occupies an important place on dinner tables in the Horn of Africa, and for immigrants settled in the United States http://bit.ly/2HNPzy9 @ethiopienne https://twitter.com/soulphoodie/status/1159833238459813889/photo/1

'Made from navy beans, the pie was developed by Black Muslims in the Nation of Islam in the 1930s. The history of why they created it, and what it represents, tells one of the most essential stories about Muslims in America.' https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2018/07/the-bean-pie-tells-one-of-most.html via @Slate https://twitter.com/NewBlackMan/status/1156023700589707264/photo/1

Just overheard while walking past Benjamin Banneker Recreation Center pool in northwest DC:

One little girl to her friend: “I am your full elder.”

Neither one of them was older than 10 years old.

You gotta #LoveBlackChildren

Old white dude at the airport didn’t know I had a 1st class ticket—Tried blocking my way, sure he was on before me.

When I excused myself past him he demanded “How the hell are you getting on before me?”

I tapped his Zone 3 Coach ticket with a smile “Because you’re ghetto.” 😎

Instead of being jealous of another woman, ask her how she did it. You never know her journey unless you've walked in her shoes.

@BougieBlackGurl It's a great thing to say but very hard to do when one has never seen this behavior before at all. Most children learn by physical example and grow up to pretty much do what they physically felt as experience. Too few of us can realize from evidence unseen.😇