“Why are millions of children not in school in West Africa?” and other tweeted links…

Why are millions of children not in school in West Africa? https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2019/08/millions-children-school-west-africa-190823203646385.html https://twitter.com/AJENews/status/1165096432367558656/photo/1

33 Days After Criminal Abduction: Sowore’s Wife Speaks, Demands Release Of Husband https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hz8j1QxG2A&feature=youtu.be #MUFC #Glazersout

An Invisible Crisis: Thousands of African Migrants Are Stranded in Mexico Hoping to Head North https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWVGHJ0RRh8&feature=share

Danish bank launches world’s first negative interest rate mortgage | Money | The Guardian

Jyske Bank will effectively pay borrowers 0.5% a year to take out a loan https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/aug/13/danish-bank-launches-worlds-first-negative-interest-rate-mortgage

“This Ruling Is Huge”: Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $572 Million for Fueling Opioid Epidemic http://www.democracynow.org/2019/8/27/oklahoma_johnson_and_johnson_572_million

#BREAKING Billionaire industrialist and political activist David Koch dies at the age of 79 https://abc7.com/politics/billionaire-political-activist-david-koch-dies-at-79/5487884/

Mar Vista post office neighborhood seeing needles, trash pile up amid growing homeless crisis http://abc7.la/2O3z1ED

Nearly 2 Million People in India Could Lose Citizenship in Biggest Disenfranchisement in History http://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/5/siddhartha_deb_assam_national_register_of https://twitter.com/droolindog/status/1169705516995612672/photo/1

"The phrase 'virtue signaling' only became popular with the 2016 US election."

"Virtue signaling" is something of a misnomer. It should really be called "power signaling," since it is mainly about asserting the hegemonic morality and ideology of the time. https://quillette.com/2019/09/02/virtue-signalling-may-annoy-us-but-civilization-would-be-impossible-without-it/

So now the inmates can literally run the asylum. This is not a serious state any longer.

CA now encourages raising a generation of spoiled and entitled kids who will never fit in a work environment.

https://abc7.com/education/ca-law-bars-suspensions-for-talking-back-to-teachers/5528236/

“Why is the regime unleashing such spectacular and effortful fury on a few candidates for offices with no power and next to no chance of winning in rigged elections?” https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/a-summer-of-unprecedented-brutality-in-moscow

As a OG at 59 I hated the drug gun takeover of the 1980s. I’m NOT talking bout weed. I don’t smoke but remember weed disappearing & cocaine coming to Rsvt 1977 guns in 78. USA hates a nigger with a memory. & I say that in context. Crack was the stew that we still recovering from

RT AACAP: Teenage girls are collecting “likes” on social media instead of making friends, write the authors of the classic “Reviving Ophelia.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-lonely-burden-of-todays-teenage-girls-11565883328 via WSJ

Check out AACAP's Facts for Families on Social Media and Teens.

“Children turn to screens because opportunities for real-life human interaction have vanished; the public places and spaces where kids used to learn to be people have been decimated or deemed too dangerous for those under 18.“ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/17/opinion/sunday/childhood-suicide-depression-anxiety.html#click=https://t.co/R2zfF4m8pB

2. Some black individuals are doing well, but the metric for assessing "progress" must be community wide status. There has been no improvement in the racial difference in maternal and infant mortality rates, unemployment rates, shares of wealth, family income since 1960.

@SandyDarity the way @MrChuckD said this decades ago:

our status is the saddest
i don't care where you at: black

Since the 1950s, a war waged by deed of title has dispossessed Black agricultural landowners of millions of acres, @fivefifths reports. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-land-was-our-land/594742/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Leopold II was a sadistic Belgian Emperor that occupied the DR Congo for 23 years. During this time he was responsible for the genocide of 15 million Bantu people.

While worse than Hitler, we don’t learn about him because he did this to Africans. https://twitter.com/_fmbk/status/1161205372901875712

what professor Bredan Simms is indirectly saying to Black people is to never underestimate the German-American experience—and the battle for white supremacy was literal https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/hitler-war-rivalry-anglo-america-britain-brendan-simms-podcast/ https://twitter.com/KinteSpace/status/1169647696065417221/photo/1

Is It Time to Upend the Periodic Table? https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/08/29/1933224/is-it-time-to-upend-the-periodic-table?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Just a gentle reminder that the fires in the amazon are intentional. It’s not a forest fire type situation. It’s an intentional setting ablaze of the forest by the fascist brazilian govt + agrobusiness & ranching oligarchs. Wording matters. Don’t hide who is doing this & why.

The largest rain forest on Earth has been on fire for 3 WEEKS. (You can literally see it from SPACE). Why are we just hearing about this today? Why is no one covering this? https://twitter.com/lgbtxluthor/status/1163782856688242689

I still miss you Los Angeles and unhealthy smog. https://abc7.com/society/southern-california-seeing-increasing-unhealthy-levels-of-smog-/5484384/

Netherlands opens world’s biggest parking garage for cyclists | https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/netherlands-open-worlds-biggest-parking-garage-cyclists-435030 https://twitter.com/cyclingweekly/status/1163533851777523712/photo/1

Chernobyl: the story of a tragedy https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/chernobyl-what-happened-story-causes-consequences-accuracy-drama/

[this disaster directly led to fall of the Soviet Union] https://twitter.com/KinteSpace/status/1166806281547468800/photo/1

One of the most important recordings in music history turns 60 today. Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was released on this day in 1959.

Which track remains your favorite to this day? https://twitter.com/jazzdotorg/status/1162740871143538691/photo/1

Newly-Discovered John Coltrane Album, Blue World, To Be Released in September: Hear the Title Track Now via @openculture #jazz http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/newly-discovered-john-coltrane-album-blue-world-to-be-released-in-september.html https://twitter.com/jazprose/status/1163615128069312513/photo/1

Breaking: Paule Marshall, celebrated American author notable for her debut novel 'Brown Girl, Brownstones,' has passed away, her agent confirms. She was 90.

Artist Camille Turner's installation at the Bonavista Bienale highlights how Newfoundland profited from slavery ⁦@afrofuturist⁩ https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-47-on-the-go/clip/15731673-confronting-newfoundlands-role-in-the-slave-trade

Bill T Jones walking folk through his archive that has just been acquired by NYPL for the Performing Arts. He’s still here, living and thriving with AIDS and still calling attention to the disease through his work at 67. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/arts/dance/bill-t-jones-archive.html

Opinion | Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/opinion/netflix-hulu-cable.html

"Marie Vieux-Chauvet was nitroglycerin. She set her sights on an illness ravaging Haitian society."- Dany LaFerrière

Dance on the Volcano by Marie Vieux-Chauvet, definitely one of my favourite fiction reads in 2019. https://twitter.com/RowenaMonde/status/1162082304270798849/photo/1

Y’all Toni Morrison is HILARIOUS. She got the spiciest takes.

She said: “navigating a wyt male world wasn’t threatening; it wasn’t even interesting. I am more interesting than they were. I knew more than they did. laughs & I wasn’t afraid to show it.”

-The Pieces I Am film

Women swept the Hugo Awards — again https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812571/hugo-award-2019-winners-worldcon-mary-robinette-kowal-best-novel-into-the-spider-verse?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter https://twitter.com/verge/status/1163530983779557376/photo/1

KFC Introduces a Beyond Meat Plant-Based Version of Their Famous Fried Chicken in Atlanta, Georgia http://dlvr.it/RC3Wf2 https://twitter.com/mercalisis/status/1166781639764037632/photo/1

“Glyphosate residues in grain, sugar and other crops are increasing recently likely due to the growing practice of crop desiccation just prior to harvest,… The secretive, illegal practice has become routine among conventional farmers since the 1990s. ” https://www.getholistichealth.com/78337/gluten-intolerant-glyphosate/

Survey: 20 percent of schools give kids less than 20 minutes for lunch https://abc7.com/health/survey-20%-of-schools-give-kids-less-than-20-minutes-for-lunch/5498728/

Me: "I wanna talk about child abuse, childism, and how adults - esp. parents - are largely shitty to black children."

Them: "People can do everything possible to raise children with all the love in the world and they can still--"

Me: "Okay, but we don't, so as I was saying..."

@wildfonts That conversation will not go very far in our communities, unfortunately. @DrStaceyPatton has been doing the work on child abuse and my research has focused on child sexual abuse and IPV. We are more likely to be called names rather than embraced for unearthing this violence.

@DrTJC I've followed Dr. Patton for years and seen the way people respond to the work she does. Just the other day, I was called "anti-black" for pointing out the victimization rates of black children and the frequency of that abuse resulting in death.

Don’t hope for anything. Hope is big business.

@SludgeMAG Replace the work “hope” with “develop” as a mental health exercise.😇 “Hope” spoken in public by people of color to a white majority sends signals of harmless stagnation, comfortably numb self-destruction, predictable mediocrity and maintenance of the status quo.

@sabrinamoella in 2013, i was 45 and more than ready to discuss the massive disadvantages of being a woman in patriarchy (but never took the advantages a small minority of women have seriously)—also Céline lived a life that most of my American sisters in California could only fake or front😬😇

@sabrinamoella the Himba people still wear a red ochre (?) sunscreen to this day and white people were not in existence to religiously make them do it—so my point is: go ’head, girl!😇