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Sunday, June 17, 2018

A father’s perspective: Raising a black son in America

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Samuel Ranks Samuel

From the Undefeated -

Samuel L. Jackson RANKS Samuel L. Jackson
The film legend ranks his favorite characters of all time: 1 through 20

https://theundefeated.com/features/samuel-l-jackson-ranks-his-acting-roles/

What it's like to be the child of immigrants | Michael Rain

Love on the brain - Rihanna (sax cover Graziatto)

CARDI B ON VIOLIN?! DSharp

This Map Shows Where American Accents Come From

A history lesson

USC’s Kendall Ellis makes unreal comeback to win NCAA Track and Field Ch...

Model Olivia Sang on 'colourism' in the fashion industry - BBC News

Travel Through Kenya With These Five Stories

How This Woman Blows Record-Breaking Bubbles | WIRED

Mike Colter - Exploring His Bulletproof Character on "Marvel’s Luke Cage...

How 10 Different Movie Sounds Are Made

Saturday, June 16, 2018

I'll Be Seeing You - Billie Holiday (ukulele cover) | Reneé Dominique

12 Things Your Stool Says About Your Health

Exploring the Longest Cave System in Asia

New Rule: #BlueToo | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

The science of skin color - Angela Koine Flynn

He Flies!

Why the U.S. never got universal health care

The Journey Through Loss and Grief

Not New

An excerpt from the Huffington Post -

The United States’ Long History Of Separating Families Of Color
The disturbing practice is as old as slavery.
By Sara Boboltz

But as shocking as it is to see nearly 1,500 Latino children housed in a former Walmart adorned with a sketch of President Donald Trump, it’s not the first time American leadership has endorsed the separation of families of color.

America has been a place where children are torn from the arms of their parents since the time of slavery. (Alarmingly, the Bible verse cited by Sessions, Romans 13, was also used to justify enslavement.) As soon as they were old enough to work, young black children could be sold off. In many cases, these children never saw their families again.

Later, the U.S. decided to pursue a similar approach with Native American children, sending them to government-run boarding schools en masse in the late 19th century. Col. Richard Pratt, who founded the first such school, believed the establishments would help Native Americans assimilate into Eurocentric American culture. He lived by a motto: “Kill the Indian, save the man.” The boarding schools lasted into the 20th century.

Trump’s policy, it seems, is just the latest iteration of American leaders invoking government authority to keep families of color physically apart.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/history-separating-families-of-color_us_5b241a78e4b0f9178a9d1866

Monday, June 11, 2018

Lynchings in the Media

An excerpt from the NY Times -

How Northern Newspapers Covered Lynchings
By Charles Seguin

From the late 1800s well into the 20th century, thousands of people, mostly black and poor, were murdered by lynch mobs that sometimes burned their victims alive, castrated them or cut their bodies up into little pieces that were passed around as souvenirs.

Southern newspapers justified these horrors by calling lynching victims “fiends,” “brutes” or “ravishers,” leaving their guilt unquestioned. Lurid details of supposed rapes of white women by black men, often entirely fabricated, were recounted in Southern papers to justify, or even to incite, lynchings.

In a landmark move, The Montgomery Advertiser recently apologized for its role in justifying and promoting lynching. But many Northern papers were just as complicit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/northern-newspapers-lynchings.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

Honored When Dead

An excerpt from the NY Times -

Earlier this year in the White House, Trump signed a proclamation for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and lauded him for his choice to “courageously stand up for civil rights of African-Americans.”

That is precisely what Colin Kaepernick and the N.F.L. players are doing, and they are condemned for it just like King was. In 1966, Gallup found that nearly two-thirds of Americans held an unfavorable view of him.

King wrote in his 1963 “Letter From Birmingham Jail”:

“You may well ask: ‘Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”

Again, this is what the players are doing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/opinion/bull-connor-colin-kaepernick.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share

Brilliant

From Buzzfeed -

People Who Have Kids Will 100% Appreciate The Following 21 Inventions / Ideas
Just brilliant.
By Krista Torres

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/xx-things-only-people-with-kids-will-truly-appreciate?utm_term=.xn2L3maW7k#.pkrymv8QG4

Sunday, June 10, 2018

A Hundred Years of Coney Island: Then and Now | The New Yorker

Fly High With These Five Stories

Half & Half Braids With "Atlanta" Actress Zazie Beetz | ELLE

Coffee Break - Jonah Nilsson (feat. Richard Bona)

Scalloped Potato Roll

Dubai Builds World's Largest Airport - $82 Billion Al Maktoum with 250 M...

On Broadway: Lauren Ridloff

Official CasusGrill video

The Village Idiot

Saturday, June 9, 2018

Shoes Look Like Your Favorite Desserts

Winston Duke AKA M'Baku Talks About His Love For Black Women In ESSENCE'...

SAM SMITH - HIM | Kyle Hanagami Choreography

10 Gifts For New Parents Perfect For The Holiday Season

Baby Seat Makes Carrying Your Child Easier

How I Make Money to Travel the World (135+ Countries)

Love Blacktually

Bourdain Quotes

From Axios -

"If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food. It's a plus for everybody."

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”

“I’ve never seen someone enjoy a cold beer on a little plastic stool more than President Obama.”

https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-pm-b378cfa7-b89c-49e0-b3a1-060f69f9c125.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top

Consider This

An AirBnB Rental in Tennessee -

https://www.tripadvisor.com/VacationRentalReview-g55270-d11697413-A_Grand_View_5BR_Pigeon_Forge_Cabin_w_Hot_Tub-Pigeon_Forge_Tennessee.html

Michael Eric Dyson: What Truth Sounds Like | Real Time with Bill Maher (...

Obama With Bourdain

Dad Performs Ballet With Stage-Fight Stricken Daughter

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

How do you handle a toxic work culture?

Mamma T's Peach Cobbler by Freddie

THE OLD MAN AND THE GUN Official Trailer (2018)

Widows Trailer #1 (2018) | Movieclips Trailers

The History of Budapest In Three Cups

Oprah's New Book Club Pick: The Sun Does Shine, by Anthony Ray Hinton | ...

Jake Tapper: Trump lied about the Eagles

Trade wars, explained

Kanneh Mason's Ave Maria Rehearsal

Common Sense Teaching & Learning

From Upworthy - 



http://www.upworthy.com/this-teacher-s-reaction-to-a-sleeping-student-has-gone-viral-for-all-the-right-reasons

Monday, June 4, 2018

Bryant Gumbel: 'My Son Was Arrested for Walking While Black' (Aug. 6, 20...

Brian Courtney Wilson - A Great Work

Women ALWAYS overpack! || STEVE HARVEY

Were Slaves Really “Well-Fed”? Tour the Whitney Plantation and Find Out ...

Akala on the secret to eternal youth!

Compassion Personified

An excerpt from the Washington Post -

Former slave, on possible path to sainthood, to be entombed in Denver cathedral
By Meagan Flynn

On the streets of post-Civil War Denver, Julia Greeley was unmistakable as she stood at doorsteps of poor families in the middle of the night, pulling a red wagon behind her and wearing a floppy black hat. Because the former slave lost an eye as a child when she was whipped by a slave master in Hannibal, Mo., some people in Denver knew her as one-eyed Julia.

But most called her an angel of charity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/04/former-slave-on-possible-path-to-sainthood-to-be-entombed-in-denver-cathedral/?utm_term=.62c4ddda1e2c

Partying at 45,000 Feet

An excerpt from The Wall Street Bloomberg -

What Do Kids Do on Private Jets?
In the race to court customers, VistaJet is producing six-figure play parties at 45,000 feet.
By Adrien Glover

Like everything else staged in the back eight seats of the Global 5000 Bombardier business jet—including games of dominoes and croquet—it’s part of an extravagant (and expensive) tea party produced at a turbulence-free 45,000 feet. Up in the front section of the plane, three adults sip Ruinart Blanc de Blanc Champagne while checking email, completely undisturbed by the action a few rows back. They can’t even hear the children’s squeals of delight when it comes time to eat the chocolate truffles they made themselves by hand.

Welcome to the world’s first official Alice in Wonderland adventure in the sky.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/the-latest-private-jet-amenity-is-a-theme-party-for-your-children?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=bd&utm_source=applenews

Blood types are a 20-million-year mystery

Saturday, June 2, 2018

This Horrifying Roller Coaster In Japan Is Pedal-Powered

7 Extreme Yard Work Inventions

Golden Retriever is the Master of Self-Control

Charlamagne Tha God Weighs In On Ivanka Trump, New Book 'Black Privilege...

Monologue: Tweet Sorrow | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Unstoppable Sipi Tau meets immovable Haka

Quote

From the Huffington Post -

Renowned Economist Jeffrey Sachs Rips Trump As A Gibbering, ‘Delusional’ Threat
He calls for removal of the president using the 25th Amendment.
By Mary Papenfuss


“Trump is unwell and unfit to be president. He is a growing threat to the nation and the world.

“The emperor had no clothes. This president has no sense,” he concluded.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeffrey-sachs-slams-delusional-psychopathic-trump_us_5b11e510e4b0d5e89e1fc756?ncid=APPLENEWS00001

The First to Go

An excerpt from AXIOS -

Here's where jobs will be lost when robots drive trucks
By Lazaro Gamio, Gerald Rich, David McCabe

Truck drivers will be some of the first people to lose jobs as automation technology spreads.

https://www.axios.com/heres-where-jobs-will-be-lost-when-robots-drive-trucks-1513300554-58297c36-0cfb-4675-b3cd-9454d932ebbb.html

A Talented Slimeball