0 What We're Reading Today (11-17-13)

Up in Arms - Tufts Magazine
Colin Woodard

Foucault Explained With Hipsters - Binary This

They Loved Your GPA and then they saw Your Tweets - New York Times
Natasha Singer

Beyond 'I'm Sorry': 5 Ideas to Help Make Obamacare Work - The Atlantic
Garance Franke-Ruta

Can the Defense Budget Shrink Without Risking National Security - The Atlantic
Eric Schnurer

The Grand Old Tea Party - The Nation
Rick Perlstein

Black Voters, Not Gender Gap, Won McAuliffe Virginia - The Nation
Zerlina Maxwell

The Ideal Husband - NY Review of Books
Susan Sontag

Nothing Was The Same: on Drake and the white boy imaginary - The Indy
Sam Rosen

Richard Cohen in Context - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ideas - The Paris Review
Patricio Pron

Looking Back at Malcolm X's Message to the Grassroots Speech Delivered 50 Years Ago Today - Davey D's Hip-Hop Corner
Davey D

The Case for International Law - Foreign Affairs
Harold Hongju Koh and Michael Doyle

Hillary's Nightmare? A Democratic Party That Realizes Its Soul Lies With Elizabeth Warren - The New Republic
Noam Scheiber

The Many Battles of Harry Belafonte - The New Yorker
Jelani Cobb

0 What We're Reading Today (10-5-13): The "Logan Stayed Home Sick" Edition

Italy Breaks Your Heart - New York Times

Frank Bruni

The Man Who Invented the Calendar - The New Yorker

B.J. Novak

White Folks Are Telling You to Kiss Their ... - Ebony

Jamilah Lemieux

Who is Black? - One Drop

Yaba

The Article that Nails the Arrogance and Stupidity of the Drug War - Alter Net

Robert Kahn

'In a Starving, Bleeding, Captive Land' - The Atlantic

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Homecoming at Howard - New York Times

Ta-Nehisi Coates

'What Are Clothes?' Asks Most Delightful Supreme Court Argument in History - The Atlantic

Megan Garber

Why Are American Schools Still Segregated? - The Atlantic

Eleanor Barkhorn

50 Photos of JFK - The Atlantic

Pot Reform's Race Problem - The Nation

Carl L. Hart

The Scandal of Racist Marijuana Arrests -- and What to Do About It - The Nation

Harry Levine

Poverty in America is Mainstream - New York Times

Mark R. Rank

Kanye West Unreleased 2002 Interview

When It Comes to Fighting Stereotypes, I want my Kids to Dare to be Impolite - The Atlantic

Ama Yawson

Emancipating Hollywood - Vanity Fair

James Walcott

Oprah Talks to Maya Angelou - Oprah

Oprah

0 What We're Reading Today (10-6-13)

Studying How the Blind Perceive Race - NPR
Kat Chow

No More Allies - Black Girl Dangerous
Mia McKenzie

"Scandal's" racially charged motto: "You have to be twice as good as them" - Salon
Neil Drumming

"Twice as Good": Channeling Black Parenting on 'Scandal' - NewBlackMan (in Exile)
Mark Anthony Neal

Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Eyes US Shutdown, Expresses Doubt Over Nuclear Negotiations - The Daily Beast
Christopher Dickey

Mexico's Female Vigilante Squads - The Daily Beast
Katie Orlinsky

A Few Words on The New York Times's Few Words on Afros - Observer
Rebecca Carroll
(New York Times' words on afros)

1 in 3 Black Males Will Go to Prison In Their Lifetime, Report Warns - Huffington Post
Saki Knafo

Hillary Clinton: It's Not Her Turn - The Nation
Richard Kim

How "Jezebel" Smashes the Patriarchy, Click by Click - Mother Jones
Tasneem Raja

Where Are the Uninsured Americans Who Will Benefit From Obamacare? - The Atlantic
Ronald Brownstein

Muhammad Ali's Most Formidable Opponent Was the US Supreme Court - The Atlantic
Allen Barra

Republican States Cut 'Food Stamps' As Feds Promise Not To - Color Lines
Seth Freed Wessler

Obama and the Washington Football Club and (Of Course!) Lanny Davis - The Daily Beast
Michael Tomasky

Daniel Radcliffe's Next Trick Is to Make Harry Potter Disappear - New York Times
Susan Dominus

Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark - Dissent
Katie J.M. Baker

Voice and Hammer - VQR Online
Jeff Sharlet

Roma Immigrants Have Set France on Edge - The Daily Beast
Christopher Dickey, Alice Gulhamon

How Disney Ruined Sex For Everyone - Mark Manson
Mark Manson

We're Not Lovin' It - Jacobin
Michole Aschoff

The Vice of Selfishness - Jacobin
David V. Johnson

The Decline of the American Empire - Jacobin
Doug Henwood

Energy Efficiency: How the Internet can lower your electric bill - Christian Science Monitor
David J. Unger

Spain looks set to drop its fascist-inspired extra hour - Christian Science Monitor
Andres Cala

The 'smartest' city in the world: Santander, Spain? - Christian Science Monitor
Sara Miller Llana

Those Calls Had Come Before: An American Love Story - Gawker
Candace Mitchell

New York Times Still Not Funky Enough for Daft Pink - Gawker
Max Rivlin-Nadler

Can Wendy Davis turn a red state blue? - Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera

Can We Please Bury "Stop the Violence" as a Slogan?  It's Meaningless - Prison Culture
Prison Culture

Scientists Used Facebook For The Largest Ever Study of Language And Personality -- And The Results Are Groundbreaking - Business Insider
Michael Kelley

Why Are There Still So Few Women in Science? - New York Times
Eileen Pollack

Once Alienated, and Now a Force in Her Husband's Bid for Mayor - New York Times
Michael Barbaro

Rich People Just Care Less - New York Times
Daniel Goleman

0 What We're Reading Today (9-28-13)

Yeezy, Drake, TFA, AmeriCorps, Rich folks, Chicago, Education

Why Kanye is Right, And Kimmel emblematic - Storify
Ayesha A. Siddiqi (@PushingHoops)

The Worst Part Of the Kanye-Kimmel Saga? It's Hardly Surprising. - Huffington Post
Kia Makarechi

Kanye West Isn't Joking Anymore - Pitchfork
Ernest Baker

Watch/Listen: Kanye West's Full Interview With Zane Lowe - Pitchfork
Evan Minsker and Jean Pelly

I Quit Teach for America - The Atlantic
Olivia Blanchard

Plutocrats Feeling Persecuted - New York Times
Paul Krugman

Breaking the Cycle of Anger - The Nation
Marie Myung-Ok Lee

The Young, Low-Wage, Temporary Disaster Relief Army - The Nation
Max Rivlin-Nadler

Students Take On Teach for America -- and Its Political Allies - The Nation
StudentNation

Why We Write About Oppression - The Nation
Mychal Denzel Smith

Big Ghost Ltd Presents The Nothing Was The Same Review - Big Ghose Limited
Big Ghost

A Conversation With Drake at NYU Gets Very Real, Very Fast - Grantland
Rembert Browne

Is James Baldwin America's Greatest Essayist? - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

All the Starships Scaled to Size - Gawker

The curious case of Alice Walker - Michigan Daily
Zeinab Khalil

How Bad Is Violence in Chicago?  Depends on Your Race - The Atlantic
Noah Berlatsky

What Combat Feels Like Presented in the Style of a Graphic Novel - The Atlantic
Evan Parsons

The Case Against High School Sports - The Atlantic
Amanda Ripley

0 What We're Reading Today (9-25-13)

Today is a day of cultural awareness, and creative intrigue. Some collections of music and visuals and interviews from Kanye to 80's Graffiti. Also my girl Solange makes a cameo.

Listen, look and feel.

The 50 Best Rap Album Covers of the Past Five Years, Dale Eisinger et al., Complex

'It Could Have Been Me': The 1983 Death Of A NYC Graffiti Artist, Erik Neilson, CodeSwitch

“I’m Just A White Girl In This World” — On Hip-Hop’s White Girls and Internet Novelty, Kendra James, Racialicious

Gender Bending, Genre Mashing, Elvis Geisha, Lady Man, Andrea Mary Marshall, Dodge and Burn

Kanye West's Zane Lowe Interview, Michael Hann, The Guardian

A Conversation With Drake at NYU Gets Very Real, Very Fast, Rembert Browne, Grantland

On Following Football, Listening To Rap, Watching P*rn, And Feeling Like Sh*t, Damon Young "The Champ", Very Smart Brothas

When Afrocentric Art Goes Wrong: Merchandising the March on Washington, Terryn, PostBourgie

And the aforementioned SOLANGE: 

Started from the bottom, now we're queer.
-Jay

0 What We're Reading Today (9-22-13)

Sorry for the long wait.  Teaching is.... hard.

New York Times: Voices for Equality - New York Times

The Reality of Black Male Privilege - The Grio
Theodore R. Johnson

In Which You Have No Idea What They've Endured - This Recording
Alex Carnevale

When Your (Brown) Body is a (White) Wonderland - Tressiemc

When Peace Becomes Obnoxious - MLK and the Global Freedom Struggle
Martin Luther King Jr.

Rosen: The 2013 VMAs Were Dominated by Miley's Minstrel Show - Vulture
Jody Rosen

How school privatization hawks Teach for America promote Israel - Electronic Intifada
Max Blumenthal

[ENOUGH] Keep Chicago Out Your Mouth - Ebony
Joshua Adams

Are Black Names 'Weird,' or Are You Just Racist? - The Daily Beast
Jamelle Bouie

Electronic Dance Music's Love Affair With Ecstasy: A History - The Atlantic
P. Nash Jenkins

Brad Paisley and the Politics of Offense and Offense-Taking - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

How the NFL Fleeces Taxpayers - The Atlantic
Gregg Easterbrook

A Rising Tide Lifts Mostly Yachts - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Trayvon Martin Was a Victim of Black-on-Black Crime - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

George Zimmerman's Way Is the American Way - The Nation
Gary Younge

The Art History of Drake: Influences on Nothing Was the Same's Cover - The Fader
Naomi Zeichner

US F-22 Stealth Fighter Pilot Taunted Iranian F-4 Phantom Combat Planes Over the Persian Gulf - The Aviationist

Right-Wing Ideologues in Texas: Not American Education's Biggest Problem - The Atlantic
Noah Berlatsky

Respectability Politics Won't Save Us: On the Death of Jonathan Ferrell - The Nation
Mychal Denzel Smith

The Patriarchy Lives On - The Nation
Bryce Covert

Trayvon Martin medical examiner to file $100 million lawsuit against state - Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera Stream Team

How Gothic Architecture Tok Over the American College Campus - The Atlantic
Robinson Meyer

Whistling Vivaldi Won't Save You - Slate
Tressie McMillan Cottom

0 What We're Reading Today (8-24-13)

College Football's Most Dominant Player? It's ESPN - New York Times
James Andrew Miller, Steve Eder, and Richard Sandomir

Taking Middle Schoolers Out of the Middle - New York Times
Elissa Gootman

Thriving on Chaos, Manziel Shocks a Traditional System - New York Times
Campbell Robertson

Profiting from Racism? Reflections on White Allyship and the Issue of Compensation - Tim Wise
Tim Wise

How my white mother shaped me into a black man - Melissa Harris-Perry
Albert L. Butler

The Economics of Hook-Up Culture - Policy Mic
Michelle Juergen

An Intimate Look at the March on Washington- The Atlantic
Garance Fanke-Ruta

Which Colleges Should We Blame for the Student-Debt Crisis - The Atlantic
Jordan Weissmann

America's Imperial Disdain For the Emerging World - The Atlantic
Zachary Karabell

On the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, a New Civil Rights Movement Emerges - The Nation
Ari Berman

Open Letter: How I Failed Chelsea Manning - The Nation
Aura Bogado

'Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society' - Common Dreams
Chelsea Manning

Will There be Justice for NYPD Victim, Ramarley Graham? - The Nation
Lucy McKeon

New York City Council Overrides Bloomberg's Veto of the Community Safety Act - The Nation
Francis Reynolds

Reducing Racial Inequality in Our Justice System - The Nation
Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)

A Long List of What We Know Thanks to Private Manning - The Nation
Greg Mitchell

34 Photos from the March on Washington 50 Years Ago - Buzzfeed
Andrew Kaczynski

A new generation of activists fights injustice, from school cuts to Trayvon Martin - Chicago Reader
Mick Dumke

50 Years After the March on Washington, Many Racial Divides Remain - Pew Social Trends

Every Protest on the Planet Since 1979 - Foreign Policy
J. Dana Stuster

A dream unrealized for African-Americans in Chicago - Chicago Reader
Steve Bogira

Yasiel Puig is a bad guy?  Sounds familiar - SB Nation
Mike Bates

How I Met Your Mother - The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates

No, for the Love of God, Johnny Manziel Isn't Rosa Parks - The Nation
Dave Zirin

Teach for America Apostates: a Primer of Alumni Resistance - Truth-Out
Owen Davis

The Problem With Quick Fixes to Education - New York Times
Alex Caputo-Pearl

Open Letters to Reformers I Know. Part 8: Wendy Kopp - Teach For Us
Gary Rubinstein

Open Letters FROM Reformers I Know. Part 2: Wendy Kopp - Teach for Us
Gary Rubenstein (posting a letter from Wendy Kopp)

From the Mailbag: A Teach for America Defector Speaks - Cloaking Inequality
Julian Vasquez Hellig