0 What We're Reading Today: Finals Distraction Early Morning Edition (5-10-13)

Check up on it, more thought provoking news and music musings as we awake on the last day of finals:


No More Fake News, Luke O'Neil, New Republic

How labels like 'black' and 'working class' shape your identity, Adam Alter, The Week
Proof that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Had Assimilated? He Spoke Black, John McWhorter, The New Republic
On Behalf Of [BLANK] People Everywhere ... Gene Demby, NPR

Hip-hop’s infatuation with Assata Shakur: It’s complicated,  Chuck 'Jigsaw' Creekmur, The Grio

Shonda Rhimes on TV’s Lack of Diversity: ‘I Think It’s Sad, and Weird, and Strange’, Jamilah King, Colorlines

Images of a Scarred Chicago, Jozen Cummings, The Root

Live in Infamy, Hamza Shaban in New Inquiry, posted by 3QuarksDaily.com 

also, I haven't been to sleep in approaching 20 hours so: