Saturday, August 17, 2013

0 What We're Reading Today (8-17-13)

'Dropping Science': Profile of the Science Genius Program - NewBlackMan (in Exile)
Mark Anthony Neal

The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries - New York Times
Dave Eggers and Nínive Clements Calegari

When the Lights Shut Off: Kendrick Lamar and the Decline of the Black Blues Narrative - LA Review of Books
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah

Bill De Blasio's Vision - New Yorker
George Packer

The Betrayal of Helen Thomas - Counterpunch
Barbara Lubin and Danny Muller

This Week in 'Nation' History: James Baldiwn's Four Decades of Prophecy, Confession, Emotion and Style - The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel

White is the New White - The Nation
Aura Bogado

Black leadership is missing from education reform - The Grio
Dr. Andre M. Perry

Kiese Laymon's Overdue Success Proves Publishers Can Change - NPR
Karen Grigsby Bates

#BlackPowerIsForBlack: Letters from Brothers Writing to Live - NewBlackMan (in Exile)
Mark Anthony Neal, Kiese Laymon, Mychal Denzel Smith, Kai M. Green, Marlon Peterson, Hashim Pipkin, Wade Davis II, Darnell L. Moore

Racial Profiling Lives On - New York Times
Devon W. Carbado, Cheryl I. Harris, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

The Problem with "Privilege" - Andrea 366
Andrea Smith

Tim Wise, informed by Tim Wise - Critical Spontaneity
Suey Park

Stop and Frisk, South Asians and Kal Penn's Tweets - Color Lines
Rinku Sen, Deepa Iyer

Kal Penn, Stop & Frisk, and Andrea Smith - Loud-Mouthed Bookworm
Ju-Hyun Matthew Park

Modern Loneliness, Explained - The Atlantic
James Hamblin

The Killing Machines - The Atlantic
Mark Bowden

Thanks Much! On the Geography of Language - The Atlantic
James Fallows

The One Chart That Shows the Importance of Egypt's Massacre - The Atlantic
Olga Khazan

Entrepreneurship: The Ultimate White Privilege? - The Atlantic
Jordan Weissmann

Can the GOP Fix Its Woman Problem in Time to Fight Clinton? - The Atlantic
Garance Franke-Ruta

A Texan Tragedy: Ample Oil, No Water - Mother Jones
Suzanne Goldenberg

The Misremembering of 'I Have a Dream' - The Nation
Gary Younge

Chaos and Bloodshed in the Streets of Cairo - The Nation
Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Having the Sexism Talk: Lessons for My Daughter - The Nation
Jessica Valenti

Race, Lead, and Juvenile Crime - Mother Jones
Kevin Drum

Egypt's Day of Rage - The Daily Beast
Sophia Jones

The Week's Best Longreads - The Daily Beast
David Sessions

Why the democratic spring lies closer to Iran than to Egypt - Al Jazeera
Shervin Malekzadeh

Generals and patrons: The American-Egyptian military - Al Jazeera
Marwan Bishara

Arab revolutions: Ignoring a potential catastrophe - Al Jazeera
Peter Hotez

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

Teach Trayvon: What's not in the Common Core & how to close the education gap - I Am an Educator
Jesse Hagopian

Study Links High Stakes Testing to Higher Incarceration Rates - The Real News Network
Jaisal Noor

Why Women Need Their Own Money - Alice Walker's Garden
Alice Walker

The Battle for Egypt - The Economist
The Economist

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