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