0 What We're Reading Today (7-30-2014)

Here's Proof That the Anti-Abortion Movement Is Winning - The New Republic Lane Florsheim The New Yorker Stories You Should Read Before the Paywall Goes Up - Slate Eliza Berman and Slate Staff The Girls Obama Forgot - NY Times Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Time for an Equal Rights Amendment - Politico Alexandra Brodsky and Elizabeth Deutsch Moms Winning the Common Core War - Politico Stephanie Simon Get Out of Jail, Inc. - The New Yorker Sarah Stillman Sympathy for the Overdog - Slate Luke O'Neil RAND Helps to Develop From Coverage to Care, a New CMS Initiative - RAND Laurie T. Martin and David M. Adamson Transit of Tomorrow - Chicago...

0 What We're Reading Today (7-23-14)

Women Penalized for Promoting Women, Study Finds - Wall Street Journal Rachel Feintzeig How Questlove Is Bringing Music Back to Television - The Daily Beast Kevin Fallon A pause in global warming? Studies try to better explain what's happened - CS Monitor Pete Spotts We Can Code It! Why computer literacy is key to winning the 21st century - Mother Jones Tasneem Raja How America Finances the Destruction in Gaza -- and the Clean-Up - Mother Jones David Corn Jordan's Quiet Emergency - The Atlantic Alice Su I Hate Ayn Rand but here's Why My Fellow Conservatives Love Her - The Week Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry Why Black People Must Stand with Palestine...

0 What We're Reading Today (7-21-14)

Austin's Black Population Leaving City, Report Says - NY Times Corrie Maclaggan West Philadelphia, Reborn and Razed - Politico John Marchese What We Learned from Liberals at Netroots Nation - Politico Katie Glueck White Gay Man Publishes Epically Stupid Response To "Stop Stealing Black Female Culture" - Autostraddle Yvonne NYC Can't Afford to Build the Second Avenue Subway, and It Can't Afford Not To - City Lab Benjamin Kabak Your summer reading list: Rashida Jones, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bill and Melinda Gates and many more share their book recommendations - TED Katie Torgovnick May Why the Voting Rights Act Still Matters: The Case of Jasper,...

0 What We're Reading Today (7-17-14)

Jameelah has been harassing me everyday to give her articles to read. Jameelah, here is the dump. This should be like 20+ articles for  you and the rest of The Horde to consume. Happy reading and happier summers to everyone. With Friends Like These... On the Military Occupation of Chicago - Prison Culture What We Talk About When We Talk About Violence in Chicago - NPR Gene Demby Kafka's Joke Book - McSweeney's John McNamee Which Supreme Court Justices Vote Together Most and Least Often - NY Times Jeremy Bowers, Adam Liptak, Derek Willis The Democrats Are Finally Turning Away from Israel - Foreign Policy Michael A. Cohen Democracy,...

0 Dear Black Gays: Don't Get Comfortable

            To Ms. Sierra Mannie, who’s ***flawless piece implicating gay white men in misogynoir:  I stand with your rhetoric, your diction, and your argument. You have, in the canon of Black women, carved out a space demanding your visibility and affirmation in the face of erasure. In the space you have carved out, some queer Black men have had questions. I have had questions and I hope to offer my interaction to your work. The conversation you created is needed and urgent and my desire is to stand with you in the ways that I can.            ...