weekly links (april 24th edition)

Why A Michigan High School is Ground Zero for US Politics (MSNBC & BAMN)

Call to Save Our Schools (Dissident Voice)

Good Education is a Right, Not a Crime (The Root)

California Schools Move Towards LGBTQ History Lessons (RaceWire)

Three Hip Hop Scholars Talk About Combatting Homophobia (RaceWire)

The Class Dynamics of Asian America (Monthly Review)

US Racial and Economic Inequality Visualized (RaceWire)

Noam Chomsky: Is the World Too Big To Fail? (Common Dreams)

Robert Scheer: The New Corporate World Order (TruthDig)

Why The West Wants the Fall of Gaddafi (Dissident Voice)

Revenge of the Nerds: (Not So) New Representations of Asian Male Sexuality (Racialicious)

Mumia Abu-Jamal: On Reading Franz Fanon (I Am Not A Rapper)

Blaxpoitation's Baadassss History (The Root)

".. And Roses Too," or The Case for Public Arts Funding (Rebel Frequencies)

Slideshow: Crazy Stuff That Has Happened on 4/20 (GOOD)

George Takei Protests Akira Whitewashing (Racialicious)

Bruce Lee Art Made From MetroCards (Angry Asian Man)

The KO Hip Hop Cello-Beatbox Experience (YouTube)

J Dilla: A Documentary of Greatness (tonefresh)

Coachella Roundup: Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Kanye, Cee-Lo & more (OkayPlayer)

Mos Def "Umi Says" Live with The Robert Glasper Experiment, Lupe Fiasco & Kanye West (The Smoking Section)

weekly links (april 10th edition)

Stop Waiting For a Savior (NY Times)

On Teachers Calling Kids "Future Criminals" and the School-to-Prison Pipeline (Racialicious)

The Price of Choosing Jails Over Schools (The Root)

How the Racial Wealth Gap Hurts Children of Color (The Root)

The Link Between War and Big Finance (truthout)

Bolivia Enshrines Natural World's Rights with Equal Status for Mother Earth (UK Guardian)

Tony Porter: A Call to Men (TED Video)

On Diddy, Blockbuster and A Thing Called Karma (The Smoking Section)

"Don't Stop" and The State of the Supergroup (Passion of the Weiss)

Madlib's Trash is Another Man's Treasure (LA Weekly)

Janelle Monáe on Music and Being The Other (Racialicious)

weekly links (april 3rd edition)

The Straight Dope: Bill Moyers Interviews David Simon (Guernica Mag)

The US-Euro War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics (Dissident Voice)

Phllly's Got Love for Students, Too (RaceWire)

Monopoly Was Created to Teach Capitalism (Capitalism Is Over If You Want It)

The Collapse of Globalization (TruthDig)

Cesar Chavez and Migrant Farmworker Rights (Sociological Images)

Garden As If Your Life Depended On It, Because It Will (Dissident Voice)

More Black Men Imprisoned Right Now Than Enslaved in 1850 (The Root)

Where The Wu-Tang Clan Meets Jazz (A Blog Supreme/NPR Jazz)