What I’m Reading This Week

Another edition of the links that caught my eye this week so far, and it’s been a rough one already. 

• “The New Racism” In Alabama, black lawmakers—and their constituents—are essentially powerless.
• This squad of Florida ex-cops polices the police. 
• What policing looks like to a former investigator of police misconduct.
• America Is Not For Black People.
• The abortion ministry of Dr. Willie Parker.
• A very good timeline of events that summarize what happened in Ferguson, MO after Micheal Brown was killed.
• An interview with Kanye West.
• What happens to people who get hit by foul balls at baseball games.
• The business of being Pitbull.
• Why President Obama has no love for the media.
• The very best of the Twitter “makeup transformations” LOL!