What I Read This Week – 01/12/2015

Welcome to 2015! Happy New Year!

This is the first link post of the new year so let’s get to reading:

• What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Taught Me About Being a Stay-at-Home Dad: A young lawyer puts his former boss’s ideals into practice.
• Billboard profile of Kendrick Lamar (with comments about Iggy Azalea).
• Inside the service economy class: the barista trap.
• The War Over Hollywood Sign Pits Wealthy Residents Against Urinating Tourists.
• THE CODE: A DECLASSIFIED AND UNBELIEVABLE HOSTAGE RESCUE STORY: How the Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages… using a pop song.
• Surprise, surprise: Black NYPD cops get racially profiled too.
• How White Flight Ravaged the Mississippi Delta.
• The Secret History of Women in the Senate.
• Profile of actress Taraji P. Henson and her new role in the FOX series, Empire.
• Two stories about Ava DuVernay, director of Selma.
• The NYPD’s ‘Work Stoppage’ Is Surreal.
• When a Patient’s Death is Broadcast Without Permission.
• Popular ESPN anchor Stuart Scott died last week after a 7 year fight with cancer. Here’s a profile of his life and here’s how the network put together a tribute to him.
• The Rise of the Black British Actor in America.
• ‘We Out Here’: Inside the New Black Travel Movement.
• Michael Brown Sr. and the Agony of the Black Father in America.
• The rise of the classic hip hop station.
• Houston Hip Hop Pioneer Bun B Expands Business Portfolio (love this dude!)
• Before-and-after maps show how freeways transformed America’s cities (often destroying black/urban communities I might add).
• Plus-Size Fashion Moves Beyond the Muumuu.
• The End of Gangs.
• Behind the scenes (in pictures) of the network morning shows.
• Profile of Houston Texas wide receiver, Andre Johnson.
• Profile of former old school MC and current DJ/photographer D-Nice.
• Perfect for us starting off the New Year with weight loss resolutions: What 2000 Calories Looks Like.
• The Secret World of Stolen Smartphones, Where Business Is Booming.
• The Birth of A New Civil Rights Movement.