Friday Round Up (01/27/12)

On Fridays, we post a round up of the week's happenings.

Feel free to contribute your own links in the comments section, or submit items you feel should be included during the week. Self-promotion is encouraged. 

Weekly Round Up:

• I Continue to Fail “The Poor”

• Sale Cereal: Seasonal vs. Perpetual/Generational Poverty

• The 4709th Lunar New Year:  The year of the black water dragon

• Income Inequality Is Bad For Society: Really Bad.

• Voter Suppression: The New Disenfranchisement

• Slumlords Conspire To Avoid Building Maintenance

• The Racially Coded Language of Presidential Candidates

• NY Cops’ Camera Caught Them Allegedly Planting Evidence in Driver’s Car

These are some of our links of interest this week. What are yours?

See Also:
Red Tails: Using privilege for good?
Tuskegee Airmen
Etta James (1938-2012)