oh my god it is the third friday in a row.  and i am putting out links.  hurrah!

• African Paint Board Art

• NCLR Report Finds Latino Students are “Missing Out”
• Guatemala : Accusing a President of Murder and Arresting Twitter Users
• Canada’s integration problem is racism, not multiculturalism: study
• True Grits
• Nigerian Human Rights Activists Organize the First Annual International Day Against Homophobia
• The spirituality of my hair
• Original ABWs: Nina Simone
• The Princess and the Frog and the Critical Gaze [Essay]
• Whites engage in more racist acts after declaring support for Obama, study finds.
• Book Contests
• Just words?: Human rights and the White House
• Pushing Back, Moving Forward: The Struggle for Gender Equality in Iran
• A Festival I Won’t Be At In August
• Disaster rolls on
• Shocker