Here’s what we’re reading today:
• Voter registration in Ferguson spiked after the shooting of Michael Brown. Over 3,000 local residents have registered to vote since that day. [USA Today]
• A jury convicted Michael Dunn of murder—he’s the white man who fired multiple shots into a car full of black teenagers who were playing music in a parking lot, killing a 17-year-old. [Wonkette]
• The GOP is trying to reach out to women with… an ad about wedding dresses? [Slate]
• The department of education in warning school districts nationwide to address racial disparities or face investigation. Schools with predominantly white students are more likely to offer advanced classes—for example, only 66 percent of the schools serving the country’s highest concentrations of black and Latino students offer chemistry. [Colorlines]
• Schools are cracking down on a dangerous threat to students’ morality: yoga pants. [Salon]
• Facebook is apologizing to performers and members of the LGBT community after it cracked down on people not using their real names on the site. [Valleywag]
• Oh noooo! The latest victims of climate change are thousands of walruses in Alaska. [Washington Post]
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