DCentric

Good morning, DCentric readers. There’s a lot to catch up on today in the news, so let’s get to it.:

Why a Pulitzer winner is coming out as undocumented Jose Antonio Vargas, a former Washington Post reporter, has joined the ranks of other undocumented immigrants in the growing coming-out movement. Many young people brought or sent here as children, such as Vargas, feel that “the more ‘out’ one is, the more support there is, especially if one is marked for deportation,” writes Leslie Berestein Rojas. (Multi-American)

Why Food Aid Still Matters A House subcommittee has taken aim at food aid for children and pregnant women in an effort to trim the budget. But some argue that such assistance actually saves the government money by preventing higher healthcare costs. (Post Bourgie)

With executive pay, rich pull away from rest of America Company executives are making way more money than their predocesors, and it’s them, the captains of the dairy industry and other “relatively mundane fields” who are making the gap between the rich and poor wider than ever before. (The Washington Post)

Is Internet access a human right? Prompted by uprisings in the Middle East, the United Nations has affirmed that access to the Internet is a human right. It’s an interesting perspective, especially as we Americans continue to grapple with our own digital divide. (San Francisco Chronicle)

Study Suggests Lighter Skin = Shorter Sentence for Black Female Prisoners A new academic study found that light-skinned black women convicted of crimes had, on average, prison sentences that were 12 percent shorter than dark-skinned black women. The researchers controlled for a number of factors and analyzed cases of more than 12,000 women between 1995 and 2009. (Clutch)