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A very special Links We Love, brought to you by guest writer Summer Anne Burton

Here is a very special SXSW edition of Links We Love, brought to you by Summer Anne Burton:

Springtime means it's almost baseballtime! Two awesome art projects: hand pressed letterprint baseball cards by Amelie Mancini and the Infinite Baseball Card set by Gary Cieradkowski.

Jay-Z played a SXSW show last night and no one anyone knows actually got in. But you can watch the entire set online.

Fake Pinterest @ Twitter "Miraculous surgery lets colorblind boy experience rainbow cake."

Make sequin eggs this Easter! Why? Because everything is better with sequins. Duh.

The official rules of spoilers — this is important, seeing as Mad Men starts up again on March 25.

Kitty POV cam! Watch the trailer for CatCam, and if you're attending SXSW Film, go see it for the rest of us.

"I like Oh-Heavens, my-gracious, land's-sake words, such as tricksy, tucker, genteel, horrid"

Anthony Bourdain is in town and he ate at Franklin, naturally.

In related news, red meat is bad for you.

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Summer Anne Burton is a freelance writer and illustrator and an Alamo Drafthouse server who has lived in Austin for over twenty years. She is drawing pictures of Every Hall of Famer.

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Thanks, Queen Bey

Pop icon Beyoncé donates $100,000 to University of Houston Law School

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Pop megastar Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has donated $100,000 to the University of Houston Law Center Criminal Justice Clinic through her BeyGOOD Foundation. The gift will allow the clinic to hire fill-time faculty to head it, benefiting the students who study there.

“I am delighted that the BeyGOOD Foundation has made this very generous gift to the UH Law Center,” said Leonard Baynes, dean of the UH Law Center. “Not only will this funding help establish a full-time criminal justice clinic that provides pro bono legal services in our community, but it will also supercharge our already excellent criminal law and justice programming.”

The clinic is one of nine at UHLC. It helps students learn to navigate the criminal justice system, especially on behalf of clients that are underserved by skilled attorneys. People of color are affected disproportionately by a lack of good, ethical representation.

Beyoncé, the most decorated artist in Grammy history and easily the biggest musical star native to Houston, has a long history of advocating for criminal justice reform. She was a staunch supporter of the police reform following the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, asking law enforcement to “stop killing us” in a web post. In 2020, she penned an open letter to the Kentucky attorney general asking for justice in the death of Breonna Taylor.

Through her BeyGOOD Foundation, established in 2013, Beyoncé has focused mostly on expanding the prospects of Black-owned business and offering education opportunities to students. Forwarding the cause of legal representation in Texas while also helping out marginalized communities compliments her other philanthropic work.

“At UH Law, we envision a legal profession where ‘everyone has the opportunity to prosper,’ as BeyGOOD envisions, and we will achieve this vision by providing access to strong and effective legal representation in criminal proceedings,” Baynes said. “And together, through this gift, the BeyGOOD Foundation and UHLC will shepherd the next generation of criminal justice attorneys in the city of Houston, the state of Texas and the nation.”