Newsmakers Live! endorses Stacey Abrams for Georgia’s Primary Election
Written by Ashley Nelson Political Leader. Voting Rights Activist. New YorkTimes Best Selling Author. For the first time in history, Newsmakers Live-Journal endorses a political…
Could A Third Term Possibly Be What Atlanta Needs? Former Atlanta Mayor, Kasim Reed Makes His Bid.
Written by Ashley Nelson and Jim Welcome Atlanta, our nation’s cultural capital, home of the Black experience, Black excellence, and to what most would presume…
How a Legacy of Organizing Among Domestic Workers Helped Turn Georgia Blue
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.“You ever been here?” Yterenickia Bell asks me as we wait for the door to the Cascade Skating Rink to be unlocked. “It’s historic,” she says, ushering me out of the…
Stacey Abrams on Trump: “We Should Be Frightened, But We Should Also Be Fighting.”
Alyssa Pointer/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, sparked a national panic attack on Tuesday when he suggested to Time that he had personal insight into whether or not the 2020 election would take place, leaving room for some doubt. “It’s not my…
Exclusive: Stacey Abrams Says the Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery Was “Murder”
Mother Jones Illustration; Photo Courtesy of Fair Fight For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In exclusive interview with Mother Jones on Thursday afternoon, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams was clear about how she sees the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed 25-year-old Black man: It’s “murder,” she said. …
The Courts Won’t End Gerrymandering. Eric Holder Has a Plan to Fix It Without Them.
On a frigid March morning, Eric Holder strode into a brick union hall on the west side of Milwaukee, across from a credit union and an auto body shop. The Merrill Park neighborhood was once the center of the city’s Irish political machine, filled with stately Victorian houses—including the childhood home of Spencer Tracy—but it…