A Jim Crow–Era Murder. A Family Secret. Decades Later, What Does Justice Look Like?
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Joyce Faye Nelson-Crockett was 13 years old in 1955, dancing to a jukebox in the Hughes Cafe on a Saturday night in East Texas with her sister and her 16-year-old cousin, John Earl Reese. The boy had…
Why Are Successful Black Men Assumed to be Athletes or Entertainers?
Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan in May 2011Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.During a trip to Las Vegas, I arranged to interview a wealthy source in his fancy hotel suite. At the resort in question (and probably at all…
Hollywood Producers and Union Leaders Reach Deal They Hope Will Avert a Strike on Monday
A poster advocating union solidarity hangs this month from an office building in Burbank, California, housing IATSE Local 705.Chris Pizzello/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Union leaders and Hollywood producers have reached an agreement that they hope will avert a strike that…
Utah Protesters Claim Hospitals Are Killing People Who Have COVID
Protesters outside a Salt Lake City hospital October 16, 2021.Stephanie Mencimer/Mother Jones Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Greg Johnson is standing on the corner of State Street in suburban Salt Lake City, Utah, holding a neatly stenciled sign that says, “COVID-19 Protocols…
Why Are We Vaccinating Skunks Before Humans?
This skunk probably isn’t vaccinated, but others now are. Tayfun Coskun/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Florida skunks at a Tampa Bay zoo are getting COVID-19 vaccines before most humans on the planet have received their first shot. The location of this vaccination…
Watch Pete Buttigieg Eviscerate Tucker Carlson for Attacking Him About Parental Leave
Keiko Hiromi/AFLO via ZUMA Press Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Thursday night on his Fox News broadcast, Tucker Carlson attacked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for taking parental leave to care for his and his husband Chasten’s infant twins. “Pete Buttigieg has been…