The “Machine That Eats Up Black Farmland”
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.Once, Valee Taylor and Renee Stewart’s family was among the largest Black landowners in North Carolina’s Orange County, a rectangle of farm country running north from Chapel Hill. In the 1930s,…
This Land Is Not Your Land
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.Since the inception of the United States, the government has helped make sure land stays in white hands. In the decades after slavery ended, Black Americans accumulated a substantial amount of…
Great, Now Even Our Skies Are Full of Tiny Plastic Particles
Matthias Bein/picture alliance via Getty Images 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.This article was originally published on Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. IF YOU FIND yourself in some secluded…
“Somebody’s Baby Is Still Not Coming Home”: MoJo Readers Process the Chauvin Verdict
Brandon Bell/Getty 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.Of the many ways readers responded to Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict—with cautious relief, strength, pain, and recognition of the vast work still ahead—one comment got straight to the heart…
House Passes a Bill to Make DC a State
J. Scott Applewhite/AP 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.For the second time ever, the House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make Washington, DC, the 51st state. The bill, HR 51, which would finally…
Biden Calls to Cut US Emissions in Half by 2030
April 22, 2021, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, in the East Room of the White House, on Thursday, April 22, 2021 in Washington (Credit Image: © Al Drago/CNP via ZUMA Wire) Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the…