Atlanta Police Chief Resigns After Cops Kill a Black Man at a Drive-Through
Protesters on Saturday gather on University Avenue near the Atlanta Wendy’s where a cop shot and killed Rayshard Brooks.Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Atlanta’s police chief has resigned less than 24 hours after a cop shot and killed a Black man as…
Look at These Massive Protest Crowds Around the World
People protesting racism and police brutality on Saturday on Paris’ Place de la Republique.Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For the third consecutive weekend, marches and protests against police brutality and anti-Black racism are taking place not just in the United States but…
Breonna Taylor’s Death Prompts Louisville to Ban No-Knock Warrants
A sign in memory of Breonna Taylor in front of the US Consulate General in Krakow, PolandBeata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.About three months after police officers barged into Breonna Taylor’s home in Louisville, Kentucky, in the middle of the night and…
They Built a Utopian Sanctuary in a Minneapolis Hotel. Then They Got Evicted.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Saturday after George Floyd was killed, Abu Bakr Bryant, a 29-year-old from Minneapolis, found himself walking dazedly among the charred remains of Chicago Avenue, the street where Floyd took his last breaths. Shops and restaurants smoldered. Windows had been boarded up.…
All the Monuments to Racism That Have Been Torched, Occupied, or Removed
A man walks past a toppled statue of Confederate Charles Linn in Birmingham, Alabama June 1, 2020.(AP Photo/Jay Reeves) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For all the handwringing over the “senseless” property destruction that has accompanied the past week of protest, a number of the damaged sites…
“Finally We’re Starting to See People Care”: Hundreds Peacefully Defy Curfew in Brooklyn to Demand Justice
Mother Jones/Mark Helenowski For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Police trailed a raucous, peaceful protest of several hundred people in Brooklyn early Wednesday night, permitting demonstrators to take over streets past curfew. While sporadic confrontations broke out at separate protests later, at least for these twilight hours, the…