4 Black Women Leaders on Climate, Justice, and the Green “Promised Land”
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Black leaders have long been pioneers in protecting communities and the environment—from Harriet Tubman, who in the mid-1800s used her knowledge of the natural world to guide escaped slaves…
The Surprising Benefits of Serving Prisoners Better Food
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Melinda BeckJose Villarreal remembers going to bed hungry most nights during his 10 years in solitary confinement at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison. Dinner might consist of mashed potatoes, bread, and a slice of processed meat—never with salt, and always cold. Shouting through air vents…
Sacramento Police Officers Will Not Be Charged for Killing Stephon Clark
Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie SchubertRich Pedroncelli/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Police officers in Sacramento, California, will not face charges for shooting and killing Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed black man last year, the county district attorney announced today. “Was a crime committed?” District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert…
“Mom, When They Look at Me, They See Dollar Signs”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Becki Sarnicky, who lost her son Nick, at her home in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in January Bryan Anselm/Redux for Mother JonesThe offer was too good to resist: Go to rehab for a week, get $1,000 in cash. It was early 2017, and Brianne, a 20-year-old…
30 Years Ago, a Racist Juror Sentenced This Black Man to Death
ftwitty/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On September 25, 1990, Keith Tharpe disobeyed a judge’s orders requiring him to stay away from his estranged wife and her family after he had threatened them with violence. While his wife and her sister-in-law Jaqueline Freeman were on their way to work, Tharpe blocked their…
R. Kelly Was Just Charged With 10 Counts of Sexual Abuse
R. Kelly in New York in 2013 RTN Jon Palmer/MediaPunch Inc./IPX Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. R&B singer R. Kelly was charged Friday in Chicago with 10 counts of criminal sexual abuse between 1998 and 2010, including of at least three teenagers. The indictments come after decades of sexual misconduct…