As a Teen, Emily Joy Was Abused by a Church Youth Leader. Now She’s Leading a Movement to Change Evangelical America.
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The #MeToo stories that were flooding Emily Joy’s social feeds for weeks had been nagging at her. Last November, as her own story played on a loop in her mind, she finally texted a group of close friends: “Do I out my high school abuser? Probably, huh?” Joy’s story is familiar…
Jared Kushner’s Prison Reform Plan Just Passed the House With Van Jones’ Support
Jared KushnerOlivier Douliery/ Abaca Press(Sipa via AP Images) Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Donald Trump just scored a victory on criminal justice reform, and some Democrats are actually pleased. In a 360-59 vote, the House of Representatives approved a prison bill on Tuesday that the president and his son-in-law, Jared…
How Trial by Skype Became the Norm in Immigration Court
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rob DobiTess Feldman stood in an empty San Francisco courtroom, facing a three-foot-wide television screen. “Good morning!” she shouted toward a camera connected to the TV. “Can you hear me?” A stunned-looking man in an orange prison jumpsuit appeared on screen. An inmate at the Mesa…
Homeless Man Jailed After Being Falsely Accused of Using Counterfeit Cash Is Suing Burger King
Emory EllisSteven Senne/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A homeless man is suing fast-food giant Burger King for $950,000 in damages after staff at one of the company’s Boston locations had him arrested for trying to pay for his food with an allegedly counterfeit bill. The man, Emory Ellis, was then jailed…
It’s Time We Had a Talk About White People Calling the Cops on Black People
Stock photoAlbert Van Rosendaa/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. You may have heard about that unsettling incident last week—the one in which a white Yale graduate student called campus police on a black classmate who’d fallen asleep on the sofa in the common room of their student apartment building.…
Black Oaklanders Rally Around Racially Charged BBQ Incident That Became a Viral Video
A screenshot of the viral video of the now infamous April 29 incident in which a white woman called the police on two black men barbecuing on a lake in Oakland, California.Michelle Dione/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Dozens of black Oaklanders showed up at a city council meeting last…