Sandy Hook Survivors Are Graduating. Here’s What Hasn’t Changed Since the 2012 Massacre.
Some of the victims of the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School will graduate high school on Wednesday night. Phillip Vaughan/Ace Pictures/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When the seniors at Newtown High School in Connecticut graduate on Wednesday, 20 peers…
Ruby Bridges Blasts Book Bans As “Ridiculous” Attempts to “Cover Up History”
Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an elementary school in the South, thinks book bans are “ridiculous.” Rogelio V. Solis/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U.S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given…
My Week Inside Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment
Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment at Columbia University on April 26, 2024.Yuki Iwamura/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the early morning, one can hear the birds perched on trees around the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University. Farther off, there are sounds of protest and…
Mike Johnson’s Visit to Columbia Wasn’t a Hit
Anthony Behar/Sipa USA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) emerged onto the steps of Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library on Wednesday afternoon, he was greeted with a deafening sound: hundreds of booing students. Johnson had just emerged from meetings…
“They Don’t Want to Teach Black History”
David Carson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This story was originally published by Capital & Main. The protests and student walkouts have stopped as an uneasy calm settles over St. Charles County, Missouri, after the community’s all-white school board threatened to eliminate both a…
Video Shows Nonbinary Teen Nex Benedict Reflecting on Fight Before Their Death
A screenshot from newly released body camera footage of a police officer’s interview with Nex Benedict in the hospital.Owasso Police Department/YouTube Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The death of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager in Oklahoma, after a fight in school bathroom earlier this…