How Steve Reich Made Music Out of White Complicity
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In the spring of 1964, the New York Times reported that six young Black men were indicted for the murder of a shopkeeper. The article is short on context, clipped, half-said. Two years later, James Baldwin, in his essay “A Report From Occupied Territory,”…
The St. Louis Gun Couple Can Stand Their Ground on a Racist Legal Doctrine
A day after cameras caught him and his wife waving guns at peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters walking near their gaudy $1.15 million mansion, Mark McCloskey went on local news and dropped the analogy of the year. “I really thought it was storming the Bastille,” said McCloskey, who like his wife Patricia is a lawyer.…
Racist N.C. Cops Caught on Video Calling for a “Civil War” to “Wipe ‘Em off the Fucking Map”
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On June 4, a little over a week after the death of George Floyd, a Wilmington, North Carolina, police sergeant conducting routine checks of dash-cam footage found video of two cops discussing, among other things, the arrival of “martial law.” “We are…
Trump’s Speech: 0 Mentions of George Floyd. 5 Minutes on Nearly Falling Down a Ramp.
Evan Vucci/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.At his first public rally in 110 days in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a day after Juneteenth, President Trump did not mention George Floyd. He did not mention Breonna Taylor. He did not mention Ahmaud Arbery. He did not mention Rayshard Brooks.…
A Sundown Town Sees Its First Black Lives Matter Protest
A person holds up a placard that reads, ‘Black lives matter’ during a different protest in Detroit, Michigan, on May 29, 2020.Seth Herald / Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This story was published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign…
There’s Already an Alternative to Calling the Police
Carl Payne/High Country News For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in High Country News and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. As citizens across the country fill the streets to protest police killings of Black people, the violent response from law enforcement…