The Last Black Man in San Francisco’s Walking Tour of a Lost City
Jimmie Fails (left) with “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” director Joe Talbot (right)A24 Around the bend of Bernal Heights Park, along the path they used to walk as teenagers, Joe Talbot and Jimmie Fails marveled at the scene before them: a trio of people contorting their bodies on yoga mats on an edge…
Can a Prosecutor Ever Truly Be Progressive? Ferguson May Be the Ultimate Test Case.
Credit: Mother Jones; Jeff Roberson/AP On the night Wesley Bell unseated longtime St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch, Kayla Reed celebrated a progressive electoral victory and a personal promise fulfilled. Reed has been protesting and organizing in the St. Louis area ever since Darren Wilson, a white cop, shot Michael Brown, a black 18-year-old, in…
Harris County’s New Progressive Judges Are Upending the Bail System
tzahiv/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In November, Democrats swept Harris County, Texas, courtrooms, replacing every Republican judge to occupy each of the 59 seats on the ballot. Many of those candidates, including the 19 black women who campaigned together, ran on reform-minded platforms focused on upending the county’s bail system.…
US Women’s National Soccer Team Sues Over Pay Discrimination
Matthew Visinsky/Icon Sportswire/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Members of the US women’s national soccer team Friday sued the US Soccer Federation, alleging that the sport’s governing body engaged in “intentional gender discrimination” by failing to provide wages and resources comparable to the far less successful men’s team. “Despite the…
Oakland Teachers Reach Tentative Deal to End Strike
Educators, students and supporters rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California during a seven-day teachers strike. Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, after a week of protest, the Oakland teachers’ union has announced a tentative agreement with the Oakland Unified School District to end the city’s longest such…
Oakland Teachers Are Still on Strike. What Are Parents Doing With Their Kids?
Magdaline Armstrong (right), a first-grade teacher, and her eight-year-old daughter, Nilaya, eight, picket outside Futures Elementary School.Rosa Furneaux/Mother Jones Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last week, before thousands of Oakland teachers went on strike to call for more pay and smaller class sizes, teachers’ union president Keith Brown asked parents…