This Research Explains Why Equality in America Is So Elusive
Francescoch/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.In an old Eastern European fable, God appears before an impoverished peasant named Vladimir and offers to grant him one wish—anything he wants. Vladimir is thrilled. But then God adds a caveat: Whatever he grants…
Seven Schools in Oakland Are Closing. Here’s Why Students and Parents Are Mad as Hell.
Students, teachers, and parents walked out of Westlake Middle School and marched to Oakland Unified School District offices to protest its consideration for closure by the district in Oakland, California, on February 1.Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones…
School Boards Have Long Been a Tool of White Supremacy
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.At raucous school board meetings across the country, disgruntled parents have grabbed the mic to represent the political desires of the Republican Party. Once-innocuous local gatherings have become anti–critical race theory caucuses administered by white people. In…
It’s Not the Other America. It’s Just America.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.We’re driving toward Porterville, California, when Matt Black explains his attempt to escape geography. Black is a photographer, and Central Valley towns like this have long been the setting of his work, the people in them his…
How the George Floyd Uprising Was Framed for White Eyes
Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In 1963, Walter Gadsden, 15 years old, was attacked by a police dog during a protest on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama. The moment was captured by Bill Hudson of the…
When Women Were Invited to an 1869 Medical Lecture, the Men Just Lost It
A clinical lecture at the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, circa 1890s.Legacy Center Archives, Drexel University College of Medicine Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as…