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Trump Has Dismantled More Monuments Than Any Protest
President Donald Trump.Pete Marovich/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in HuffPost and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Amid a national uprising for racial justice and a deadly pandemic that’s disproportionately impacting Black, Latinx and Native communities, President Donald Trump…
White People Own 98 Percent of Rural Land. Young Black Farmers Want to Reclaim Their Share.
Leah Penniman, left, tends the crops at Soul Fire Farm.Courtesy of Soul Fire Farm For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Black people have largely been expelled from the US agricultural landscape. In 1920, nearly a million Black farmers worked on 41.4 million acres of land, making up a…
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…
A Latino Man Died in Police Custody in Tucson—and the Public Didn’t Find Out for Two Months
Family members at a vigil for Carlos Adrian Ingram-Lopez in Tucson, ArizonaCaitlin O’Hara/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Hundreds of people stood in the summer heat of Tucson, Arizona, on Thursday, candles in hand. Fourteen times, they chanted the phrase “Nana, ayúdame”—Grandma, help me—the last words of…
Aunt Jemima Is Not a Black Role Model
Benno Schwinghammer/Zuma For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last Tuesday, at a Students for Trump rally in Phoenix, Arizona, a Turning Point USA ambassador explained the ultimate significance of Aunt Jemima. “She was the picture of the American dream,” Reagan Escudé told the crowd, referring to Quaker Oats’…