How People of Color Can Be Pawns for White Power
Mother Jones; LM Otero/AP; Wikimedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Being white is extremely alluring to a certain kind of not white person. I realized this when a relative once proudly told me that Persian people, of which half of my family is, were technically…
Nashville Officials Unanimously Vote to Reinstate Justin Jones
George Walker/ AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a unanimous vote Monday, the Nashville Metropolitan Council voted to reinstate Rep. Justin Jones, one of the two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled last week after protesting for gun control from the chamber floor. Their demonstration…
Kamala Harris Leads a Furious Chorus Over Ouster of Black Tennessee Lawmakers
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn to support two Democratic lawmakers who were expelled from the Tennessee State Legislature.George Walker IV/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Public outrage was immediate and intense on Thursday following the Tennessee legislature’s Republican…
Tennessee House Republicans Move to Expel Three Members for Gun Control Protest
Seth Herald/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A little over a week after a devastating shooting at a Nashville grade school, the Tennessee House of Representatives, in a historically rare move, took the first steps to expel three Democratic members for participating in…
OpenSea’s NFT Platform Is Rife with Racist Content
Mother Jones illustration; Sheldon Cooper/SOPA/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When the NFT trading platform OpenSea agreed to meet with representatives from Color of Change, staffers at the civil rights advocacy group assumed that meant that the largest and most prominent business in the…
My Video Responding to Racist Comments Went Viral. Let’s Talk About It.
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The generations-old debate over reparations for the descendants of enslaved Black people has fascinated me for my whole adult life. I’ve been to town halls, film screenings, and public hearings on the topic. Recently, my fascination…