After a Century of Dispossession, Black Farmers Are Fighting to Get Back to the Land
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 the decades before the Civil War, one of the South’s largest slave enterprises held sway on the northern outskirts of Durham, North Carolina. At its peak, about 900 enslaved people…
Young Black Residents Are Bearing the Brunt of Michigan’s Recent COVID-19 Surge
Certified medical assistant Vernest Lacy administers a second dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Theodore Heggler, of Benton Harbor, Michigan. Don Campbell/The Herald-Palladium/AP 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.Michigan is in the midst of a…
“One Guilty Verdict Doesn’t Satisfy That Appetite for Actual Change”: Why Derek Chauvin’s Trial Is Not the End of the Fight
Protesters demonstrate outside the Hennepin County Government Center on March 9, 2021 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ImageSpace/Zuma 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.Late Tuesday afternoon, the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin delivered its verdict: guilty on…
Derek Chauvin Was Just Found Guilty on All Three Counts for Murdering George Floyd
Rodney Floyd leads family members including Philonise and Keeta Floyd to the Hennepin County Government Center.Mark Vancleave/TNS/Zuma 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.After just 10 hours of deliberation, the jury in the Derek Chauvin trial found…
The Oscar-Nominated Writers of Judas and the Black Messiah “Just Wanted to Make a Good Film for Fred”
Keith and Kenny Lucas, co-screenwriters of “Judas and the Black Messiah.”Desiree Navarro/WireImage/Getty 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 Judas and the Black Messiah, the life of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, a revolutionary socialist who was committed…
Far-Right Extremism Has Become One of the Intelligence Community’s Rising Threats
Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner/Bloomberg/Getty 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.When the US intelligence community last released its public assessment of global threats at the beginning of 2019, white supremacism was barely mentioned. The 42-page report devoted one…