One Trial Can’t Change American Policing
SIPAPRE/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.Just 10 miles away from where the state of Minnesota is prosecuting former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, officer Kim Potter, who is white…
Inside the Community Patrols in San Francisco’s Chinatown
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.Last Tuesday evening in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Forrest Liu, 27, spotted a blue sedan with four passengers idling at the curb outside a barbecue restaurant, where a woman in a red…
The Worst People Keep Stealing the Language of Black Struggle
Gabriele Holtermann/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.Recently, one of the three Black Republicans serving in Congress, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) compared white supremacy to “woke” supremacy, using the term as a stand-in for a group…
The Water Crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, Is a Dire Warning Sign
Jackson residents get water from a distribution site on March 7.Michael M. Santiago/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.Jackson, Mississippi, is finally on its way out of a nightmare water crisis. Freezing winter storms wreaked havoc…
How Our Tax Code Is Rigged Against Black Americans
Emory law professor Dorothy BrownAnn Watson 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.Emory University law professor Dorothy Brown saw a lot as a girl growing up in the South Bronx, including a white cop beating a handcuffed…
Massage Parlor Workers Say Policing Isn’t the Answer to the Violence They Face
Elijah Nouvelage/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.The morning after a gunman attacked three massage parlors in the Atlanta area, killing eight people, including six women of Asian descent, JM Wong and a few other members…