US Beauty Products Are Still Full of Dodgy Ingredients
Women at a Philadelphia screening of “A Letter to my Sisters,” a documentary about young women and breast cancer.Caroline Gutman/Inside Climate News This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the arcane and often seemingly impenetrable bureaucracy of the US government, few agencies have as broad of…
We Don’t Have to Guess What MLK Thought About the Israel-Palestine Conflict
This June 1966 photo shows thousands of civil rights demonstrators joining Martin Luther King Jr. on the last leg of the Mississippi March. The following summer, the Six-Day War would scuttle King’s plans to visit Israel.Charles Kelly/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.People of…
Federal Judge Rules Georgia’s Congressional Maps Violate the Voting Rights Act
A young boy holds a sign during a rally advocating for early voting and voting rights on Sunday, October 30, 2022 in Decatur, GA.Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A federal judge on Thursday ruled that voting maps created by Georgia Republicans violated…
EPA Promised to Address Environmental Racism. Then Conservatives Struck Back.
ichigan’s permitting of an asphalt plant just outside Flint was the subject of a civil-rights complaint to the US Environmental Protection Agency.Jenifer Veloso/The Center for Public Integrity This story is published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, a newsroom that investigates inequality. FLINT, Mich – Civil rights law offers a tool for communities…
Stop Messaging Me, a Black Journalist, About White Irish “Slaves”
Mother Jones illustration Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.I create videos about race and history for a living, which results in being inundated with racist comments, dog-whistles, instances of historical revisionism or apologia, and other stupid stuff. Every time I broach the subject of…
The Karens Policing Black Kids’ Hair Aren’t Here to Help
Michael Wyke/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last week, Barbers High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas, after administering more than 40 days of in-school suspension to 18-year-old Darryl George for the length of his dreadlocks, removed him from classes and enrolled him in a disciplinary…