Defunding the Police Doesn’t Poll Well. That Doesn’t Matter.
Anthony Behar/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Black feminists have led the movement on defunding and eventually abolishing the police, and gradually the idea has gained momentum across the country. Since the killing of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department on Memorial Day,…
“You’re Not Coming to Bring Us Justice. So What Are You Coming For?”
Protesters chant in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, May 30, 2020, during a rally to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. Ian Maule/Tulsa World/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As a child, Greg Robinson…
What Happens When a Massive Racial Justice March on Washington Goes Digital?
Revs. William Barber, left, Jesse Jackson, and Romiah Shart, attend a rally on the east front lawn of the Capitol with members of the Poor People’s Campaign in May, 2018.Tom Williams/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In 1968, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had organized a massive…
Trump Reschedules Race-Baiting Juneteenth Rally Because Black “Friends” Told Him To
Trump supporters at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on December 10,2019.Bastiaan Slabbers/NurPhoto via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.After days of public backlash, President Trump gave in to pressure and canceled a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, scheduled for Friday, Juneteenth. In a tweet late…
The Pulse of Jazz Grounded in Freedom Movements
John Coltrane at the Half Note in New York, 1965Adam Ritchie/Redferns via Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.When it’s said that you can hear the history of freedom movements in John Coltrane’s 1963 “Alabama,” it’s more than metaphor: Coltrane patterned his horn lines after Martin Luther…
Breonna Taylor’s Death Prompts Louisville to Ban No-Knock Warrants
A sign in memory of Breonna Taylor in front of the US Consulate General in Krakow, PolandBeata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.About three months after police officers barged into Breonna Taylor’s home in Louisville, Kentucky, in the middle of the night and…