White People Are Demanding Their Lives Back In States Where Black People Are Losing Theirs
Protesters denounce Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-home order and business restrictions at State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., on April 30. In Michigan, Black people account for 14 percent of state population and 43 percent of COVID deaths. Paul Sancya/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp…
Amazon VP Quits in Protest, Highlighting Big Tech’s Firings of Minority, Women, and LGBTQ Labor Activists
A worker protests labor conditions outside of an Amazon warehouse on May 1, 2020, in Staten Island. Stephanie Keith/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Monday, Tim Bray, an Amazon vice president, wrote a scathing letter announcing he was leaving the company over its “chickenshit” decision to terminate…
LA Times: New Data Reveals COVID-19 Is Killing Younger Black and Latino Californians at Higher Rates
A staff member for a St. John’s Mobile Clinic provided workers with free COVID-19 testing in Los Angeles this week.Ringo Chiu/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.An analysis published by the Los Angeles Times on Saturday reveals that Black and Latino Californians aged 18 to 64 are…
Coronavirus Is Not Just a Health Crisis—It’s an Environmental Justice Crisis
A family leaves Sunday church services surrounded by chemical plants in Lions, Louisiana.Andrew Lichtenstein/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This piece was originally published in Grist and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. More than 50 years ago, despite a storm that was brewing…
Trump Advisor Compares Conservative Anti-Quarantine Protesters to Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956.Gene Herrick/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Egged on by well-funded political activists, Fox News, and President Donald Trump himself, protesters convened on state capitals in Michigan, Minnesota, and other states this week to demand an end to extreme…
These Twin Sisters Are on the Front Lines Fighting the “Pandemic of Inequality” in New York City
Uché (left) and Oni BlackstockGary Gershoff/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Doctors Uché and Oni Blackstock have spent the majority of their professional lives as rarities. For starters, they’re Black women; only 2 percent of physicians identify as Black and female. They’re also fraternal twins. The story…