4 Black Women Leaders on Climate, Justice, and the Green “Promised Land”
Mark Wilson/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Black leaders have long been pioneers in protecting communities and the environment—from Harriet Tubman, who in the mid-1800s used her knowledge of the natural world to guide escaped slaves…
Sacramento Police Officers Will Not Be Charged for Killing Stephon Clark
Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie SchubertRich Pedroncelli/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Police officers in Sacramento, California, will not face charges for shooting and killing Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed black man last year, the county district attorney announced today. “Was a crime committed?” District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert…
The Release of “When I Come Home” Was a Huge Surprise. Solange’s Talent Isn’t.
Daniel DeSlover/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: When I Get Home by Solange (Columbia Records, 2019) Why we’re into it: Look, it’s Solange. We had to. We’re sure you’ve already seen it plastered all over the music sites, and on your friends’ Instagram stories, and trending on…
30 Years Ago, a Racist Juror Sentenced This Black Man to Death
ftwitty/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On September 25, 1990, Keith Tharpe disobeyed a judge’s orders requiring him to stay away from his estranged wife and her family after he had threatened them with violence. While his wife and her sister-in-law Jaqueline Freeman were on their way to work, Tharpe blocked their…
For Pixar’s Domee Shi, “Write What You Know” Yielded a Strange, Magical Chinese Dumpling
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. If you haven’t seen Bao, one of this year’s Oscar contenders for best animated short film, you’re in for a treat. Or not. In the film, the bao—which is a Chinese word for bun or dumpling—comes to life and grows up right before its mother’s…
This Is the Green New Deal’s Biggest Problem
Sprawl is made possible by highways. This is expensive—in 2015, the Victoria Transport Policy Institute estimated that sprawl costs America more than $1 trillion a year in reduced business activity, environmental damage, consumer expenses, and other costs. Leaving aside the emissions from the 1.1 billion trips Americans take per day (87 percent of which are taken in…