California Police Killed Stephon Clark. State Lawmakers Want to Make it Harder for History to Repeat Itself.
Demonstrators protest the police killing of Stephon Clark in Sacramento.Hector Amezcua/Zuma Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two California lawmakers on Tuesday introduced legislation to restrict when police officers in the state can use lethal force, requiring them to use such force only when there is no opportunity to use a…
Listen to a Powerful Reminder of Why Martin Luther King Still Matters
Gabourey Sidibe reads “Pilgrimage to Nonviolence” in The Radical King.Audible Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. April 4th marks 50 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. For nearly as long, there’s been a struggle to claw back King’s legacy from an effort…
This Kafkaesque Nightmare Shows Just How Absurd the Travel Ban Is
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Editor’s Note: On the anniversary of President Donald Trump’s travel ban, Mother Jones asked readers to share their stories about how the ban has affected them. We’re following up with readers and publishing their stories. You can share your own story at the bottom of this…
50 Years After DC Burned, the Injustices That Caused the Riots Are as Urgent as Ever
Warren K. Leffler/Library of Congress Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For a moment, the peace seemed to hold. It was the evening of April 4, 1968, and Martin Luther King Jr. had just been killed by a gunman in Memphis. An angry crowd had gathered at 14th and U streets NW, the nexus…
How the EPA Abandoned This Polluted Town
A man holds a lump of coal ashJay Reeves/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The residents of Uniontown, a poor, majority-black town in rural Alabama, are used to being ignored by the federal government. For years they have fought against the Arrowhead landfill, a site that they say is negatively impacting the…
50 Years After Their Historic Strike, Memphis Sanitation Workers Are Still Fighting
Bishop Julian Smith (left) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy (right) flank Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis on March 28, 1968.Jack Thornell/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. February 1, 1968, was a dreary day in Memphis, Tennessee. As a storm rolled over the city, blanketing…