Why Are Successful Black Men Assumed to be Athletes or Entertainers?
Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jordan in May 2011Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.During a trip to Las Vegas, I arranged to interview a wealthy source in his fancy hotel suite. At the resort in question (and probably at all…
Alabama Will Spend Nearly 20 Percent of its Federal COVID Relief Money to Build Human Cages
Kim Chandler/Andrew Harnik/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.After years of searching for a way to finance a massive prison-building scheme, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has found her cash cow: Federal coronavirus aid. Under legislation signed by Ivey at the end of…
How Flint Closed the Gap Between Black and White Suffering Under COVID
Just five minutes away from Debra Furr-Holden’s cluttered home office in Flint is the house she lived in as a teenager, on Pontiac Street, in a zip code that now has among the lowest life expectancies in the city: 73 years. I learned that last bit from Furr-Holden herself. She cited the figure the way…
Today It’s Critical Race Theory. 200 Years Ago It Was Abolitionist Literature.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.There have been many contributions to help make sense of the Republican obsession with critical race theory, a framework developed some 40 years ago to analyze the ways racism is endemic to our laws and policies. Conservatives…
The Olympics’ Dumb Rules Could Keep Black Women Off the Podium
Charlie Riedel/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The governing bodies around the world responsible for determining who competes at the Olympics—and who doesn’t—seem to have it out for Black women. In two weeks, what should have been the 2020 Summer Olympics will kick…
Trump Went on an Execution Spree. Biden Can Make Sure That Doesn’t Happen Again.
Susan Walsh/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.The white supremacist who murdered nine Black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015 is in the news again. Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to death by the federal…