“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…
Nazis Put This Symbol on Political Opponents’ Arms. Now Trump is Using It.
Facebook screenshot For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The first result for a Google search of “upside down red triangle” is a Wikipedia page detailing Nazi concentration camp badges. Google’s official “knowledge panel” reiterates this, linking the same Wikipedia page. The results on the rest of the first…
A Sundown Town Sees Its First Black Lives Matter Protest
A person holds up a placard that reads, ‘Black lives matter’ during a different protest in Detroit, Michigan, on May 29, 2020.Seth Herald / Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This story was published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign…
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…
All the Monuments to Racism That Have Been Torched, Occupied, or Removed
A man walks past a toppled statue of Confederate Charles Linn in Birmingham, Alabama June 1, 2020.(AP Photo/Jay Reeves) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For all the handwringing over the “senseless” property destruction that has accompanied the past week of protest, a number of the damaged sites…