NPR’s “Tiny Desk” Gets an Actual Tiny Desk, Courtesy Pharoahe Monch
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.We interrupt your pandemic programming with a breaking news bulletin from our Recharge desk at Mother Jones: Down the hall, on your left, past the deranged conspiracy babble of Rep. Marjorie…
They Walked 1,500 Miles for a Life of Freedom. Revisiting a Book That Chronicles Young American Immigrants.
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.Tomorrow marks the third anniversary of a book’s publication that became a major milestone in the chronicling of immigrants’ rights in the United States, and it’s a gripping narrative read with…
Dr. Lonnie Smith Will See You Now: A Crowdfunded Documentary on the Musician’s Sound of Celebration
Ebet Roberts/Redferns via Getty 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.Last month’s uproar over who’s a doctor and who isn’t, and who takes the honorific “Dr.” and who doesn’t—a news cycle cut with sexism by an overtly…
“Coffee Break”: A New Video Call for People With Disabilities Throughout the Pandemic
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.A growing number of headlines focus on Zoom fatigue as the pandemic continues, but video’s vast benefits are also expanding as a tool of greater equality and support for some of…
From Our Archives, a Celebrity Goes, Uh, “Political”
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.Each Friday, we bring you a piece from our archives to help propel you into the weekend. In 1989, Bono graced our cover in a cowboy hat—and without the sunglasses. After…
Remembering Nina Simone’s 1968 Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.
Nina Simone with her daughter, Lisa, in 1968Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty 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.There’s a moment in Nina Simone’s tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., performed three days after he was killed, in 1968,…