The Last-Ditch Effort to Stop Florida’s Century-Old Campaign of Racist Disenfranchisement
Desmond Meade, president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, fills out a voter registration form as his wife Sheena looks on.John Raoux/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Supreme Court struck a major blow against voting rights in Florida last week when it let stand a lower…
Trump’s New Census Directive Is Almost Certainly Unconstitutional
Donald Trump, flanked by US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and US Attorney General William Barr, delivers remarks on citizenship and the census in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 11, 2019. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother…
John Lewis’ Legacy Is the Right to Vote. And It’s Under Attack.
John Lewis speaks during the Annual Bloody Sunday March across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 1, 2020.JOSHUA LOTT/AFP via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On March 1, as he was battling stage 4 cancer, John Lewis returned to Selma, Alabama, to…
John Leguizamo on Trump, Dirty Jokes, and the Whitewashing of Latinx History
Mark Helenowski/Mother Jones For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Actor, activist, author, and educator John Leguizamo loves that his comedy makes people feel angry. In his 2018 one-man Broadway show, Latin History for Morons (now available on Netflix), the 55-year-old star splices raunchy jokes with history about the genocide…
Another Monument to White Supremacy That Should Come Down? The Electoral College
George Washington presides over the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 25 – September 17, 1787. Hulton Archive/Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.We are in a moment of reckoning over racism, not only taking down Confederate statues to eradicate these lingering odes to white supremacy…
Kentucky Slashes Number of Polling Places Ahead of Primary—Especially Where Black Voters Live
Senate candidate Charles Booker votes at the Kentucky Expo Center.Pat McDonogh/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Tuesday, Kentucky voters will determine which Democrat will challenge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November. Recent events have tightened the primary into a competitive race: In March, eight police…