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Space, "Star Trek," and social justice
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (273+ words) Today, Prescod-Weinstein's work stands out for the ways she weaves her identity as queer, Black, and Jewish into her work. In her latest book, The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie, Prescod-Weinstein brings a Black feminist…...
Has America lived up to its founding promise that all men are created equal?
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (296+ words) Elizabeth Freeman was an enslaved person living in Massachusetts when the Declaration of Independence was signed 250 years ago. The document's famous words "all men are created equal" did not apply to her, but she thought they should." "She is somebody…...
Bryan Stevenson on confronting America's legacy of slavery
2+ week, 1+ day ago (397+ words) When Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1980s, the city'one of America's most prominent slave trading spaces before the Civil War'had dozens of Confederate monuments and memorials, but nothing commemorating slavery. Today, thanks to Stevenson's efforts, the city looks…...
Heather Cox Richardson on the real genius of America
3+ week, 1+ day ago (391+ words) Heather Cox Richardson is one of today's unlikeliest social media stars. The Boston College historian has been teaching and writing about 19th-century America, Reconstruction, and the Civil War for decades. But it was only in 2019 that her work took off…...
The revolutionary roots that inspired Tupac Shakur
4+ week, 1+ day ago (430+ words) It's impossible to overstate rapper Tupac Shakur's influence on music and culture in the 1990s. One of the era's bestselling musical artists, Tupac helped define West Coast hip-hop through vulnerable, introspective lyrics and Black power politics. His death in 1996 at just…...
Data centers are spreading across the country. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (329+ words) Virginia might be for lovers, but more recently, it's for data centers. The state has more data centers than anywhere in the world, and companies are pushing to build more of them, including around some of the most hallowed ground…...
How redistricting is upending America's midterms
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (250+ words) Mother Jones national correspondent Tim Murphy describes the redistricting happening in Southern states as "a historic reversal of what the Voting Rights Act brought" and could lead to "homogenous white delegations to the South." On this week's More To The…...
De'j" vote: "Stop the Steal" never stopped
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (400+ words) When the FBI showed up at a warehouse in Fulton County, Georgia, to seize hundreds of boxes of 2020 election records this past January, County Commissioner Dana Barrett thought it looked less like a criminal investigation and more like political theater....
The secrets behind "The Talented Mr. Epstein
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (376+ words) In previous interviews, Carter has claimed that Ward's reporting didn't meet Vanity Fair's editorial standards and that the allegations came too late in the editing process. But Ward says the magazine left out the Farmer sisters' account after Epstein personally…...
Activists tried to deliver aid to Gaza. They were met with drone attacks and imprisonment.
2+ mon, 10+ hour ago (349+ words) Last fall, hundreds of activists from all over the world crowded onto several dozen boats and set sail for Gaza. Their goal: Break through Israel's blockade of the territory and end one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet....