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A government program gave formerly enslaved people land after the Civil War, only to take nearly all of it back a year and a half later. We used artificial intelligence to track down the people, places, and stories that had long been misunderstood and forgotten, then asked their descendants about what’s owed now.
40 Acres and a Lie
40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all the land had been taken back. Read more here and listen to a three-part audio investigation here. Pompey...
Paradise Stolen
40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all the land had been taken back. Read more here and listen to a three-part audio investigation here. Karen...
What We Are Owed
40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all the land had been taken back. Read more here and listen to a three-part audio investigation here. Alvin...
How We Uncovered the True Story of 40 Acres and a Mule
40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War. A year and a half later, almost all the land had been taken back. Read more here and listen to a three-part audio investigation here. One...
The Laws That Make It Shockingly Easy for Survivors to Be Jailed for Their Abusers’ Crimes
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, and Facebook. Pat Johnson counted the locks on the apartment door. One. Two. Three. There were too many...
Rudy Giuliani Is Turning to the Christian Right for Help With His Bills
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Rudy Giuliani has been having a rough go of things. Since trying to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 election results, “America’s Mayor” has been indicted in Arizona and Georgia, New York suspended his license to practice law, and he’s facing disbarment in Washington, DC. In December, a jury hit him with a $148 million verdict in a defamation suit filed by two Georgia election workers who Giuliani had falsely accused of fraud. His former lawyer has been suing him for more than $1 million in unpaid legal fees. Even his ex-wife has said he owes her money. As a result, shortly after the verdict in Georgia, the former New York City mayor filed for bankruptcy.
Extreme Temperatures Seem To Be Messing With Children’s Mental Health
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Researchers are now connecting the dots between the climate crisis and the havoc heat can wreak on developing minds. Extreme heat and other climate calamities “impact our first and worst,...
North Carolina’s GOP Opposes Embryo Destruction. That Could Threaten IVF.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In February, the conservative Alabama Supreme Court delivered an unprecedented opinion, ruling that failing to protect an embryo from destruction is the legal equivalent of failing to prevent a human child from dying.
Sandy Hook Survivors Are Graduating. Here’s What Hasn’t Changed Since the 2012 Massacre.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When the seniors at Newtown High School in Connecticut graduate on Wednesday, 20 peers will be missing: the kids who were brutally murdered in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
She Was a Top Supporter of a Right-Wing Mogul. Now She’s a Star Witness Against Him.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Ya Li is a slight, soft-spoken accountant who was born in China and now lives with her husband and daughter in Australia. But from 2017 until last year, Li was also known as Mulan, a top member of an international “whistleblower movement” with the stated goal of supplanting China’s Communist Party as the country’s legitimate government.
New Senate Report Blasts Residential Treatment Facilities That “Treat Children as Payouts”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Senate Finance Committee released on Wednesday the findings of a two-year investigation that revealed widespread abuse and neglect at residential treatment facilities attended by thousands of children each year. The report, which looked at four of the nation’s largest behavioral health providers—Universal Health Services (UHS), Acadia Healthcare, Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health, and Vivant Behavioral Healthcare—detailed a system that “optimizes profit over the wellbeing and safety of children” and incentivizes facilities to “treat children as payouts.”
“The Whole Building Becomes This Big Brick Oven”
This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last month, Oscar Hernández couldn’t sleep. The cook, who worked at a restaurant located inside of a Las Vegas casino, had found that after coming home from his shifts, his body would not properly cool down.
North Carolina House Passes Revised Mask Ban
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, the North Carolina GOP Representatives passed a mask ban on private property in a crackdown on protesters, even as a new subvariant of coronavirus spreads across the United States. The vote was 69 for the measure and 43 against It now goes to the governor’s desk.
Right-Wing Campaign Urges Supreme Court to Protect Fossil Fuel Interests
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Far-right fossil fuel allies have launched a stunning and unprecedented campaign pressuring the Supreme Court to shield fossil fuel companies from litigation that could cost them billions of dollars. Some of...
Hunter Biden Convicted on Federal Gun Charges
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, a federal jury in Delaware convicted Hunter Biden of three felonies related to federal gun crimes. In 2018, while in recovery, the now-president’s son wrote on paperwork for a gun purchase that he did not abuse illegal drugs. President Joe Biden said last week that he would not pardon his son if he was convicted.
Insulin Prices Are Deadly High—But Mutual Aid Is Keeping Diabetics Alive
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Since May 2021, Rebecca Dotson has navigated type II diabetes with the help of mutual aid. Without the right resources—monitoring devices, insulin, and other medications—unmanaged diabetes can, at worst, kill people; it can also lead to expensive hospital stays and complications including amputations. Insulin is seven to 10 times more expensive in the United States than abroad, on average, which can be disastrous for uninsured and underinsured people.
Exposure to Wildfire Smoke Killed 50,000 Californians Over a Decade, Study Finds
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. More than 50,000 people have died prematurely in California over a decade due to exposure to toxic particles in wildfire smoke, according to a new study. Wildfires create smoke containing PM2.5,...
West Bank Midwives Are Facing a Maternal Health Crisis
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The car in front flashes its hazard lights, a signal to alert drivers that there is an Israeli military checkpoint ahead. Niveen Draghmeh sits up a little straighter, her medical ID clasped in...
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