Mother Jones Magazine - May/June 2021

In this issue

In “The 'Machine That Eats Up Black Farmland,’” USDA leaders claim they’ve moved past the department’s legacy of discrimination, but our reporting says otherwise. After a century of dispossession, Tom Philpott writes in “Black Land Matters,” young Black farmers are restoring their rightful place in agriculture, and in “The Truth About Reconciliation,” Peter Keating and Shaun Assael look into the reckoning after the 1979 Greensboro Massacre for lessons on how America might heal itself. Kara Voght reflects on Jon Meacham in “Biden’s Muse” and the influence this Pulitzer-winning biographer had on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. Two feuding tea party leaders are featured in “Stars and Strife” by Stephanie Mencimer, who looks at how these recession-era conservative women helped lay the groundwork for the January 6 insurrection. Julia Lurie and Maddie Oatman report from San Francisco in “Moving the Needle” about a grassroots campaign to protect the Latino community—and the city—from a deadly virus, with photography by Mike Kai Chen.