Tear gas rains down on a woman kneeling in the street as she raises her hands in the air. She was part of the protest that erupted in response to the killing of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee was in the middle of writing his first book when the unthinkable happened. At 38, a massive heart attack nearly took his life. That near-death experience ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When Trymaine Lee began writing his first book, he didn’t realize that the gun ...