Vanessa Taylor

Mic spoke to Abdelhamid earlier this week to learn more about her campaign and plans for if she wins office.

Mic spoke to three organizers about their experiences and why they continue fighting, even when it may seem like all the odds are stacked against them.

Those involved with mainstream media must recognize we are not the only transcribers of the truth.

On March 11, President Biden reflected on the first-year anniversary of the coronavirus shutdown in the United States. In the course of a year, over half a million Americans died due to the virus. For many, that number is too large to comprehend, but the president sought to put it into context: During an address delivered in the White House, Biden remarked, "That's more deaths than in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and 9/11 combined."

In a second Ramadan under the coronavirus pandemic, many Muslims have taken on their own mutual aid projects as an extension of their faith.

Mic is celebrating Earth Day with an entire week of stories. Over the next few days we’ll be rolling out pieces on hyper-urban farming, the future of construction, the catastrophic environmental costs of the dreaded gender reveal, an optimistic imagining of a meat-free world, and much more. All of the stories will be cataloged here, along with the rest of our environmental coverage.

Before Tuesday, I would have started this essay by clumsily referring to the "police killing" of George Floyd. I would have dodged what we all know because legal constraints censor me, too.

Mic is celebrating Earth Day with an entire week of stories. Over the next few days we’ll be rolling out pieces on hyper-urban farming, the future of construction, the catastrophic environmental costs of the dreaded gender reveal, an optimistic imagining of a meat-free world, and much more. All of the stories will be cataloged here, along with the rest of our environmental coverage.

Nearly a year after killing George Floyd, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is on trial, facing charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.

So long as the security apparatus's language defines the way these events are spoken about, any further response to these actions will also be dictated by its logic.

To learn about her plans for NYC, Mic spoke to Tahanie Aboushi this week about her campaign.

"...the devastation wrought on Muslim communities in the U.S. and abroad by Biden's past actions cannot be forgotten in pursuit of a symbolic presidency."

Black people have imagined and dreamed of so much. Our dreams have led to revolts and rebellion, and forced extraordinary futures into being.

To say that 2020 has been a hellscape would be beyond an understatement. And as we're still stuck in its midst, there is no way to fully articulate all of its horrors. How do you adequately sum up a pandemic that isn't over? How do you take the ever-rising death count, the devastation of communities of color left to die by the government (which is no change from the usual but a horror nonetheless), and translate it all into words that are, somehow, enough?

Even if this bill passes, it would mean the federal government has provided less than $2,000 in aid per person for a pandemic that's stretched nine months and counting. Mic spoke with six people about their initial reactions to the $600 stimulus