Articles by Brentin Mock
Brentin Mock is a staff writer at CityLab and Grist's former justice editor. Follow him on Twitter at @brentinmock.
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Disney’s “Planes” sequel is an excuse to talk to your kids about climate change
Our hero, the little cropduster that could, has taken up fighting forest fires.
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It’s going to take more than swim lessons to undo the effects of racism
The documentary "Free Swim" suggests that learning to swim can lift black kids up. But poverty, racism, and colonialism are tough nuts to crack.
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Mother jailed for letting her daughter run free — at the playground
Debra Harrell let her 9-year-old daughter play unsupervised in an North Augusta, S.C., park. Harrell was arrested and her daughter is in the custody of the state.
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Houston’s one-bin-to-rule-them-all recycling plan smells a little like racism
The plan would leave the sorting of trash from recycling to workers in nasty plants, mostly in black or Latino communities. Some of that trash would then be burned.
