10 Years On, Michael Brown’s and Eric Garner’s Mothers Are Still Fighting for Justice

What’s Obama Thinking? • Probing Project 2025 • Turmoil in Tech and Tinseltown [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( 10 Years On, Michael Brown’s and Eric Garner’s Mothers Are Still Fighting for Justice Good morning. When it comes to racial justice in America, the needle of progress moves painfully slowly. That’s the [takeaway]( in Rita Omokha’s poignant meditation on the death of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, both of whose mothers believe the country has yet to rectify the institutional ills that put their sons in harm’s way. “We still have no justice. We still have police brutality happening all over this country,” says Lezley McSpadden-Head, Brown’s mother. “When will accountability actually take place?” Zooming out to election politics, on the [latest episode]( of Inside the Hive, Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast and Jeff Sharlet discuss the radical policies encompassed in Project 2025—and how Donald Trump might use them to turn America into his own autocratic fantasy. Plus, Nick Bilton [captures]( all the agita in Big Tech and Tinseltown over Joe Biden’s refusal to step down from the 2024 presidential race, which “every Democrat outside the Beltway knows he’ll lose,” as one tech founder tells him. Thanks for reading. [Image may contain: Electrical Device, Microphone, Camera, Electronics, Accessories, Glasses, Adult, Person, and Jewelry]( [10 Years On, Michael Brown’s and Eric Garner’s Mothers Are Still Fighting for Justice]( By [Rita Omokha]( [“Nothing has gotten better” since the shattering summer of 2014, says Brown’s mother, Lezley McSpadden-Head, as she and Gwen Carr push for police reform while keeping the memories of their sons alive.]( [Read more button](   [Hollywood and Silicon Valley Are Out of Patience With Bidenworld: “I Genuinely Hope He Loses”]( By [Nick Bilton]( [The president’s staunch refusal to step aside has roiled leaders in two historical bastions of Democratic support. “They are selfish, selfish people,” one tech founder says of Biden’s circle, “who have chosen their job over country.”]( [Read more button](   [How Donald Trump Will Mold America “in the Image of a Dictatorship”]( By [Brian Stelter]( [Reproductive rights crackdowns, mass deportations, and a fealty-based federal bureaucracy. The former president has disavowed Project 2025, but Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast and Jeff Sharlet say his prints are all over it.]( [Read more button](   [Obama Knew George Clooney Was Going to Shiv Joe Biden, Didn’t Try to Stop It: Report]( By [Bess Levin]( [The former president was reportedly given a heads-up on the actor’s explosive op-ed.]( [Read more button](   [Before He Was a VP Contender, J.D. Vance Suggested Trump’s Sexual Assault Accuser Was Telling the Truth]( By [Bess Levin]( [He also liked a tweet saying Trump committed “serial sexual assault.”]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2024 Condé Nast