For James R. Jones, Congress was a tale of two internships. His first was great, with senior staffers who mentored him and gave him real work to do. His second was “demoralizing.”
“In one office I was nurtured and in the other I was ignored,” he writes in his newly released book, “The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress.”
“The way that I got through it was to develop a community with other Black staffers,” Jones said in an interview this month.
