Al Letson

1 month ago | revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Al Letson |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Brett Myers

This past weekend marked a major escalation in the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts, with the dramatic detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist who played a prominent role in the protests against Israel on Columbia University’s campus last year. Khalil, a Columbia graduate student, is a permanent legal resident in the US.

2 months ago | inkl.com | Dan Slott |Jeph Loeb |Sophie Campbell |Al Letson

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2 months ago | kalw.org | Ethan Elkind |Kelsey Reichmann |Al Letson

On this edition of Your Call's Media Roundtable, we’ll discuss a lawsuit that could drastically change press freedom laws in the United States; that's one of many important cases headed to the US Supreme Court. We also talk to Reveal podcast host Al Letson, about his new podcast “More to the Story” which is about to launch during a moment of massive media layoffs.

Dec 7, 2024 | revealnews.org | Kate Howard |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Nikki Frick |Al Letson

In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting. He said he and his wife were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hospital when a man forced him to drive into the mixed-race Mission Hill neighborhood and shot them both. Stuart’s wife, Carol, was seven months pregnant. She would die that night, hours after her son was delivered by cesarean section, and days later, her son would die, too. Stuart said he saw the man who did it: a Black man in a tracksuit.

Nov 23, 2024 | revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Nikki Frick |Claire Mullen |Al Letson

In the early 1990s, Justin Pourier was a maintenance man at Red Cloud Indian School, a Catholic school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. One day, he says he stumbled upon small graves in the school’s basement. For nearly 30 years, Pourier would be haunted by what he saw and told no one except his wife. “Those are Native children down there…hopefully their spirit was able to travel on to whatever is beyond this world,” Pourier says.