Brett Myers

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Senior Radio Editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

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She Denied Mel Gibson a Gun—Then Trump’s DOJ Fired Her - Reveal

2 weeks ago | revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Al Letson |Brett Myers

When Liz Oyer was appointed US pardon attorney in 2022 by President Joe Biden, she’d landed her dream job. As a longtime public defender, Oyer was now in a position to advise the president on the backlog of thousands of individuals seeking presidential clemency. But earlier this year, her dream job ended abruptly.
Third graders in Steubenville, Ohio, are some of the best little readers in the nation. What’s their secret?

1 month ago | revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Brett Myers |Taki Telonidis |Nikki Frick

The schools in Steubenville, Ohio, are doing something unusual—in fact, it’s almost unheard of. In a country where nearly 40 percent of fourth graders struggle to read at even a basic level, Steubenville has succeeded in teaching virtually all of its students to read well.
How Trump Exploits Working-Class Pain

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

Arlie Hochschild, an award-winning author and sociologist, has spent years talking with people living in rural parts of the country who have been hit hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs and shuttered coal mines. They’re the very people President Donald Trump argues will benefit most from his sweeping wave of tariffs and recent executive orders aimed at reviving coal mining in the US. But Hochschild argues that Trump’s policies will only fill an emotional need for those in rural America.
They challenged California over solitary confinement and broke a supermax prison

2 months ago | revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Brett Myers |Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon

At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and America was entering the era of mass incarceration, with tough sentencing laws ballooning the criminal justice system. As California’s prison population surged, so did prison violence. “You learn that in order to survive, you yourself then have to become predatorial,” Morris says.
Why You Shouldn’t Buy the Election Narrative About Black Men

Oct 24, 2024 | revealnews.org | Josh Sanburn |Kara McGuirk-Allison |Nikki Frick |Brett Myers

Earlier this month, former President Barack Obama stopped by a Kamala Harris campaign office in Pennsylvania and made headlines by admonishing Black men for being less enthusiastic about supporting her for president compared with the support he received when he ran in 2008. “Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” Obama said.
In God We Vote - Reveal

Oct 12, 2024 | revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Nikki Frick |Anayansi Diaz-Cortes |Al Letson |Taki Telonidis |Brett Myers | +5 more

A small-town pastor blurs the line between church and state. It’s all part of a growing ideology that believes Christians should control society.
What it’s like to be Black in Florida now

Sep 21, 2024 | revealnews.org | Al Letson |Ashley Cleek |Brett Myers |Nikki Frick

In the summer of 2023, Reveal host Al Letson felt compelled to return home to Jacksonville, Florida. His best friend had recently passed away following a long battle with cancer, and he wanted to be close to the place where they became men together. But when he arrived, he found a city and state he barely recognized. In recent years, the Republican-dominated legislature has passed a slate of laws targeting minority groups.
The Churn - Reveal

Jul 27, 2024 | revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Jenny Casas |Brett Myers |Nikki Frick

Adam Aurand spent nearly a decade of his life stuck in a loop. He cycled for years among emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, jails, prison, and the streets in and around Seattle. During that time, he picked up diagnoses of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and schizoaffective disorder. He also used opioids and methamphetamine. Each time he entered an institution for care or incarceration, he was released back into homelessness. And the cycle started again.
How the Mormon church keeps child sexual abuses cases secret

Jul 20, 2024 | revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Brett Myers |Nikki Frick |Jim Briggs

Chelsea Goodrich and her mother, Lorraine, were locked in discussions with the director of the Mormon church’s risk management division, Paul Rytting. One of Rytting’s jobs is to protect the church from legal liability, including sexual abuse lawsuits. The women had come to the meeting with one clear request: Would the church allow a local Idaho bishop who heard Chelsea’s father’s confession of abuse to testify against him at trial?
How a Black utopia for formerly enslaved people became a wealthy White enclave

Jun 22, 2024 | revealnews.org | Cynthia Rodriguez |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb |Brett Myers

Skidaway Island, Georgia, is home today to a luxurious community that the mostly White residents consider paradise: waterfront views, live oaks and marsh grass alongside golf courses, swimming pools and other amenities. In 1865, the island was a thriving Black community, started by freedmen who were given land by the government under the 40 acres program. They farmed, created a system of government and turned former cotton plantations into a Black American success story. But it wouldn’t last.