Brett Myers

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Senior Radio Editor at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

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They challenged California over solitary confinement and broke a supermax prison

3 weeks 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.
In Gaza, a pregnant woman’s search for a safe delivery

Apr 13, 2024 | revealnews.org | Taki Telonidis |Brett Myers |Najib Aminy |Fernando Arruda

After six months of war in Gaza, the Palestinian medical infrastructure has collapsed, leaving tens of thousands of pregnant women without a safe place to deliver. Reporters Gabrielle Berbey and Salman Ahad Khan follow one mother over the final months of her pregnancy after she’s forced to leave behind her home, work and doctor in Gaza City. We begin with the reporters’ first call to Lubna Al Rayyes five weeks into the war, as she is seven months pregnant with her third child.
The 13th Step - Reveal

Feb 2, 2024 | revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Taki Telonidis |Brett Myers |Nikki Frick

Lauren Chooljian from New Hampshire Public Radio reports on a widespread culture of sexual misconduct in the addiction treatment industry. Across the country, women seeking treatment are being harassed and assaulted by men in positions of power. The problem is so pervasive that it has a name among those in the industry: the 13th Step. We begin with Chooljian explaining to host Al Letson the case that got her started on this investigation.
Ashley Cleek, Author at Reveal

Jan 20, 2024 | revealnews.org | Brett Myers |Nikki Frick |Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda

Host Al Letson goes home to Jacksonville to take stock of changes that have happened in the past few years and what they mean for Black Floridians.