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6 days ago | 
revealnews.org | Zulema Cobb |Taki Telonidis |Jayme Fraser |Cynthia Rodriguez
Posted inWorkers’ Rights Trump is redefining “discrimination”—rolling back transgender protections and reshaping a civil rights–era agency to benefit white men.
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6 days ago | 
revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Cynthia Rodriguez |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Zulema Cobb
Dylan Bringuel remembers the exact moment they got hired by the Holiday Inn Express in Jamestown, New York. It was late August 2022, and Bringuel—who uses they/them pronouns—had recently moved across the country and was struggling to find work. Bringuel is transgender was upfront about their gender identity during the job interview. “ I was like, ‘Just so you’re aware, I am transitioning from female to male,’” they remember saying. “And they said, ‘Okay, we respect that.
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Steven Rascon |Cynthia Rodriguez |Nikki Frick
The loss of land for Black Americans started with the government’s betrayal of its “40 acres” promise to formerly enslaved people—and it has continued over decades. Today, researchers are unearthing the details of Black land loss long after emancipation.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Steven Rascon |Cynthia Rodriguez |Nikki Frick
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.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Steven Rascon |Cynthia Rodriguez |Nikki Frick
Patricia Bailey’s four-bedroom home sits high among the trees in lush Edisto Island, South Carolina. It’s a peaceful place where her body healed from multiple sclerosis. It’s also the source of her generational wealth. Bailey built this house on land that was passed down by her great-great-grandfather, Jim Hutchinson, who was enslaved on Edisto before he was freed and became a landowner.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Rachel de Leon |Cynthia Rodriguez |Kate Howard |Nikki Frick
Nicole Chase was a young mom with a daughter to support when she took a job at a restaurant in Canton, Connecticut. She liked the work and was good at her job. But the place turned out to be more like a frat house than a quaint roadside sandwich spot. And the crude behavior kept escalating—until one day she says her boss went too far. Chase turned to the local police for help, but what happened next further complicated her life.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Cynthia Rodriguez |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Nikki Frick
In the late 1800s, Wilmington, North Carolina, was a city where African Americans thrived economically and held elected office. This did not sit well with White supremacists, who during the election of 1898 used violence to intimidate voters and overthrow the elected government. It’s considered the only successful coup d’etat in US history.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Cynthia Rodriguez |Steven Rascon |Nikki Frick
The loss of land for Black Americans started with the government’s betrayal of its “40 acres” promise to formerly enslaved people – and it has continued over decades. Today, researchers are unearthing the details of Black land loss long after emancipation.
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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.
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Cynthia Rodriguez |Steven Rascon |Kate Howard
Patricia Bailey’s four-bedroom home sits high among the trees in lush Edisto Island, South Carolina. It’s a peaceful place where her body healed from multiple sclerosis. It’s also the source of her generational wealth. Bailey built this house on land that was passed down by her great-great-grandfather, Jim Hutchinson, who was enslaved on Edisto before he was freed and became a landowner.
