
Cynthia Rodriguez
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4 weeks 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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4 weeks 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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