D. Victoria Baranetsky

1 week 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.

2 weeks ago | revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Nikki Frick |D. Victoria Baranetsky |Zulema Cobb

When Dr. Mimi Syed returned from her first volunteer trip to Gaza in the summer of 2024, she started flipping through her notes and came to a shocking conclusion: In one month, the ER physician had treated at least 18 children with gunshots to the head or chest. And that’s only the patients she had time to make a note of. “They were children under the age of 12,” she says.

Jan 11, 2025 | revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Melissa Lewis |Najib Aminy |D. Victoria Baranetsky

President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son and President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to set free people who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, bring back memories of what’s considered the most controversial pardon ever: Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon. Ford’s pardon of the former president in 1974 sparked outrage among politicians and the American people.

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 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.