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2 weeks ago | 
revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Jenny Casas |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb
Adam Aurand spent nearly a decade of his life stuck in a loop. He cycled for years among emergency rooms, psychiatric hospitals, jails, and the streets in and around Seattle. During that time, he was diagnosed with 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.
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1 month ago | 
revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Jenny Casas |Kate Howard |Steven Rascon
When Andrea Dettore-Murphy first moved to Rankin County, Mississippi, she didn’t believe the stories she heard about how brutal the sheriff’s department could be when pursuing suspected drug crimes. But in 2018, she learned the hard way that the rumors were true when a group of sheriff’s deputies raided the home of her friend Rick Loveday and beat him relentlessly while she watched.
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2 months ago | 
revealnews.org | Jenny Casas |Nadia Hamdan |Steven Rascon |Nikki Frick
Mackenson Remy didn’t plan to bypass security when he drove into the parking lot of a factory in Greeley, Colorado. He’d never been there before. All he knew was this place had jobs…lots of jobs. Remy is originally from Haiti, and in 2023, he’d been making TikTok videos about job openings in the area for his few followers, mostly other Haitians. What Remy didn’t know was that he had stumbled onto a meatpacking plant owned by the largest meat producer in the world, JBS.
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2 months ago | 
revealnews.org | Najib Aminy |Jenny Casas |Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon
In 2020, Blossom Old Bull was raising three teenagers on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana. Her youngest son, Braven Glenn, was 17, a good student, dedicated to his basketball team. That November, Old Bull got a call saying Glenn was killed in a police car chase that resulted in a head-on collision with a train. Desperate for details about the accident, she went to the police station, only to find it had shut down without any notice. “The doors were locked.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Ashley Cleek |Jenny Casas |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb
Every four years, the presidential election brings with it a perennial question about an essential voting bloc: Who will Black voters turn out for? Mother Jones video correspondent Garrison Hayes has spent months on the campaign trail talking to Black voters about how they see the goals and limits of their own political power. He paid special attention to Black Republicans and a new crop of Black supporters of former President Donald Trump.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Shoshana Walter |Jenny Casas |Nina Martin |Nikki Frick
Pregnant with her fifth child, Susan Horton had a lot of confidence in her parenting abilities. Then she ate a salad from Costco: an “everything” chopped salad kit with poppy seeds. When she went to the hospital to give birth the next day, she tested positive for opiates. Horton told doctors that it must have been the poppy seeds, but she couldn’t convince them it was true. She was reported to child welfare authorities, and a judge removed Horton’s newborn from her care.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Andrew Becker |Bernice Yeung |Ashley Cleek |Jenny Casas
In 2017, David Leavitt drove to the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana to adopt a baby girl. A few years later, during an interview with a documentary filmmaker, Leavitt, a wealthy Utah politician, told a startling story about how he went about getting physical custody of that child. He describes going to the tribe’s president and offering to use his connections to broker an international sale of the tribe’s buffalo.
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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.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Jenny Casas |Steven Rascon |Kate Howard |Nikki Frick
On a summer night in 1995, a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in a hotel parking lot in Birmingham, Alabama. When investigators arrived at the scene, they found no eyewitnesses and almost no evidence pointing to the shooter. Detectives ultimately zeroed in on a man named Toforest Johnson, who on that same night was with friends at a nightclub miles away.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Jonathan Jones |Jenny Casas |Steven Rascon |Jim Briggs
Bill and Nancy Rasweiler thought they were making a smart decision when they decided to lease their land to Shepherd’s Run, a large-scale solar project that promised a steady income and offered them a way to contribute to renewable energy efforts. But when they presented their plan to the town of Copake, New York, they were met with widespread backlash. “We never expected this kind of resistance,” Nancy Rasweiler recalled.
