Kate Howard

Louisville

Editorial Director at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

She/her. Editorial director @reveal @motherjones, @IRE_NICAR board member. Past lives: @KentuckyCIR @owhnews @jaxdotcom @Tennessean @TheNewportDaily

Articles

How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Mississippi deputies got away with years of brutality

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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Dec 22, 2024 | motherjones.com | Kate Howard

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He said a Black man killed his wife. Boston was all too willing to believe it.

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.
Connecticut woman reports sexual assault to police, then unexpectedly finds herself the subject of investigation

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.
Keeping Good Trade Mark Records

Sep 30, 2024 | lexology.com | Kate Howard

What you need to know to safeguard your most valuable assetWe know that it is important that a business keep good business records for at least 5 years in Australia, if not longer, to ensure that it can make good decisions for the business and its employees, show its financial position, and meet its obligations relating to taxation and superannuation. We also know that one of the most valuable elements of a business is its trade mark(s).
In Bondage to the Law

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.
40 Acres and a Lie Part 1

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.
The Racist Hoax That Changed Boston

May 11, 2024 | revealnews.org | Kate Howard |Nikki Frick |Jim Briggs |Fernando Arruda

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.
Businesses must look beyond the E of ESG

Mar 4, 2024 | lexology.com | Kate Howard

In an article first written for The Yorkshire Post, associate Kate Howard discussed the importance of focusing on the ‘Social’ and ‘Governance’ aspects of ESG Litigation. When you hear the term ESG (environmental, social and governance), what comes to mind? The environment, greenwashing, sustainability, climate change? Or modern slavery, “diversity, equality and inclusion” (DEI), bribery, money laundering, and other social and governance issues?
Housebuilder invites Dorking residents to have their say on 86 new homes

Jan 31, 2024 | surreyworld.co.uk | Kate Howard

Leading local housebuilder and community creator, Thakeham, is sharing its proposals for 86 new, net zero carbon homes with residents of Dorking over the next two weeks.