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Jan 21, 2025 | 
propublica.org | Brandi Kellam |Christopher Tyree |Louis Hansen |Lisa Riordan Seville
Skip to main content Close Close Creative Commons Donate Email Add Email Facebook Instagram Mastodon Facebook Messenger Mobile Podcast Print ProPublica Search Secure WhatsApp YouTube “Uprooted”: What a Black Community Lost When a Virginia University Grew This short documentary reveals a Black community’s decadeslong battle to hold onto its land as officials in Newport News, Virginia, used eminent domain to establish and expand Christopher Newport University. Republish This Story for Free...
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
msn.com | Brandi Kellam |Louis Hansen |Gabriel Sandoval
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
chronicle.com | Brandi Kellam |Louis Hansen
This article was co-published with ProPublica and the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO. More than most public colleges, Christopher Newport University, in Newport News, Va., is the embodiment of one person’s vision. Paul Trible was its president from 1996 to 2022, serving almost three times as long as anyone else. He remains a distinguished professor at the university and its highest-paid employee, making more than half a million dollars a year.
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Dec 9, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Brandi Kellam |Christopher Tyree |Louis Hansen |Lisa Riordan Seville |Mauricio Rodríguez Pons
Opinion & Analysis16 hours agoDonald Trump is not the only threat to democracyThe Washington Post - By Letters to the Editor • 16hDan Balz might be reassured by the failure of the mega rich’s millions to “produce the support of voters” for the likes of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) to run for the White House, but I would not see that as proof that the mega rich can’t confiscate power in the United States, as oligarchs did …Middle EastNowA teacher wrote a Palestinian rallying cry in her email.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
propublica.org | Brandi Kellam |Louis Hansen |Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Bianca Fortis
In the second half of the 20th century, the establishment and expansion of public universities across Virginia uprooted Black families, hindering their efforts to accumulate wealth in the most American way — homeownership. This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
propublica.org | Brandi Kellam |Louis Hansen |Logan Jaffe |Gabriel Sandoval
Uprooted The groundbreaking commission, which was proposed in response to our “Uprooted” series, would consider compensation for dislodged property owners and their descendants. Whether Gov. Glenn Youngkin will sign the bill is unclear.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
propublica.org | Bryant Furlow |Joaquin Sapien |Louis Hansen |Richard Webster
Native American students in New Mexico are expelled far more often than members of any other group. One school district, Gallup-McKinley County Schools, is responsible for most of that disparity. This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with New Mexico In Depth. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
msn.com | Louis Hansen
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. At their annual reunion last month, Deborah Taylor Mapp and her former neighbors shared memories of growing up in the Norfolk, Virginia, neighborhood of Lamberts Point when it was a thriving middle-class Black community. But memories are all Taylor Mapp has.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Louis Hansen
Climate1 day ago‘A silent killer’: How saltwater intrusion is overtaking coastal farmland in the USgrist.org - Peggy Chen, Modern Farmer • 1dAs hurricanes get stronger, storm surges are bringing saltwater to farmland—and leaving salt there once waters evaporate.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
propublica.org | Lizzie Presser |Joaquin Sapien |Richard Webster |Louis Hansen
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In 2019, I wrote a story for ProPublica, co-published with The New Yorker, about the dispossession of Black landowners in the South. The story looked at the legal obstacles that families face when they pass their land down without a will, a form of ownership known as heirs’ property.
