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1 month ago | revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Taki Telonidis |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb

Decades before Covid-19, the AIDS epidemic tore through communities in the US and around the world. It has killed and continues to take lives today. But early on, research and public policy focused on AIDS as a gay men’s disease, overlooking other vulnerable groups—including communities of color and women. “We literally had to convince the federal government that there were women getting HIV,” says activist Maxine Wolfe.

1 month ago | revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Jonathan Jones |Michael I Schiller |Michael Montgomery

The first pilot episode of Reveal exposed how the Department of Veterans Affairs was overprescribing opioids to veterans and contributing to an overdose crisis. Journalist Aaron Glantz explained how he received—surprisingly quickly—a decade’s worth of opioid prescription data from the federal government. “Sometimes, you have to sue to get the records,” he said.

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.

Nov 30, 2024 | revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Nikki Frick |Claire Mullen |Zulema Cobb

Chief Red Cloud was a Lakota leader in the late 1800s, when the conflict between the US government and Native Americans was intense, and he was the tribal chief when the Catholic church built a boarding school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Generations of children were traumatized by their experience at the school, whose mission was to strip them of their language and culture.

Nov 23, 2024 | revealnews.org | Michael I Schiller |Nikki Frick |Claire Mullen |Al Letson

In the early 1990s, Justin Pourier was a maintenance man at Red Cloud Indian School, a Catholic school on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. One day, he says he stumbled upon small graves in the school’s basement. For nearly 30 years, Pourier would be haunted by what he saw and told no one except his wife. “Those are Native children down there…hopefully their spirit was able to travel on to whatever is beyond this world,” Pourier says.