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1 week ago | 
revealnews.org | Isabela Dias |Noah Lanard |Najib Aminy |Nadia Hamdan
On March 15, federal agents rounded up more than 230 Venezuelan nationals who were then deported to El Salvador and locked up in the country’s notorious megaprison. The Trump administration said the men belonged to a violent Venezuelan gang, but presented no evidence, and there were no court hearings in which the men could contest the allegations. Nearly a month later, families of the Venezuelan men say they have heard nothing about their fate. It’s as if they disappeared.
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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.
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2 months ago | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Steven Rascon |Cynthia Rodriguez |Nikki Frick
The loss of land for Black Americans started with the government’s betrayal of its “40 acres” promise to formerly enslaved people—and it has continued over decades. Today, researchers are unearthing the details of Black land loss long after emancipation.
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2 months ago | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Steven Rascon |Cynthia Rodriguez |Nikki Frick
Skidaway Island, Georgia, is home today to a luxurious community that the mostly White residents consider paradise: waterfront views, live oaks and marsh grass alongside golf courses, swimming pools, and other amenities. In 1865, the island was a thriving Black community, started by freedmen who were given land by the government under the 40 acres program. They farmed, created a system of government, and turned former cotton plantations into a Black American success story. But it wouldn’t last.
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2 months ago | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Steven Rascon |Cynthia Rodriguez |Nikki Frick
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.
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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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Nov 16, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Najib Aminy |Ashley Cleek |Nadia Hamdan
As Donald Trump prepares to enter the White House for a second term, the reasons people voted him into office are becoming more clear. For Micki Witthoeft, it’s cause for celebration. Her daughter, Ashli Babitt, was shot and killed by a police officer after storming the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Today, Witthoeft is confident Trump will stand by his word and pardon everyone involved. “He said his administration’s going to be one on ‘promises made and promises kept,’ ” she said.
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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.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
revealnews.org | Nadia Hamdan |Michael I Schiller |Michael Montgomery |Nina Martin
In 2020, as elections officials counted votes in Phoenix, protesters swarmed outside the Maricopa County election center. Many held flags; some had AR-15s. Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was there yelling into a bullhorn, “Burn in hell, Joe Biden.” They claimed the election was stolen. Since then, dozens of court cases across the country have all found no evidence of widespread fraud.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
richmondfreepress.com | Alexia Campbell |Nadia Hamdan
The Hercules Wilson Jr. family in Concord, North Carolina, in the early 1940s. From left: Carrie Dockery Wilson (wife), James Edward Wilson (son; Ruth’s father), Hercules Wilson Jr. (Ruth’s grandfather), Pinckney Dockery Wilson (son), Helen Eizabeth Wilson (daughter).Courtesy Ruth Wilson Ruth Wilson squinted through her browline glasses at the image of a smudged, crumpled document on the computer screen. “To all whom it may concern,” she read.
