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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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3 weeks ago | 
revealnews.org | Michael Montgomery |Brett Myers |Nikki Frick |Steven Rascon
At 18, Jack Morris was convicted of murdering a man in South Los Angeles and sent to prison for life. It was 1979, and America was entering the era of mass incarceration, with tough sentencing laws ballooning the criminal justice system. As California’s prison population surged, so did prison violence. “You learn that in order to survive, you yourself then have to become predatorial,” Morris says.
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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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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.
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1 month ago | 
revealnews.org | Taki Telonidis |Steven Rascon |Zulema Cobb |Nikki Frick
In November 2005, a group of US Marines killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. The case against them became one of the most high-profile war crimes prosecutions in US history—but then it fell apart. Only one Marine went to trial for the killings, and all he received was a slap on the wrist. Even his own defense attorney found the outcome shocking. “It’s meaningless,” said attorney Haytham Faraj. “The government decided not to hold anybody accountable.
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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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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.
