Investigative Reporting on Racial Justice

El COVID-19 golpea Texas y los hispanos son quienes más mueren

por Perla Trevizo, ProPublica y The Texas Tribune y Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News,

July 31, 2020, 11 a.m. CDT

Prosecutors Say They Support Releasing Girl Who Was Detained for Not Doing Her Schoolwork

by Jodi S. Cohen,

July 30, 2020, 2:58 p.m. EDT

“It Cost Me Everything”: In Texas, COVID-19 Takes a Devastating Toll on Hispanic Residents

by Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, and Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News,

July 30, 2020, 5 a.m. CDT

What People Who Live in Mostly White Towns Need to Know About History

by Logan Jaffe,

July 24, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT

Judge Won’t Free Michigan Teenager Sent to Juvenile Detention After Not Doing Online Schoolwork

by Jodi S. Cohen,

July 20, 2020, 8:26 p.m. EDT

Trump Financial Regulator Quietly Shelved Discrimination Probes Into Bank of America and Other Lenders

by Patrick Rucker, The Capitol Forum,

July 13, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT

How a Key Federal Civil Rights Agency Was Sidelined as Historic Protests Erupted

by A.C. Thompson and Robert Faturechi,

July 9, 2020, 11:15 a.m. EDT

A Hospital Was Accused of Racially Profiling Native American Women. Staff Said Administrators Impeded an Investigation.

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

June 22, 2020, 7:15 p.m. EDT

Slavery Existed in Illinois, but Schools Don’t Always Teach That History

by Logan Jaffe,

June 19, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT

State Investigating Hospital With Coronavirus Policy That Profiled Pregnant Native American Mothers and Separated Them From Newborns

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

June 14, 2020, 11:48 a.m. EDT

A Hospital’s Secret Coronavirus Policy Separated Native American Mothers From Their Newborns

by Bryant Furlow, New Mexico In Depth,

June 13, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT

A Sundown Town Sees Its First Black Lives Matter Protest

by Logan Jaffe,

June 12, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT

The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them.

by Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism,

June 9, 2020, 6 a.m. EDT

On the Minds of Black Lives Matter Protesters: A Racist Health System

by Akilah Johnson,

June 5, 2020, 2:49 p.m. EDT

Police Brutality, COVID-19 and Overdoses in Chicago Follow the Same Deadly Pattern

by Duaa Eldeib and Melissa Sanchez,

June 5, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT

What Experts Say About Narrowing COVID-19 Racial Disparities

by ProPublica,

May 19, 2020, 11:51 a.m. EDT

The Black American Amputation Epidemic

by Lizzie Presser,

May 19, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT

COVID-19 Took Black Lives First. It Didn’t Have To.

by Duaa Eldeib, Adriana Gallardo, Akilah Johnson, Annie Waldman, Nina Martin, Talia Buford and Tony Briscoe,

May 9, 2020, 8 a.m. EDT

Early Data Shows Black People Are Being Disproportionally Arrested for Social Distancing Violations

by Joshua Kaplan and Benjamin Hardy,

May 8, 2020, 6:22 p.m. EDT

“Similar to Times of War”: The Staggering Toll of COVID-19 on Filipino Health Care Workers

by Nina Martin and Bernice Yeung,

May 3, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT

These Workers Packed Lip Gloss and Pandora Charm Bracelets. They Were Labeled “Essential” but Didn’t Feel Safe.

by Wendi C. Thomas, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism,

May 2, 2020, 9 a.m. EDT

Los New Yorkers: Essential and Underprotected in the Pandemic’s Epicenter

by Adriana Gallardo, ProPublica, and Ariel Goodman for ProPublica,

May 2, 2020, 5 a.m. EDT

In Chicago, Urban Density May Not Be to Blame for the Spread of the Coronavirus

by Haru Coryne, ProPublica Illinois,

April 30, 2020, 3 p.m. EDT

Early Data Shows African Americans Have Contracted and Died of Coronavirus at an Alarming Rate

by Akilah Johnson and Talia Buford,

April 3, 2020, 1:21 p.m. EDT

It’s Time for Sundown Towns to Become a More Visible Part of Illinois History. But How?

by Logan Jaffe,

Feb. 21, 2020, 4 a.m. CST

After Our Reporting, Connecticut Officials Are Taking On Housing Segregation

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas and Jenna Carlesso, The Connecticut Mirror,

Jan. 24, 2020, 5 a.m. EST

Tens of Thousands of People Lost Driver’s Licenses Over Unpaid Parking Tickets. Now, They’re Getting Them Back.

by Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ Chicago,

Jan. 17, 2020, 3:26 p.m. CST

How Wealthy Towns Keep People With Housing Vouchers Out

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror,

Jan. 9, 2020, 5 a.m. EST

What We Found in Three Years of Documenting Hate: A Letter to Our Partners

by Rachel Glickhouse,

Jan. 2, 2020, 5 a.m. EST

Health Officials in “Cancer Alley” Will Study if Living Near a Controversial Chemical Plant Causes Cancer

by Gordon Russell, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

Nov. 25, 2019, 3:32 p.m. EST

Separated by Design: Why Affordable Housing Is Built in Areas With High Crime, Few Jobs and Struggling Schools

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror,

Nov. 25, 2019, 5 a.m. EST

What Could Happen if a $9.4 Billion Chemical Plant Comes to “Cancer Alley”

by Lylla Younes,

Nov. 18, 2019, 12 p.m. EST

What Readers Told Us About Our Story, “The Legend of A-N-N-A”

by Logan Jaffe,

Nov. 15, 2019, 4 a.m. CST

New EPA Rules Aim to Reduce Toxic Emissions. But Many “Cancer Alley” Chemical Plants Won’t Have to Change.

by Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

Nov. 14, 2019, 4:30 p.m. EST

They Are Racist; Some of Them Have Guns. Inside the White Supremacist Group Hiding in Plain Sight.

by Carol Schaeffer and Fritz Zimmermann, special to ProPublica,

Nov. 8, 2019, 5 a.m. EST

Black Farmers Say a Top Chicken Company Turned Them Away

by Isaac Arnsdorf,

Nov. 8, 2019, 5 a.m. EST

The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting an American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After Dark

by Logan Jaffe,

Nov. 7, 2019, 12:15 p.m. CST

Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse

by Tristan Baurick, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate, Lylla Younes, ProPublica, and Joan Meiners, The Times-Picayune | The Advocate,

Oct. 30, 2019, 12 p.m. EDT

How We Identified the Frat Brothers Holding Guns in Front of an Emmett Till Memorial

by Thalia Beaty and Lucas Waldron,

Oct. 21, 2019, 10:51 a.m. EDT

This Lawyer Fought Housing Segregation. Now Wealthy Suburbanites Want to Fire His Firm.

by Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror,

Sept. 25, 2019, 5 a.m. EDT

Chicago City Council Approves Ticket and Debt Collection Reforms to Help Low-Income and Minority Motorists

by Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica Illinois, and Elliott Ramos, WBEZ Chicago,

Sept. 18, 2019, 1:20 p.m. CDT

He Spent Years Infiltrating White Supremacist Groups. Here’s What He Has to Say About What’s Going on Now.

by Joe Sexton,

Aug. 30, 2019, 1:05 p.m. EDT

Trump Called Baltimore “Vermin Infested” While the Federal Government Fails to Clean Up Rodents in Subsidized Housing

by Danielle Ohl, The Capital, and Molly Parker, The Southern Illinoisan,

Aug. 12, 2019, 5 a.m. EDT

Federal Government Wants to Hear From Heirs’ Property Owners

by Lizzie Presser,

July 26, 2019, 4:42 p.m. EDT

She’s Risked Arrest by Driving With a Suspended License for Seven Years. This Week She Got Some Big News.

by Melissa Sanchez,

July 26, 2019, 4 a.m. CDT

We Found Photos of Ole Miss Students Posing With Guns in Front of a Shot-Up Emmett Till Memorial. Now They Face a Possible Civil Rights Investigation.

by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting,

July 25, 2019, 1:35 p.m. EDT

“How in 2019 Do We Not Have Enough Spanish-Speaking Caseworkers?”

by Logan Jaffe,

July 19, 2019, 4 a.m. CDT

Illinois Lawmakers Demand Child Welfare Officials Better Serve Spanish-Speaking Families

by Duaa Eldeib and Melissa Sanchez,

July 18, 2019, 4 a.m. CDT

Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.

by Lizzie Presser,

July 15, 2019, 5 a.m. EDT

How to Close Heirs’ Property Loopholes

by Lizzie Presser,

July 15, 2019, 4:59 a.m. EDT