Warning: This story contains brief descriptions of alleged rape and sexual assault.Roger Bonair-Agard was one of the most well-known slam poets of his generation, known for his work addressing race, colonialism, and sexuality. But, as grantee Taylor Moore uncovered in her investigation for the Chicago Reader, Bonair-Agard was accused of rape in 2013 and continued to work in the Chicago arts scene ...
Iowa State Patrol troopers, who stop more than 150,000 motorists a year, provide security at the state Capitol and staff high-profile events including RAGBRAI, don’t wear body cameras, according to grantee Erin Jordan’s new report in the Bellevue Herald-Leader.About 90 percent of more than 200 Iowa law enforcement agencies that responded to a survey last fall about body camera use ...
The Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia series explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. In the series’ most recent installment, Michelle Gamage uncovered the key jobs for a net-zero carbon emissions future economy that may be around the corner. Find out which jobs will help spawn an economy based on healing the climate in Cascadia, here. ...
As part of its ongoing reporting into the aftermath of the 2020 election, grantees at Bridge Michigan recently obtained hundreds of pages of emails from Barry County Sheriff Dar Leaf through the Freedom of Information Act. According to grantee Jonathan Oosting’s recent investigation, the emails detail Leaf’s unsuccessful efforts to obtain voting machines and inspect them. The records also indicate ...
Jo Napolitano’s remarkable new book, “The School I Deserve: Six Young Refugees and Their Fight for Equality in America,” details the civil rights battle waged across the country on behalf of immigrant children denied access to education in the nation’s public school system. Through one federal lawsuit in Pennsylvania where several young refugees demanded to be heard, Napolitano tells the larger story.The outcome ...
An audit by Chicago’s Office of the Inspector General into the overtime spending of the city’s police department prompted grantees at South Side Weekly to investigate. Jim Daley and Kiran Misra’s series has uncovered a trove of new information regarding who in the department earned the most overtime and when overtime spending occurred. In their most recent investigation, Daley details ...
Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a ...
In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the farming town of Corcoran has a multimillion-dollar problem. It is almost impossible to see, yet so vast it takes NASA scientists using satellite technology to fully grasp. Corcoran is sinking.According to a new investigation by grantees at The Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism, over the past 14 years, the town has sunk as much ...
Ryan Kelley climbed on scaffolding, helped a man who was moving a police barricade and repeatedly waved fellow protesters toward the Capitol riots in Washington on Jan. 6. Now he’s running for governor in Michigan. Several other people who participated in the riots are running for Congress or state office in Michigan. Jonathan Oosting and our grantees at Bridge Michigan ...
Residents of a former mill town rallied for a longtime local police officer after she filed a harassment complaint against the new police chief in 2020. Within a year, the police department was disbanded, the chief was fired, then unfired, two town managers were terminated and the town agreed to $250,000 in settlements with two former officers.But little of what ...