In/Vulnerable
‘It felt like the floor was giving in on me.’
Part of our illustrated series on inequity in the time of pandemic.
Staff
Biography
Anayansi Diaz-Cortes is a reporter and producer for Reveal. Her work has been featured everywhere from All Things Considered to Radio Ambulante and This American Life. She is a recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation award. She was the creator and lead producer for KCRW’s Sonic Trace, a storytelling project that was part of AIR’s Localore initiative. Previously, she produced for Radio Diaries and has done extensive reporting in both the U.S. and Mexico. She is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
Articles
COVID-19
Home school
Online learning works only if you can get online. We explore why tens of thousands of families are caught on the wrong side of the digital divide.
Accountability
Harpooned by Facebook
As the pandemic sends more people online for entertainment, we look at how companies such as Facebook turn information about their users into profits.
COVID-19
Essential workers
Farmworkers, grocery store clerks and airline employees are on the front lines of the coronavirus crisis. But what’s being done to protect them?
Kids on the Line
Six years separated
A 10-year-old girl is separated from her family at the border and enters U.S. custody. Now she’s 17 and still in a shelter. Her family can’t find her.
Criminal Justice
Development arrested
We go to Mississippi to learn about a set of laws that automatically send kids into the adult legal system for certain crimes.
Criminal Justice
The lynching of Thomas Finch
In 1936, a black man was killed by an Atlanta policeman who became a KKK leader. We explore why the city doesn’t recognize the case as a lynching.
Accountability
Harpooned by Facebook
As smart devices become a bigger part of our lives, we look at how Facebook and other companies profit from information about their users.
Law Enforcement
Cops on a crime spree
They belonged to an elite police task force charged with getting guns off Baltimore’s streets. Instead, the plainclothes cops roamed the city, robbing people on the street, breaking into homes to steal money and drugs, and planting evidence on their victims.
Accountability
The City – revealed
The story of a mysterious illegal dump in a Chicago neighborhood that grew to be six stories high and a cover for a federal investigation.