In dozens of cities across the country, lenders are more likely to deny loans to applicants of color than white ones.

Jennifer LaFleur
Senior Editor, Data
Jennifer LaFleur worked at The Center for Investigative Reporting until September, 2017. Jennifer LaFleur is senior editor for data journalism for Reveal. Previously, she was the director of computer-assisted reporting at ProPublica and has held similar roles at The Dallas Morning News, the San Jose Mercury News and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was the first training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors. She has won awards for her coverage of disability, legal and open government issues. LaFleur is based in Reveal’s Emeryville, California, office.
Once-secret films of US nuclear bomb testing made public
A weapons physicist and a team of experts spent five years acquiring and declassifying footage from the U.S. nuclear testing program.
Atomic veterans continue push for recognition and compensation
Bills in Congress seek to recognize veterans who participated in the U.S. nuclear testing program.
Bills seek to recognize atomic veterans
Decades after hundreds of thousands of veterans participated in the U.S. nuclear testing program, two bills in Congress seek to recognize their service.
America’s atomic tests
Between 1946 and 1962, the U.S. detonated more than 200 nuclear bombs above ground and underwater. We profile each test and map out the shots.
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Welcome to our new data page
Whether it’s an analysis that forms the basis of an investigation or an interactive app that helps readers explore an important issue, data is vital to the work we do every day.
The code for cracking cold cases
We created a new Web tool – using information from the NamUs database – in order to make it easier to match missing and unidentified people . Senior data editor Jennifer LaFleur explains how it works.
Child care records for San Mateo County now online
With the help of NBC Bay Area and Stanford University journalism students, Reveal has expanded its online child care database – which already includes records for Santa Clara, Alameda, Contra Costa and Napa counties – with data for San Mateo County.
California day care centers stay open despite long lists of violations
Ten day care centers in California have racked up more than two dozen serious violations in the past five years, but all still are licensed and operat