Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War – a racist system known as convict leasing.
Nikki Frick
Associate Editor, Research and Copy
Nikki Frick is the associate editor for research and copy for Reveal. She previously worked as a copy editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and held internships at The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and Washingtonpost.com. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was an American Copy Editors Society Aubespin scholar. Frick is based in Milwaukee.
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In the decade since George Zimmerman killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, stand your ground laws have expanded across the nation. And with them come more homicides.
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Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 2
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Buried Secrets: America’s Indian Boarding Schools Part 1
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The Long Campaign to Turn Birth Control Into the New Abortion
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Locked Up: The Prison Labor That Built Business Empires
Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War – a racist system known as convict leasing.