Criminal Justice
Bound by Statute
The actions of police, prosecutors and judges in Mississippi ultimately end the childhood of black kids far more often – and with far greater severity.
racism
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.
Kept Out
A Stacked Deck: A visual look at discriminatory lending in the U.S.
People of color continue to be denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts.
Kept Out
Gentrification became low-income lending law’s unintended consequence
A 1977 law, designed to correct redlining, didn’t anticipate a day when historically black neighborhoods would be sought by young white homebuyers.
Kept Out
How we identified lending disparities in federal mortgage data
Reveal analyzed publicly available data released through the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, combing through 31 million records for 2015 and 2016.
Kept Out
8 lenders that aren’t serving people of color for home loans
Among the 6,600 U.S. lenders, some stood out for particularly extreme practices.
Kept Out
For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership
Reveal’s analysis of mortgage data found evidence of modern-day redlining in 61 metro areas across the country.
Worked Over
Here’s one plan to stop exploitation in the temp industry
An Illinois bill would require temp agencies to track the race and gender of all job applicants. Supporters say it would provide evidence of discrimination when agencies shut out black workers in favor of Latino workers considered easier to exploit.
Criminal Justice
For migrants, route to a new home travels through mayhem, uncertainty
Every day, more than 50,000 people leave home on a quest triggered by the forces of nature or of man: disasters, violence, persecution, poverty. See what four photographers captured as they followed migrants on their journey.