The total number of hate groups in the United States recognized by the Southern Poverty Law Center rose to a record 1,020 last year.
Inequality
Back on the bus: A civil rights struggle rolls on
For people of color, banks are shutting the door to homeownership. Philadelphia’s transit agency has been fighting to keep this story off the streets.
Public housing tenants get $650,000 settlement for squalid living conditions
A Reveal investigation showed that officials allowed the housing project in Richmond, California to be overrun with roaches, mice, squatters and mold.
Oracle and Palantir said diversity figures were trade secrets. The real secret: Embarrassing numbers
The Labor Department initially sided with tech companies to block the data, but released it after Reveal filed a lawsuit.
No one on the inside can talk about what’s happening at the tent city for migrant kids
Lack of access to the pop-up federal detention camp has frustrated town residents and alarmed advocates who question the conditions there.
We got the government to reverse its longtime policy to get Silicon Valley diversity data
For years, the Labor Department has allowed federal contractors to block public records requests for their demographics by calling them trade secrets.
ICE gave $185 million deal to defense contractor under investigation for housing kids in office
Nine days before getting the new contract, defense contractor MVM was found to have housed migrant children in a vacant office building.
Hunting the ghost fleet (rebroadcast)
We hike through the jungles of El Salvador to find an elusive fleet of shark-fishing boats that are implicated in overfishing and possible human traff
Drug rehab patients demand back wages after being sent to work for free
Recovery Connections Community in North Carolina is one of many drug rehabs nationwide that put their clients to work in private businesses, and keep their wages.
Sen. Warren’s new bill is designed to combat modern-day redlining
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a bill that one advocate said would be the first law since 1968 “to redress a century of housing discrimination.”