Newspapers printed hate for scores of years, leading to racist violence

Over several decades, hundreds of white-owned newspapers across the U.S. fueled racist hate crimes against Black Americans.

In the 1880s, election fraud and a massacre stopped Black progress

White supremacists and newspapers conspired to take down a progressive, integrated party in Danville, Virginia.

Public housing, the last refuge for the poor, threatens to kick out tenants for small debts

Public housing is supposed to be a solution to homelessness, not a cause of it. The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism analyzed four years of eviction data to find out why five public-housing authorities are taking so many of their clients to court.

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Saltwater Invasion The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism East Coast residents have ‘false sense of security’ about threats from invading saltwater By Gracie Todd and Bill Lambrecht  -  November 23, 2020 Around the country, scientists are sounding the alarm about…
Trump administration proposes step back from ‘housing first’ homeless policy

A new federal plan to end homelessness released this week by the Trump Administration calls for a reversal of Obama-era “housing first” policies.

Thousands urge Washington and the world to take action on climate change

By NORA ECKERT, DAN NOVAK, HEATHER KIM, AYANA ARCHIE and HORUS ALAS  Capital News Service WASHINGTON – Thousands took to the streets of the nation’s capital on Friday as part of a global youth strike for climate change, wielding signs…