It’s here! In this episode, ⁦April Simpson⁩ & Nadia Hamdan 🤌🏼 نادية حمدان take us to a plantation in SC that was granted to former slaves. They talk to descendants of a freedman whose 40 acres were revoked & to descendants of his enslaver. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rev… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rev…

Looking forward to this! Also, catch us tonight on A Closer Look on WABE in Atlanta and also on WUNC tomorrow.

Don’t miss April Simpson’s story about 40 Acres and a Mule from the perspective of two families: The descendants of a freedman who received a title to 40 acres & the descendants of his enslaver, who inherited the plantations returned to their ancestor.

Another one! The story behind the man behind the first document The Center for Public Integrity's Alexia Fernández Campbell identified and what it means to his great-great granddaughter. motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

For @PublicIntegrity's #40AcresandaLie, @PratheekRebala built a tool to search nearly 1.8 million Freedmen's Bureau documents, even those not yet transcribed. Here are just a few documents related to June 19th, 1865 in Galveston: freedmen.motherjones.com/document/NMAAH…

Had a great conversation with amna about 40 Acres and Lie. Airing in 30 minutes on PBS News pbs.org/newshour/

A new investigative report reveals that while the federal government did grant land to the formerly enslaved after the Civil War, it also took that land back and returned it to white southerners. amna speaks to Alexia Fernández Campbell to learn more.

Such an eye-opening story by The Center for Public Integrity’s Kate Hapgood about the national income gap in voter turnout washingtoncitypaper.com/article/722183…

40 Acres and a Lie – Mother Jones motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

Out today: Nadia Hamdan 🤌🏼 نادية حمدان and I visit an expensive gated community in Georgia where dozens of freed families received land titles & had built an independent Black settlement — A 40 Acres utopia that wouldn’t last long… The Center for Public Integrity podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rev…

So happy to be reunited with my girl Alejandra Cancino — who also just won a board seat Investigative Reporters & Editors 💪🏼

The best surprise

Reporter Alexia Fernández Campbell joined Victor Blackwell CNN on CNN 's First of All over the weekend to discuss '40 Acres and a Lie.' 🧵(1/3)

NEW: Calls for reparations were ignored for decades. Now, local governments are taking up the cause – and outrage is growing. In the last episode of 40 Acres and a Lie, we explore the renewed push for giving reparations to descendants of enslaved people. revealnews.org/podcast/40-acr…

The July Sidney Award goes to The Center for Public Integrity, Mother Jones, and Reveal for uncovering exciting new evidence of the US's first attempt at reparations for slavery, the betrayal that followed, and the wounds that endure: hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-awards/…

This is what Chicagoans are dealing with: Injustice Watch found thousands of lower-income renters are trapped in unsafe buildings, forced to pay rising rents, even as many landlords are allowed to shirk their responsibilities to keep buildings safe. injusticewatch.org/projects/tenan…