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Read our original investigation from last year:

How a Grad Student Uncovered the Largest Known Slave Auction in the U.S.

Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding ...

UPDATE: The state has offered to send up to 10 prosecutors to Anchorage, days after the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica reported that hundreds of misdemeanor cases had been dropped since May because the city couldn’t hit court deadlines for speedy trials.

After Mass Dismissals in Anchorage, Alaska Officials Step in to Help Prosecute Crimes

The state offered to send up to 10 prosecutors to Anchorage days after the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica reported that hundreds of misdemeanor cases had been dropped since May because the city c...

Last month, ProPublica detailed how the government’s foremost authorities on humanitarian assistance — the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department’s refugees bureau — concluded this past spring that Israel had deliberately blocked deliveries of food and medicine into Gaza.

Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, Two Government Bodies Concluded. Antony Blinken Rejected Them.

Blinken told Congress, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting” aid, even though the U.S. Agency for International Development and others had de...

8/ Meredith McCoy, an educator of Native descent, notes federal law guarantees Native education, yet “the patterns of underfunding are so extreme that it’s hard not to see it as a systematic approach to underfunding Native people." Read the full story below ⬇️

Tribal College Campuses Are Falling Apart. The U.S. Hasn’t Fulfilled Its Promise to Fund the Schools.

Decades ago, Congress made a commitment to fund a higher education system for Indigenous communities. But a quarter-billion-dollar annual shortfall has led to crimped budgets and crumbling buildings, ...

7/ The Bureau of Indian Education said when it requests funding, it follows guidelines set by the Dept. of the Interior + the White House. A dept. spokesperson directed us to the White House budget office; a budget office spokesperson declined an interview, directing us back to the Interior Dept.