How Misidentifying Trans Victims of Violence Can Undermine Criminal Investigations
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica. Aea Celestice, a black transgender woman living in Jacksonville, Florida, has the most basic of plans for the next chapter of her life: She hopes to get out of town before someone kills her. Celestice, 32,…
Rents Are Too Damn High and the World Is Too Damn Hot. Both Are About to Make Gentrification Worse.
A young woman walks through the parking lot of a Conroe, Texas, house whose owners have installed tents. A thin sheet of snow blanketed the Houston area on December 8, 2017. Alicia L. Pérez/EFE/ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part…
Donald Trump Asked, “What Do You Have to Lose?” This Illinois Town Found Out.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In April 2017, Demarion Duncan learned he’d have to move. That in itself would not be the end of the world; the McBride public housing project in Cairo, Illinois, where the 12-year-old Duncan lived with his mom, dad, and two younger siblings, was falling apart.…
She Spoke out About Climate Change—and They Tried to Make Her Pay for It
Grist / Sarah Myhre Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2015, a University of California, Davis researcher named Sarah Moffit appeared in a four-and-a-half-minute video detailing her work studying ancient ocean ecosystems. Looking young and serious, with a long…
United States Gets an F for Failing to Help Its Neediest
Jerry Kinchen, 61, accepts food from a religious mission pantry in Holiday, Florida, in August 2009.Kainaz Amaria/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A blistering report delivered to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council Friday morning slammed America’s record on poverty, two days after ambassador Nikki Haley announced that the United States…
Driving While Black Has Gotten Even Worse
A protest in April after the controversial arrest of two black men at a Starbucks in Philadelphia.Bastiaan Slabbers / ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. There is a stark new statistic out from the office of Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley: In 2017, black drivers in the state were 85…