Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

06/19/2026

As the Trump administration tries to erase the legacy of slavery and lynching from the nation’s museums, Bryan Stevenson’s Legacy Sites are confronting America’s full past head-on.

This Juneteenth, listen to this episode of More To The Story:

The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative talks about remembering the country’s darkest chapters as the Trump administration tries to erase America’s full history.

06/17/2026

The legendary racial justice activist Bryan Stevenson says today’s narrative struggle over the history of slavery and lynching in America is a generational civil rights battle.

Hear why on this week’s special episode of “More To The Story": https://tinyurl.com/mucvrwn9

06/16/2026

Decades before Covid-19 appeared, AIDS tore through the US, but there was little help for the most vulnerable communities.

This week, we partner with the Blindspot podcast to revisit the early years of the AIDS epidemic in NYC.

Decades before Covid-19 appeared, AIDS tore through the US, but there was little help for the most vulnerable communities.

06/16/2026

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06/13/2026

This week on Reveal: We partner with and to investigate the early days of AIDS in New York City.

As HIV tore through the city, some of the most vulnerable communities were being overlooked by researchers and policymakers.

Listen to “The Plague in the Shadows.”

Decades before Covid-19 appeared, AIDS tore through the US, but there was little help for the most vulnerable communities.

06/10/2026

Heather Cox Richardson’s millions of loyal readers look to her for sanity and democratic reassurance through her newsletter “Letters from an American.”

But that doesn’t mean the historian herself isn’t worried about where America’s heading.

Listen to our latest episode of More To The Story here: https://tinyurl.com/58p7hda4

06/06/2026

Americans are frustrated with the news. Local newsrooms are shrinking, leaving people in the dark and straining democracy. But what if we’re wrong about what’s really wrong with journalism?

On this week’s episode of Reveal, we team up with John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika for their latest season of Scene on Radio: The News.

We examine how American journalism got here and what can be done to repair the cracked foundation of the Fourth Estate.

Check it out at the link below: https://bit.ly/4dREYjn
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06/06/2026

Local newsrooms are drying up across the country, making it harder for people to stay informed and exacerbating a crisis of trust in the news media.

How American journalism got here and what can be done about it, on this week’s Reveal.

A majority of Americans say they don’t trust the news media. But what if people are wrong about what’s really wrong with journalism?

06/05/2026

“Tupac Shakur…was profoundly smart and in many ways incredibly enlightened, and there’s no reason he shouldn’t have his 12th Academy Award now."

Author Jeff Pearlman explains his obsession with the legendary hip-hop artist and why he set out to write a definitive biography.

06/03/2026

It’s impossible to overstate rapper Tupac Shakur’s influence on music and culture in the 1990s.

One of the era’s bestselling musical artists, Tupac helped define West Coast hip-hop through vulnerable, introspective lyrics and Black power politics. By his own admission, sports writer Jeff Pearlman is not the rapper’s likeliest biographer.

But as he waited for what he called “the big, fat biography” of Tupac, his impatience and long-standing fascination with the rapper got the best of him.

So he set out to write it himself.

On this week’s episode, Pearlman talks about his book Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur; discusses how Tupac’s Black Panther mother, Afeni Shakur, shaped her son; and examines the nuance and mystery surrounding Tupac’s life and death almost 30 years later.

Listen to the full episode here: https://tinyurl.com/ye2yy9yj