Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting

08/22/2026

Land loss started for Black Americans when the government betrayed its “40 acres” promise to formerly enslaved people. Through tactics like overtaxation and eminent domain, it continued for decades.

This week on Reveal: the renewed push for reparations.

Calls for reparations were ignored for decades. But in some cities, outrage turned into action and local governments started taking up the cause.

08/20/2026

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Senator Adam Schiff explains how Democrats can use Trump's election lies for their political gain.

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08/20/2026

On this week’s “More To The Story,” Sen. Adam Schiff explains how Democrats can use Trump's election lies for their political gain.

Listen here: https://apple.co/4qCE279

08/19/2026

Sen. Adam Schiff is often on the receiving end of President Donald Trump’s rage online. It should be no surprise. Back in 2020, the California Democrat was the lead prosecutor during the first Trump impeachment trial as a member of the House of Representatives.

Now a senator, Schiff has been laying out a different strategy for how Democrats might challenge the president if they reclaim Congress.

Much of that strategy focuses on how the president has enriched himself in the White House—all at the expense, Schiff argues, of the American people.

On this week’s More To The Story, Schiff describes what it’s like to be an ever-present target of Trump’s ire, how the Israeli government has pushed longtime supporters like himself to criticize it more openly, and lays out his proposals for rebuilding America’s institutional guardrails in a post-Trump era.

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08/18/2026

Six miles from Mar-a-Lago, Guatemalan families are being ripped apart. Kids are left to fend for themselves as ICE detains their parents.

08/14/2026

After the Civil War, the US government promised formerly enslaved Black Americans their own land. This is where the phrase “40 acres and a mule comes from,” a promise that a lot of people think didn’t happen. But it did.

For the next three weeks, we’ll be re-airing our series “40 Acres and a Lie,” a historical investigation by Reveal and the Center for Public Integrity into how more than 1,200 Black Americans received actual land titles, then had them taken away, fueling a racial wealth gap that continues today.

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08/13/2026

ICE is reportedly outfitting its officers with electric shock gloves.

While its horrifying, this update is unsurprising considering the Trump administration has basically turned the agency into its own paramilitary force.

Investigative journalist Radley Balko examines the connections among Trump’s immigration crackdown, the militarization of police, and America’s long-running drug war.

08/12/2026

Cyclospora. Measles. Vaccines. Legionnaires’ Disease. Andes virus. Dr. Fauci. And that’s just a round-up of health news from this summer.

Hear epidemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera make sense of it all on this week’s “More To The Story."

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08/09/2026

40 acres and a mule wasn’t just a broken promise—we unearthed documents that show Black Americans got land, then had it taken away.

Our historical investigation found 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were given land—only to see it returned to their enslavers.

08/08/2026

40 Acres and a Mule wasn’t just a broken promise. It was a betrayal of Black Americans that has fueled a racial wealth gap that continues today.

This week on Reveal, we're revisiting the first in our three-part series: 40 Acres and a Lie.

Our historical investigation found 1,250 formerly enslaved Black Americans who were given land—only to see it returned to their enslavers.