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September 2021

Rights

WV lawmakers promise look at system that left foster kids in abusive out-of-state facilities       

Editor's note: This story provides an update to the "No shelter: West Virginia’s foster care crisis" special report....

Sep 28, 2021
Rights

West Virginia knows how to keep kids out of foster care. But funding for key programs has been in short supply.

Editor's note: This is Part 3 in a three-part series, investigating West Virginia's foster care system. Read Part...

Sep 23, 2021
Rights

Here to Stay: ‘More Italian than us’

"More Italian than us" https://vimeo.com/605096913 When the Rainbow Choir reunited for its first rehearsals after the pandemic last...

Sep 22, 2021
Rights

Foster kids need families to live with and state social workers to check on them. West Virginia doesn’t have enough of either

Editor's note: This is Part 2 in a three-part series, investigating West Virginia's foster care system. Read Part...

Sep 22, 2021
Faith

These women say they were sexually abused by Southern Baptist leaders. Now they’re forcing a reckoning

Tens of thousands gathered in June at the Music City Center in Nashville for the Southern Baptist Convention’s...

Sep 21, 2021
Rights

West Virginia’s reliance on out-of-state group homes leaves some foster kids in unsafe, abusive situations

In early 2015, West Virginia state inspectors visited an all-boys group home in Grove City, Pennsylvania. There were...

Sep 21, 2021
Announcements

GroundTruth receives grant from groundbreaking cryptocurrency-backed community fund

The GroundTruth Project, home to Report for America, receives $165,000 grant from groundbreaking cryptocurrency-backed community fund launched by...

Sep 20, 2021
Rights

The empty promises of the Taliban on press freedom in Afghanistan

The disturbing photographs that depict blue and red welts across the backs of journalists say all one needs...

Sep 13, 2021
Columns

In Afghanistan, truth was sacrificed and lessons were forgotten

“In war, truth is the first casualty.” Those words trace back to Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy....

Sep 10, 2021
War and Peace

After the collapse of hope, uncertainty and fear for thousands of Afghans

Editor's note: This story continues the coverage of the stories of several Afghans featured in our recent story...

Sep 10, 2021
Photography

A war of images: a record of America’s dissonance in Afghanistan

For most Americans, an understanding of the war’s end in Afghanistan came through the pictures they saw. Afghans...

Sep 10, 2021
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