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Mississippi Goddam Chapter 5: Star Crossed

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Billey Joe Johnson Jr. and Hannah Hollinghead met in their freshman year of high school. Hollinghead s…

4 years, 1 month ago

Mississippi Goddam Chapter 4: The Investigator

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Special Agent Joel Wallace of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation was called in to investigate the…

4 years, 2 months ago

Mississippi Goddam Chapter 3: The Autopsy

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After Billey Joe Johnson Jr. died in 2008, the state of Mississippi outsourced his autopsy. Al Letson …

4 years, 2 months ago

Mississippi Goddam Chapter 2: The Aftermath

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On the morning of Billey Joe Johnson’s death, crime scene tape separates the Johnsons from their son’s…

4 years, 2 months ago

Mississippi Goddam Chapter 1: The Promise

Billey Joe Johnson Jr. was a high school football star headed for the big time. Then, early one morning in 2008, the Black teenager died during a tra…

4 years, 2 months ago

When Abusers Keep Their Guns

Reveal’s Jennifer Gollan leads an investigation that exposes the consequences of passing gun laws with no teeth. For the first time, Reveal tallies t…

4 years, 3 months ago

Preview Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe

Sometimes one story can tell you everything about race and justice in America. Reveal’s new series, “Mississippi Goddam: the Ballad of Billey Joe” is…

4 years, 3 months ago

Preview Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe

Sometimes one story can tell you everything about race and justice in America. Reveal’s new series, “Mississippi Goddam: the Ballad of Billey Joe” is…

4 years, 3 months ago

Weapons with minds of their own

The future of warfare is being shaped by computer algorithms that are assuming ever greater control over battlefield technology. Will this give machi…

4 years, 3 months ago

A Racial Reckoning at Doctors Without Borders

For decades, Doctors Without Borders has been admired for bringing desperately needed medical care to crises around the globe and pioneering modern-d…

4 years, 3 months ago