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Saturday, June 22, 2024

Hello! In this issue:
* The latest in our 40 Acres and a Lie series: how a freedmen’s utopia became a wealthy White enclave.
* After seeing “Victim/Suspect,” legislators in Connecticut passed a law aimed at protecting sexual assault victims.
* “The Grab,” our deeply reported thriller on global resource theft, is in theaters and streaming now!


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** 40 Acres and a Lie Part 2
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Today, Skidaway Island, Georgia, is home to a luxurious community that the residents, mostly White, consider paradise: waterfront views, live oaks and marsh grass alongside golf courts, swimming pools and other amenities.

In 1865, the island was a thriving Black community, started by freedmen who were given land by the government under the 40 acres and a mule program. They farmed, created a system of government and turned former cotton plantations into a Black American success story.

But it wouldn’t last. Within two years, the federal government took that land back from the freedmen and returned it to the former enslavers. Today, 40 acres in The Landings development is worth about $2 million.

The history of that land is largely absent from day-to-day life. But over a two-and-a-half-year investigation, journalists at the Center for Public Integrity have unearthed records that prove that dozens of freed people had, and lost, titles to tracts at what’s now The Landings.

This week on Reveal, in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity, we show a descendant her ancestor’s land titles in what would become an exclusive gated community – land he received and had taken away. We also look at how buried documents like these Reconstruction-era land titles are part of the long game toward reparations.
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** New Connecticut Law Aims to Support Victims of Sexual Assault – and Prevent Them From Being Treated Like Suspects
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by Rachel de Leon

A landmark bill aimed at standardizing and improving the way police treat victims in the aftermath of a sexual assault has become law in Connecticut.

The new law establishes a council that will create a model policy for police responding to sexual assault and requires that officers offer certain services to victims and their children. Every law enforcement agency in the state will have to meet or exceed the model policy by September 2025.

A co-sponsor of the bill cited an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting in her testimony about the need for sexual assault victims to be treated better by law enforcement.

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“The Grab” is a global thriller combining hard-hitting journalism from The Center for Investigative Reporting with the compelling, character-driven storytelling of “Blackfish” director Gabriela Cowperthwaite, taking you around the globe – from China to Russia and the boardrooms of Wall Street – to reveal one of the world’s biggest and least-known threats.

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