CHICAGO – Several employees openly talked to The TRiiBE’s Corli Jay about lawsuits filed against the utility company ConEd, alleging civil rights violations, a hostile work environment and unlawful employment practices. Focusing on one former employee who worked at ComEd for over ten years, Corli’s piece details the allegations including hostile work environment, discrimination, blackballing,
Many Midwest states and outdoor organizations are now trying to reach groups that haven’t historically participated in hunting — including women. But while women make up about a third of new hunters, many face barriers to break into and continue with the sport. Teresa Homsi’s piece on women in hunting examines a common part of
LANCASTER, Ohio – Ben Jodway reports on the LGBTQ+ community in rural Ohio for the Buckeye Flame, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to representing the voices of LGBTQ+ Ohioans. In this piece, he reveals that a recent conservative boycott in the small town of Lancaster, Ohio, is just part of increasing division in the community. Ben’s
PERU, New York – At Rulfs Orchard, men travel from Jamaica yearly to live and work in the Adirondack community from April to November. This is part of a long tradition of Jamaican workers who have helped to sustain the orchard since the 1980s, when they began recruiting laborers under the federal government’s H-2A visa
VICTORIA, Texas — The City Council chambers usually feels quiet, and often a little stiff. Council members meet in the same chamber used by the municipal court judge, and it’s apparent. Elected officials sit on a raised dais and feel far away from the public they serve. The city’s public library, on the other hand,
On the Ground in EL PASO, Texas — At dusk on a Friday night in October, big, white buses pull up near the Greyhound station and dozens of parents and children emerge. Some clutch important documents or carry plastic bags filled with precious possessions. They file into the station, with its tile floors and green metal
On the Ground in SUMNER, Mississippi — The courthouse where Emmett Till’s murderers were acquitted has been restored to look like it did during his 1956 trial, when his abduction, torture and murder shocked and shamed the nation. It’s an unassuming and stately building. Rows of identical brown seats face the flags of Mississippi and
On the Ground — On a muggy July evening, I sat on the dusty wooden floor of a cluttered one-bedroom house in Fitzgerald, Georgia, with notebook and pen in hand. Andres Diego and his wife, Wyona, sat across from me on a leaky queen-sized air mattress, speaking softly over the hum of a window unit on
On the Ground — Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, one of the state’s three main prisons, is located in a sparse pocket of the town of Pearl, a few minutes outside of Jackson. To reach its gates, I drove south from the newsroom one July morning, exiting the interstate and winding through a couple of two-lane roads
On the Ground in JACKSON, Miss. — It was almost Independence Day and Lee Eric Evans straightened a flag pole on his aunt’s front porch and respectfully unfurled an American flag so that it hung properly. He wanted to make sure it didn’t touch the ground. It was July 3 and Lee, 26, was fussing