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The state’s fund to help school districts repair unsafe buildings has only been used twice since it was set up in 2006 — and not at all in the last decade.

Over 60 years ago, white leaders of Newport News, Virginia uprooted a Black community to build a college. The few families remaining are still being pressured to sell, ProPublica uncovers.

As a teenager, Brandi Kellam competed in track meets at Christopher Newport University. As a reporter, she unearthed the painful history behind the campus’s location.

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As a teenager, I competed in track meets at Christopher Newport University. As a reporter, I unearthed the painful history behind the campus’s location.

Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

From 2017 through 2021, investigators found, more than $203 million in wages had been stolen from about 127,000 workers in New York.

Northwest SOIL cannot accept new students after investigators found “unacceptably high” use of restraints and isolation.