This year, ProPublica documentaries explored how university expansion led to Black land loss, retraced the steps of the Uvalde shooting response, documented the fallout of the Philips breathing machine recall and more... 🧵👇
2/ “Inside the Uvalde Response,” with @TexasTribune & @frontlinepbs, reconstructs one of the most criticized mass shooting responses in history, providing real-time insight into officers’ thoughts & actions. youtu.be/bBofi_etkUo?fe…
3/ In 2021, Philips recalled millions of breathing machines. “With Every Breath” is an intimate glimpse at what happens when patients and a doctor learn that a lifesaving device may be causing harm. w/@PittsburghPG youtu.be/pkE8JIc5E0A
4/ Our first animated documentary “The Night Doctrine” traces the story of Lynzy Billing, who returned to Afghanistan to find out who killed her family 30 years earlier, only to stumble upon a secretive U.S.-backed program killing hundreds of civilians. youtu.be/W4UPsLYhARU
5/ In “Uprooted,” with @VCIJ_Tweet, James & Barbara Johnson tell the story of their beloved neighborhood, Shoe Lane, a Black community displaced by the creation & expansion of what is now Christopher Newport University. youtu.be/o80ENCqNFAc
6/ “Silver Dollar Road” from Oscar-nominated director Raoul Peck looks at the dispossession of Black landowners through the Reels family, who embarked on a decades-long journey to save their land, their homes and their history. propublica.org/article/silver…
7/ About 5,000 people a year are killed in crashes involving large trucks. With @frontlinepbs, “America’s Dangerous Trucks” examines one particularly gruesome kind of truck collision — underride crashes — and why they keep happening. youtu.be/1LyaWzOesXk
@propublica @frontlinepbs Thousands of deaths would have been prevented if @NHTSAgov had acted on @NTSB's 1971 call for side underride guards on trailers. It's time to use facts and data to end Death by Underride. #STOPunderrides storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1412b2…