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Trauma can be hard to talk about. It can also be hard to hear: Reporter’s Notebook

Jessica Washington shares how she developed relationships with sources while investigating how Native mothers experience the Minnesota foster care system.

Minnesota’s foster care system perpetuates the legacy of racist boarding schools, Native mothers and experts say

For many Native mothers, the fear of having their children ripped away from them and the ripple effects of generations of forced family separations remain omnipresent.

Co-published with Mother Jones, with support from the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism National Health Journalism Fellowship

Claira’s story: A ‘Broken, Normal’ Woman Preyed Upon by ‘Life’

More than 200 cases of sex or labor trafficking have been reported from Alabama to the national trafficking hotline since 2015.

by Rikha Sharma Rani

This article was originally published in Montgomery Advertiser.

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Trauma can be hard to talk about. It can also be hard to hear: Reporter’s Notebook

Minnesota’s foster care system perpetuates the legacy of racist boarding schools, Native mothers and experts say

Claira’s story: A ‘Broken, Normal’ Woman Preyed Upon by ‘Life’

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