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April Simpson is a South Florida-based freelance journalist. She's written for the Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, International Business Times and Fort Lauderdale Magazine.

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Looking back at two years of abortion bans in Louisiana; how the U.S. betrayed Black landowners after the Civil War

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By Karen Henderson, April Simpson Verified
| WWNO-FM (New Orleans, LA) Verified
Today marks two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade — triggering a Louisiana law that bans nearly all abortions. That’s had major implications for women’s health in the state. WWNO/WRKF public health reporter Rosemary Westwood has covered the fallout of the ban. She takes stock of where we’re at two years after the end of federally protected abortion rights.
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Richmond Free Press

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By Alexia Fernández Campbell Verified, April Simpson Verified, Pratheek Rabala
| richmondfreepress.com
A government program gave formerly enslaved people land after the Civil War, only to take nearly all of it back a year and a half later. We used artificial intelligence to track down the people, places and stories that had long been misunderstood and forgotten, then asked their descendants about what’s owed now. 40 Acres and a Lie tells the history of an often-misunderstood government program that gave formerly enslaved people land titles after the Civil War.
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40 Acres And A Lie

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By Alexia Fernández Campbell Verified, April Simpson Verified, Pratheek Rebala Verified
| Essence Verified
This project is a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Investigative Reporting Workshop. Read more here. Pompey Jackson was born in the heart of Georgia’s rice empire—the human property of one of the state’s wealthiest and most powerful families. He and his sisters were among hundreds enslaved on a sprawling marshland estate called Grove Hill, where life was brutal. People died every month, mostly young children.
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