Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

L'uranium appauvri et l'héritage du cancer de la guerre en Irak

L'uranium appauvri a été utilisé dans l'armement de la zone de guerre en Irak, et maintenant les enfants jouent dans des champs contaminés et les armes usagées sont vendues comme ferraille.

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Par Frederick Reese
Four-year-old Alla Saleem, who suffers from a tumor in her eye, lies on her bed as she waits for medication Monday, January 15, 2001, at the Gazwan Children's Hospital in the southern Iraq town of Basra, about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the border with Kuwait. Iraqi authorities claim that about 300 tons of bombs with depleted uranium were used by the allied forces during the Gulf War bombing campaign, and this is responsible for the increase of cancer cases in the area. According to Doctor Jawal Al-Ali, chief cancer consultant of the Basra teaching hospital and member of the Royal College of physicians in London, the cases have multiplied by 12 since 1991. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

As instability in Iraq is forcing the United States to consider a third invasion of the Middle Eastern nation, the consequences of the first two invasions are coming into focus. For large sectors of the Iraqi population, American intervention has led to sharp spikes in the rates of congenital birth defects, premature births, miscarriages and

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Long-Term Incarceration Perpetuates Cycle Of Incarceration

In examining the incarceration rates between black and white Americans, Virginia Tech researchers conclude that long-term prison sentences are “contagious.”

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Par Frederick Reese
California Prisons

One in every three black men are likely to be incarcerated in their lifetimes, and as of 2011, there were more blacks imprisoned or under judicial supervision than were enslaved in 1850. While racial bias is the overwhelming factor driving sentencing disparities between black and white Americans, with fewer black defendants seeing their cases

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“Ag-Gag” Laws Shutting Out Farm Abuse Whistleblowers

The proliferation of laws that effectively label agriculture whistleblowers “terrorists” are stifling today’s would-be Upton Sinclairs and disrupting the public’s right to know.

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Par Frederick Reese
Travel Trip Indiana Industrial Farm

In 2012, advocacy group Mercy For Animals released hidden camera footage of recorded episodes of severe animal cruelty at a livestock auction outside of Los Angeles. The footage revealed “downed” animals -- sick or injured animals being left without veterinary care, food or water -- sick or compromised animals being manhandled onto transport trucks

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Billionaires Get More Media Attention Than The Poor

A new study reveals that although poverty is a very real issue affecting America, viewers may not get that impression from the major networks’ nightly news broadcasts.

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Par Frederick Reese
Letricia Brown

Poverty is an issue that touches many Americans. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, between January 2009 and December 2011, 31.6 percent of the national population experienced poverty for at least two months, with 5.4 percent of all Americans not in poverty in 2009 being in poverty by 2011. With the recovery from the Great Recession being one of

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DOJ Memo Highlights Questionable Reasoning Behind al-Awlaki Drone Strike

For the first time ever, Americans learn the United States’ criteria for killing Americans abroad.

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Par Frederick Reese
Mideast Yemen

The United States’ targeting and killing of Anwar al-Awlaki -- a natural-born American citizen -- by unmanned drone strike in Yemen in 2011 remains one of the most controversial actions taken under the Obama administration. It is clear that the U.S. suspected al-Awlaki of collaborating with al-Qaida -- alleging that he was a “regional commander”

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Whole Foods To Pay For Overcharging California Shoppers

A year-long investigation into Whole Foods’ pricing schemes in California shows that customers were being charged for more than premium groceries.

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Par Frederick Reese
Earns Whole Foods

In a settlement with California prosecutors, Whole Foods has agreed to pay approximately $800,000 in fees and penalties on allegations of overcharging California customers. The premium supermarket chain came under criticism after a year-long investigation by state and county Weights and Measures inspectors found that Whole Foods failed to deduct

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50 Years After Freedom Summer, America Still Struggles With Racism

How are the ripples of a 1962 campaign to register black voters in the Deep South being felt by black Americans today?

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Par Frederick Reese
Martin Luther King, Jr,

Fifty years ago, a remarkable campaign took place to challenge the notion of white supremacy in one of the nation’s most overtly racist states. Over a 10-week period, more than 1,000 out-of-state volunteers -- mostly white college students from the North -- joined thousands of black Mississippians in one of the largest voting registration drives in

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