💕 Such a beautiful love story for Valentine's Day.🥹

Today marks the first day of the #LunarNewYear , and Manhattan's #Chinatown hosted its annual New Year Firecracker Ceremony & Cultural Festival.

It stands as one of the oldest and largest events in NYC’s Lunar New Year celebrations.

🎥: April Xu

IMPACT: New York lawmakers credit our wage theft reporting in Documented and ProPublica with helping inspire their proposed legislation to strip violators of the ability to conduct business in the state documentedny.com/2024/01/31/wag…

💥AWESOME: Thrilled to see that Senate Labor @jessicaramos is writing legislation based off Documented and ProPublica 's years-long investigation into NY's wage theft!
documentedny.com/2024/01/31/wag…

'We did not have the data to understand the scale of the issue in New York State until the ProPublica and Documented series came out last year,' @jessicaramos said.

documentedny.com/2024/01/31/wag…

Sleeping in winter coats. Living miles from the closest subway stop. Evacuating in heavy rain & wind.
W/⁦⁦Rommel H Ojeda⁩, migrants shared their experiences living at Floyd Bennett Field, a shelter that has become a flashpoint for the migrant crisis documentedny.com/2024/01/31/mig…

After an exciting start this morning, our #LatinaLeadership group headed to Documented to meet with Co-Executive Directors and Founders Max Siegelbaum & Mazin Sidahmed to discuss their journey founding and leading a newsroom. Of course, we made our way there on the MTA. 🚃

Help us raise $100,000 in the next 30 days! baltimorebeat.com/help-us-raise-…

Alhasahisa Reaistance Committees make an appeal to humanitarian & other relevant orgs to provide support to healthcare facilities in the locality and state at large.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

#حوجة_الحصاحيصا
لجان المقاومة - الحصاحيصا
مناشدة لكل المنظمات والجهات ذات الصلة للسعي في توفير احتياجات المراكز الصحية في المحلية والولاية عامة.

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What a crazy, hectic + challenging year.

Here are some stories I wrote for ProPublica Documented Capital & Main Adventure.com, starting off w/ this investigative story on wage theft in New York where workers are owed $79 million in back wages
propublica.org/article/new-yo…

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Loved working on this positive story with Rommel H Ojeda ⚽️🥅

A soccer academy in Queens fosters a community for immigrant kids, coaches and families:
documentedny.com/2023/12/11/5-s…

My latest for Documented

Hilarion Joseph, a decorated veteran who served on the front lines during the Gulf War, fought deportation for over three years in the Hudson County Correctional Facility while coping with PTSD. He became a vocal advocate for immigrants and vets.

💫The MTA worker who died last week was much more though than that. Please read: 'Remembering Hilarion Joseph: A Trinidadian Gulf War Vet, Advocate for Deported Veterans and Beloved Father of Six' 🖊️by Ralph Thomassaint documentedny.com/2023/12/08/hil…

NYC City Council is currently holding a hearing on immigrant students in public schools. Officials are discussing a # of topics, including migrant children missing school as the city moves them from one shelter to another. Read our coverage on the issue:
documentedny.com/2023/11/20/mig…

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