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  • Pratheek Rebala

    Pratheek Rebala is an investigative journalist and news developer at the Center for Public Integrity. His work at the Center has received a Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting as well as other honors from the Society of Professional Journalists, Editors & Publishers, Society of Environmental Journalists and more. Prior to joining the Center, Rebala worked on the data team at Time Magazine. He holds a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from George Washington University.


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    • A collage illustration that marries imagery of William T. Sherman with fertile sunlit land and a map. Also in the image are Union soldiers and Black Americans around the time of the Civil War. Overlaying the image is Sherman’s Special Field Orders, No. 15, which reserved coastal land in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida for the formerly enslaved to live and work on and govern themselves. However, at the top of the illustration is the image of a handshake between a Black and white man…torn in two.

      40 Acres and a Lie

      Alexia Fernández Campbell, April Simpson, and Pratheek Rebala

    • A collage illustration that centers President Andrew Johnson. Included is a snippet of Johnson’s pardon of a plantation owner after the Civil War. To the left and right of Johnson’s portrait is his paper silhouette, which frames a gathering of Black people, as well as a golf course. Skidaway Island, the land that was once granted to formerly enslaved Black people by William Sherman’s Special Field Orders, No. 15, is now an enclave for the wealthy.

      Paradise Stolen

      Alexia Fernández Campbell and Pratheek Rebala

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