USA TODAY launched a new yearlong network project on Thursday, “Never Been Told: The Lost History of People of Color,” to elevate, through deeply reported investigative and explanatory journalism, the people, places and ideas that are often excluded from history books.
The ambitious project aligns with Gannett’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in its news coverage and initiatives. It highlights unseen, unheard, unheralded and forgotten stories with newly found records, documents, research and eyewitness accounts. With support from Gannett’s more than 250 local news sites in 46 states and Guam, USA TODAY will publish an in-depth story each month with accompanying video, historical photographs and graphics.
The series kicks off with the story of Jimmie Lee Jackson, whose killing by an Alabama state trooper on February 18, 1965 sparked the Selma to Montgomery marches for Black voting rights.
