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

Detroit’s Water Crisis A Symptom Of Urban Shrinkage

Water shutoffs are affecting huge swathes of a city that can’t afford to pay, prompting nearly 80 people to steal water. Is urban renewal worth the costs?

Frederick Reese
By Frederick Reese
Detroit Water Shutoffs

Dewilda Hershey moved into her home in Detroit’s west side last year, and since then, she says she’s been contacting the city’s water company to get a bill. "The hold time is ridiculous. One time I was on hold for an hour and a half," she told Detroit’s WDIV-TV. Without warning and without ever sending Hershey a bill, the Detroit Water and

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New Snowden Docs Reveal British Spy Agency Tactic To Manipulate Social Media

Manipulating the results of online polls, artificially inflating pageview counts, spoofing email accounts — the U.K.’s secretive GCHQ can do it all, and maybe more.

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By Frederick Reese

In the year since Edward Snowden disclosed classified documents detailing the private dealings of the intelligence communities of the “Five Eyes” -- the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand -- and their covert surveillance of civilian electronic communications, the world has grown privy to the lengths that these

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50 Years After Harlem Riot, Police Brutality Still A Concern

We could learn a lot by examining cases of police brutality and abuses of power, but most instances aren’t even investigated or reported.

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By Frederick Reese
police

On July 16, 1964, a white off-duty New York City police lieutenant fatally shot a black ninth-grader in Harlem on allegations that the teenager had a knife and was lunging at the officer. While the details of exactly what happened that day are still hotly contested and debated, it would seem that the event was racially motivated. It triggered a

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A Growing Role For Blacks In Republican Politics?

Despite a series of miscues and shenanigans, the Mississippi Senate primary may have shown a shift in Republican/black relations in the South.

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By Frederick Reese
Thad

The Mississippi Republican Senate primary has been strange from beginning to end. From reports of supporters of state Sen. Chris McDaniel sneaking into the nursing home bedroom of incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife to take photos, to the discovery of McDaniel supporters being locked in a courthouse on primary night that was storing and counting

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Is A Less Partisan America Ready For A Competitive Third Party?

“It is more important that the best voices are heard in the political conversation and not just the most partisan,” one advocate for transparent elections tells MintPress.

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By Frederick Reese
Clinton/Boehner

In overwhelming numbers, Americans no longer identify with the traditional Republican or Democratic ideologies. According to a June 29 Pew Research Center for the People & the Press typology, only 36 percent of the general public identify as being either solidly conservative or solidly liberal, while 54 percent are described by Pew as “less

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Team USA Didn’t Take World Cup, But World Cup Took America

Americans unexpectedly caught soccer fever during this year’s World Cup, representing a desire to unite to celebrate national pride on an international stage — if only briefly.

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By Frederick Reese
Austin Davies

Something weird happened during the United States’ run in this year’s World Cup. In practical terms, the U.S. team -- which was ranked 13th in the world according to FIFA, the international soccer governing body -- performed as expected, dropping out of the round-of-16 with a 2-1 defeat from Belgium. What wasn’t expected, however, was how

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Declassified Docs Show ISIS Is More Than An Insurgency

The Islamic State, the Caliphate, ISIS — no matter it’s title, it’s a well-established organization able to survive the West’s attempts at de-stabilizing it.

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By Frederick Reese

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is the wealthiest militant group in the world, with a war chest of approximately $2 billion. With the Iraqi Parliament postponing its first session due to a lack of quorum, the group’s presence in Iraq has became a threat to the continued operation of Iraq’s central government. Of the 328-seat Parliament, for

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