Independent journalism by Samuel N. Gilbert

featuring reporting on immigration, border communities, international conflict, climate change, and Indigenous foodways. A portfolio of published work from leading global news outlets

Remaking New York City in the wake of climate change

Al Jazeera English
New York City, US - On the evening of October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy reached the inlet between Long Island and New Jersey and funnelled the Atlantic storm surge into
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Inside America’s atomic state

Al Jazeera English
Seventy years ago last August, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay released its 4,000kg load over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the sudden loss of weight jolting the US
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The Zozobra Festival Is a Neo-Pagan Ode to Spanish Colonialism

Vice

Last week, at a park in New Mexico’s capital city of Santa Fe, tens of thousands of people gathered to watch the annual burning of what may be the world’s

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Race in the US: America’s most persecuted?

Al Jazeera English
A day after graduating from high school, Renea Gray left the Inyabito Chapter of the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico and headed west to Las Vegas, Nevada. "It was
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How a Bloody Prison Massacre Became a Tourist Hotspot

The Daily Beast
The tour group looked at the hatchet marks, still visible today on the concrete floor. “These were the inmates that fared the worse,” corrections officer and tour guide Trinidad Torres
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Albuquerque PD: a case study of police brutality

Al Jazeera English
Albuquerque, New Mexico - In January 1972, Rito Canales and Antonio Cordova, members of the Chicano youth organisation known as the Black Berets, were killed in a barrage of gunfire
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Tensions ratchet up in US immigration battle

Al Jazeera English

New York City – Like many children of undocumented immigrants, Lupe Martinez has lived a precarious life.

Lupe’s parents migrated to the United States by way of Oaxaca, Mexico, living

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Debate swirls over budding marijuana business

Al Jazeera English
New York City, United States - Standing in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Frank Mills puffs on a thinly rolled marijuana cigarette, exhaling a long thin stream of smoke towards
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Native Americans rolling the dice on casinos

Al Jazeera English

Flagstaff, United States – On the southwestern corner of the Navajo reservation, Twin Arrows Casino Resort towers over the empty Arizona desert, its lurid neon lights drawing travellers from the

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