Validated Independent News stories (VINs) report information and perspective that the public has a right and need to know, but to which it has limited access. Before being posted as a VIN, each story undergoes evaluation by student researchers and faculty evaluators to determine that it is important, timely, fact-based, well documented, and under-reported in the corporate media. These VINs are candidates for inclusion among the top 25 stories in Project Censored’s annual book.
[Editor’s note: This Validated Independent News Story was researched and submitted before the March 16, 2021 shootings in Atlanta in which six of those killed—Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Soon…