Our
Series

Our new series The Unmarked Graveyard, untangles mysteries from America’s largest public cemetery. Each week, we’re bringing you stories of how people ended up on Hart Island, the lives they lived and the people they left behind.

Profiles of ground-breaking, but controversial figures in American media who used the microphone in different ways: one to warn, one to preach, and one to rile. 

In 1996, we gave tape recorders to five teenagers who reported on their own lives. Sixteen years later, we went back to each of them to see what had happened to them.