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Amanda Zamora

Amanda Zamora was the senior engagement editor at ProPublica.

Amanda Zamora was a senior engagement editor at ProPublica. Previously, she spent more than eight years as a digital producer and editor at The Washington Post, leading the site's election coverage as national digital editor in 2012. She led digital coverage on the metro, foreign and investigative desks before serving as the Post's first social media and engagement editor from 2010 â 2011. Zamora began her journalism career at the Austin American-Statesman as an editorial aide and reporter. In 2009, she helped launch the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, a nonprofit news site based in Washington, D.C. She is also a previous Knight Digital Media Fellow with the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism.

Michigan Charter Schools, Hospice Inc. and Repeat Flood Repairs (MuckReads Weekly)

Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/michigan-charter-schools-hospice-inc.-and-repeat-flood-repairs-muckreads-we#signup">Sign up</a> to get this briefing delivered to your inbox every weekend.

Transcript: Should Public Schools be Free to Pin Down Students?

Missile Defense Fail, Pimp City and Small Plane Crashes (MuckReads Weekly)

Introducing a roundup of some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/missile-defense-fail-pimp-city-and-small-plane-crashes-muckreads-weekly#mc_embed_signup">Sign up</a> to get this briefing delivered to your inbox every weekend beginning June 28.

Do You Know a Child Who’s Been Forcibly Restrained at School?

Segregation Now

Student Perspectives on Race and Education in Tuscaloosa

Teens at two high schools helped ProPublica tell the story of resegregation by documenting their experiences in photos. Their work has launched a conversation about race and education in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and beyond.

Discussion: School Resegregation 60 Years After Brown v. Board

Segregation Now

Video: Saving Central

Meet Principal Clarence Sutton Jr. as he fights to save his students from the effects of resegregation.

Segregation Now

Share Your Six Words on Race and Education in America

Sixty years after the Supreme Court declared an end to “separate but equal” education, many Southern school districts have moved back in time, isolating poor black and Latino students in segregated schools. ProPublica investigates Tuscaloosa’s city schools, which are among the most rapidly resegregating in the country.

Share Your Six Words on Race and Education

Segregation Now

Timeline: From Brown v. Board to Segregation Now