TheUncovery.org is a racial injustice calculator that empowers visitors to discover and share facts from the ACLU report: The War on Marijuana in Black and White. I collaborated with Forest Young, Pete Cenedella, Ranger Studio and the ACLU, to draw attention to the billions wasted on funding racially disproportionate arrests for marijuana possession. We designed a powerful storytelling device: the black redacted bar. By clicking on each redacted line, visitors could “uncover” state-specific facts about marijuana arrests, including the costs for enforcing such laws. Each statement and fact is sharable across social media. We also connected the addresses of house representatives so that visitors could directly contact their elected officials about these issues. The site was a Webby Award Honoree for Best Political Website.
