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Magazine – Over 1 Million – General Reporting
Remembering ‘Red Summer,’ When White Mobs Massacred Blacks from Tulsa to D.C.
DeNeen Brown
Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
National Geographic
‘It Was a Modern-day Lynching’: Violent Deaths Reflect a Brutal American Legacy
DeNeen Brown
Washington Post, Washington, D.C.
National Geographic
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Business
How Ben & Jerry’s Perfected the Delicate Recipe for Corporate Activism
Jordyn Holman, Thomas Buckley
Bloomberg Businessweek, New York, N.Y.
Companies Try a New Approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Honest Conversations
Theresa Agovino
HR Magazine, SHRM, Alexandria, VA
Wall Street’s Top Ranks Look Nothing Like the Nation They Serve
Max Abelson, Jordyn Holman, William Spada, Daniela Sirtori-Cortina, Siobhan Wagner
Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Commentary/Essay
Black City, White Politics: How the Racial Uprising Changed America’s Poorest Major City
Ernest Owens
Ernest Media Empire, LLC, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Magazine
Michael Harriot, Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
YES! Media, Bainbridge Island, WA
Derrick Clifton on the Intersections of Race, LGBTQ Issues and the 2020 Election Season
Derrick Clifton
them (them.us), New York, N.Y.
Magazine – Under 1 Million – General Reporting
Dr. Milbert O. Brown, Jr.
Oracle Magazine, Decatur, GA
Wesley Lowery
GQ Magazine
Jamon Jordan, Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
YES! Media, Bainbridge, Island, WA
Magazine – Under 1 Million – International
The Biafran Genocide – The Hell I Went Through as a Child
Anthony Ogbo
Texas International Guardian News, Houston, TX
The West African Pilot Inc.
Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
The Fight Against Racial Injustice Is a Caribbean Fight Too
Melissa Noel
ESSENCE
A Prime Minister Tries to Storm-Proof Her Island’s Finances
Ezra Fieser
Bloomberg Markets, New York, N.Y.
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Investigative
Inside a Murder Trial in Krasner-Era Philadelphia
Ernest Owens – Ernest Media Empire, LLC, Philadelphia, PA
The Nation
A Brutal Lynching. An Indifferent Police Force. A 34-Year Wait for Justice
Wesley Lowery
GQ Magazine
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Single Topic Series
Black-owned Small Businesses: How the Disproportionately Affected Built Back Better
(Three articles)
Loren Feldman, Carol Hymowitz, Jordyn Holman, Dimitra Kessenides, Karen Toulon
Bloomberg Businessweek, New York, N.Y.
Buy Black – Article One, Article Two, Article Three
Jordyn Holman, Gerald Porter, Deena Shanker, Karen Toulon
Bloomberg News, New York, N.Y
Staff
Bloomberg Markets, New York, N.Y.
Magazine – Under 1 Million – Specialty
Toward a Cure: Cities Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis
Tamara Holmes, Zenobia Jeffries Warfield
YES! Media, Bainbridge Island, WA
COVID Plus Decades of Pollution are a Nasty Combo for Detroit
Cynthia Koons, Bob Ivry
Bloomberg Businessweek, New York, N.Y.
Black America and the Coronavirus Pandemic
Sherri Williams
American University, Washington, D.C.
The Crisis Magazine
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