DIGITAL
Digital Media: Business
Why Black-Owned Businesses are Struggling to Stay Afloat
Dymond Green, Jacqui Frank
CNBC-Englewood, Cliffs, NJ
Prediction: Bias
Staffs of The Markup and Gizmodo
New York, NY
Denied
Emmanuel Martinez, Lauren Kirchner, Malena Carollo
The Markup
Entrepreneurship Boomed in These Predominantly Black Neighborhoods During Pandemic
Khristopher J. Brooks
CBS MoneyWatch
For Black Single Mothers, COVID-19 Economic Challenges Can Be Magnified
Gracyn Doctor
WFAE-Charlotte, NC
Digital Media: Commentary/Weblog
A School Torn Down and a Weekend of Violence — It’s All Connected
Evan F. Moore
Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL
Collection of Columns by Mary C. Curtis
Mary C. Curtis
Roll Call, Washington, DC
African Development Bank Group Commentary by Bank President Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina, Vice President Dr. Beth Dunford and Acting Vice President Wambui Gichuri
Alphonso Van Marsh
Staff of The African Development Bank Group
Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
Digital Media: Interactive: Feature
Built to Keep Black from White
Erin Einhorn, Olivia Lewis, Jiachuan Wu, Matthew Kwiecinski, Trymaine Lee
NBC News & BridgeDetroit
Un(re)solved
Tamara Shogaolu, Michelle Mizner, Collyn Stephens, Dan Nolan, Anthony DeLorenzo, FRONTLINE Staff
FRONTLINE (PBS) and Ado Ato Pictures
CBC Vancouver – Who is Mifflin Gibbs?
Ashley Moliere, Tamara Baluja, Andrew McManus, Christian Amundson, Ben Nelms, Mary Vallis, John Fraser, Tamika Forrester
CBC News
Digital Media: Interactive: News
Challenges to Critical Race Theory Ban
The Special Report with Areva Martin
A Crisis Within a Crisis
Nicquel Terry Ellis, Adrienne Broaddus
CNN, New York, NY
Sacrifice Zones: Mapping Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution
ProPublica – New York, NY
In Collaboration with The Texas Tribune (TX) and Mountain State Spotlight (WV)
Digital Media: Online Project: Feature
Aftershocks
Lakeidra Chavis, Daniel Nass
The Trace in Partnership with Block Club Chicago, The Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago, IL and La Raza Chicago
Never Been Told: The Lost History of America’s People of Color
Nichelle Smith
USA TODAY Network
ABC News GMA Digital – Who is Making Black History in 2021: The GMA Inspiration List
ABC News; Staff of GMA Digital
Folkus: Photographer Russell Frederick Uses His Camera to Change the Black American Narrative
Andscape Staff
ESPN Creative Studio / Visual Storytelling, Bristol, CT
ESPN’s Andscape, Washington, DC
Seven Days of 1961: Americans Stood Up to Racism in 1961 and Changed History. This is Their Fight, in Their Words
Deborah Berry, Wenei Philimon, Jasper Colt, Marc Ramirez, Melissa Brown
USA Today/ USA Today Network
Washington, DC
Digital Media: Online Project: News
Federal Payments to Black Kansas Farmers Come Too Late for Generations Who Faced Discrimination
David Condos
Kansas News Service & KCUR 89.3, Kansas City, MO
High Plains Public Radio, Garden City, KS
What the Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed
The New York Times Staff
The New York Times, New York, NY
History Refocused
Margaret Dawson, Cassie Spodak, Channon Hodge
CNN, New York, NY
Digital Media: Online Project: Single Story: Feature
ABC News GMA Digital: The Story of Black Hair
ABC News
ABC News Digital Voices: Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams
ABC News
Black Girls are Often Treated Like Adults During Police Encounters, Experts Say
Nicquel Terry Ellis
CNN, New York, NY
Digital Media: Online Project: Single Story: News
First Up for COVID Vaccine: 75 and Older. The Average Black Person in Shelby County Doesn’t Live That Long.
Wendi C Thomas, Hannah Grabenstein
MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, Memphis, TN
ABC News Digital – Green New Future: Mapping Racism
Janet Weinstein, JP Keenan, Shannon Sanders
ABC News, New York, NY
From Defeated to Driven
Jamal Bransford, Jiquanda Johnson
Brown Impact Media Group, Flint, MI
Black Colleges Were Denied State Funding for Decades. Now They’re Fighting Back.
Khristopher J. Brooks
CBS MoneyWatch, New York, NY
Kidney Experts Say It’s Time to Remove Race from Medical Algorithms. Doing So is Complicated.
Rae Ellen Bichell, Cara Anthony
Kaiser Health News – Washington, DC
Digital Media: Online Project: Sports
Race to Touchdown
Jason Warick
CBC News Saskatoon
“I Can’t Believe That You Chose Me”
Jerry E. Bembry
ESPN’s Andscape, Washington, DC
Sylvio Cator Used the Olympics to Seek Justice Decades Before Tommie Smith and John Carlos
ESPN’s Andscape, Washington, DC
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