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On November 7, 1837, an abolitionist named Elijah Parish Lovejoy was killed by a pro-slavery mob in Alton, Illinois.

This year's award recipients are Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka, who covered the Russian siege of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol earlier this year and countered Russian claims that civilians were not being targeted.

This year's award recipients are Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka, who covered the Russian siege of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol earlier this year and countered Russian claims that civilians were not being targeted.

Published April 22, 2021 at 1:50 PM CDT Listen • 25:19 / Elijah Lovejoy is buried in Alton, Ill., the Mississippi River city where he was slain by a pro-slavery mob in 1837. In 1837, Elijah Lovejoy was killed by members of an angry, pro-slavery mob. They broke into the warehouse in Alton, Ill., where Lovejoy had hidden the printing press he used to publish his Abolitionist newspaper, the Alton Observer. Lovejoy, who was on site to defend his property, was shot fiv...

In January 1838, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered an address in Springfield, Ill., condemning a series of vigilante attacks that had recently taken place across the young republic. Just weeks before, Elijah Parish Lovejoy, ardent abolitionist and editor of the St. Louis Observer, was shot to death outside his warehouse in Alton, Ill., by a pro-slavery mob.   “Whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather in bands of hundreds and thousands,” Lincoln said, “a...