Grantees Win Pulitzer Prizes for Reports on China Prison Camps, Migrants’ Dangerous Trek. A Pulitzer Center-supported project and story were awarded Pulitzer Prizes in International Reporting and Feature Writing.
Grantees Megha Rajagopalan, Alison Killing, and Christo Buschek won a Pulitzer Prize on June 11, 2021, in the International Reporting category for BuzzFeed’s Built to Last. Built to Last is a series of articles reporting on China’s secretly built prison and internment camps for the mass detention of Muslims. The extensive reporting identified more than 260 structures built since 2017. The buildings established a sprawling system to detain and incarcerate hundreds of thousands of Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities.
Grantee Nadja Drost won a Pulitzer Prize in the Feature Writing category for her California Sunday Magazine story “When Can We Really Rest?”, a courageous documentation of a group’s journey through the Darien Gap, one of the most dangerous mi
The Lasting Effects of Agent Orange on Laos. Join the Pulitzer Center on Thursday, June 10, 2021, at 2pm EDT for a conversation with journalist George Black and War Legacies Project founder Susan Hammond centered around Black’s Pulitzer Center-supported project, Agent Orange in Laos.
Black’s reporting for The New York Times Magazine reveals the long-ignored legacy of Agent Orange in the country of Laos, which borders Vietnam. The United States sprayed the herbicide on both sides of the border during the Vietnam War but has yet to acknowledge the Lao victims or the consequences endured by generations of ethnic minorities in the country.
Hammond, the daughter of a U.S. Vietnam veteran, became involved in addressing the long-term impacts of war and fostering understanding between the U.S. and Southeast Asia during her time at the Fund for Reconciliation and Development. In 2008, Hammond founded the War Legacies Project.
Black and Hammond will speak to the current situation in Laos
Maryland residents are invited to join the Maryland Film Fest on
Sunday, May 23, at 8:55pm EDT for a live Q&A session about state surveillance featuring Pulitzer Center grantee
All Light, Everywhere, a film that zooms in on Axon, the primary manufacturer of police body cameras in the United States.
Simpson’s Pulitzer Center-supported project,
Ticket holders will be able to view
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Omar: Revealing the Journey. Journalists from The Post and Courier will discuss their recent Pulitzer Center-supported reporting in Senegal at a fundraiser event on Tuesday, May 25, at 5:30pm EDT at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina.
In an upcoming project, The Post and Courier delves into the story of Omar Ibn Said, a Muslim scholar from Senegal who, at 37, was captured and put aboard a slave ship to Charleston in 1807.
Post and Courier managing editor Autumn Phillips, projects reporter Jennifer Berry Hawes, and photojournalist Gavin McIntyre will share experiences from their journey in a panel discussion. There will be a gallery showcasing McIntyre’s photographs from Senegal.
This event was developed in connection with Spoleto Festival USA's 2022 world premiere of the opera Omar, which was composed by MacArthur Fellow and Grammy Award-winner Rhiannon Giddens and is based on the life and autobiography of Omar Ibn Said.
Guests will preview Spoleto’s Omar with
Thursday,
May 27, at
8:30pm EDT. The 30-minute live community discussion will take a deeper dive into the startling statistics and racial disparities outlined in the Pulitzer Center-supported documentary
The Battle for One, which will be aired on WGTE directly preceding the town hall.
The town hall will feature a panel of experts, including Dr.
D Angela Pitts, maternal-fetal medicine OB-GYN;
Christina Rodriguez, executive director of Mom s House Toledo; and
Eric J. Zgodzinski, health commissioner at the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department. The discussion will be moderated by journalist
Bill Harris.
The event aims to present an open conversation about the correlation between race and infant mortality and the steps that can be taken to help African American babies born in Lucas County reach their first birthday.