2021 | The Pulitzer Prizes

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Stephen Engelberg and Aminda Marqués Gonzalez, co-chairs

Michael Paul Williams of the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch

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For penetrating and historically insightful columns that guided Richmond, a former capital of the Confederacy, through the painful and complicated process of dismantling the city's monuments to white supremacy.

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Categories: Commentary

Roy S. Johnson of Alabama Media Group, Birmingham

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For evocative columns on race and remembrance written with style, urgency, and moral clarity.

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Wesley Morris of The New York Times

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For unrelentingly relevant and deeply engaged criticism on the intersection of race and culture in America, written in a singular style, alternately playful and profound.

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Categories: Criticism

Craig Jenkins of New York Magazine

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For writing on a range of popular topics, including social media, music and comedy, contending with the year’s disarray and exploring how culture and conversation can both flourish and break down online.

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Categories: Criticism

Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times

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For a series of critical essays that broke through the silence of the pandemic to recommend an eclectic array of recordings as entertainment and solace essential to the moment, drawing deep connections to seven centuries of classical music.

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Categories: Criticism

Robert Greene of the Los Angeles Times

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For editorials on policing, bail reform, prisons and mental health that clearly and holistically examined the Los Angeles criminal justice system.

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Categories: Editorial Writing

Lee Hockstader of The Washington Post

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For a series of editorials that pushed for accountability in the shooting and killing of an unarmed man by U.S. Park Police three years earlier.

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Alan Wirzbicki and Rachelle G. Cohen of The Boston Globe

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For editorials that addressed a controversial local zoning fight, centering the legacy of restrictive housing laws in America’s ongoing conversation about equity, inclusion and opportunity.

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Categories: Editorial Writing

Pulitzer Prize Board Postpones Announcement of 2021 Awards

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The Pulitzer Prize Board has decided to postpone the 2021 award winners’ announcement. Originally scheduled for Monday, April 19, 2021, the Prizes in Journalism, Books, Drama and Music now will be announced on Friday, June 11, 2021 at 1 p.m.

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