Life Is Unfair, but a Pandemic Rigs It Doubly Against Low-Income Students
A high school counselor talks about the incredible challenges many of his students are facing due to the pandemic.
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A high school counselor talks about the incredible challenges many of his students are facing due to the pandemic.
Dedicated social workers and public health officials are on the front line of the battle to save babies.
Two families called 911 to get help for their sons. They didn’t know that they’d be thrusting them into a complex and often brutal system.
The 30-minute one-act play features a black 16-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer.
The pandemic is disproportionately affecting the Latinx community — including survivors of assault.
Members of Central India’s Gond tribe find themselves caught in a decades-long conflict between armed Maoists and the police.
Here's a look inside the "Afro-Latinx Revolution."
Finally, a Black reporter was chosen for a clinical trial, which meant even more waiting.
Observers have long warned of rising forced labor in Xinjiang. Satellite images show factories built just steps away from cell blocks.
Farmers in Florida are fighting two invisible beasts: the virus and severe weather.
Aid organizations fear that Israel is about to deport thousands of asylum-seekers to Sudan now that the two countries have made peace.
Still the youngest leader on the continent at age 44, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has shown a penchant for shaking up the status quo.
"The Battle for One" shows a Rust Belt city’s fight to save babies' lives.
This project is a feature on the Gond tribe from Bastar, an insurgency-hit region in Central India.
Using both theater and journalism, this reporting covers the point of view of a Black teen who was shot by a white police officer.
Out of fear, hope, or desperation, millions of women around the world migrate each year in search of new lives.
COVID-19 is testing the enduring resilience of Indigenous peoples. Tribal nations in the United States face unique challenges in accessing and distributing a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine.
A Nobel Peace Prize winner, a refugee crisis, and the future of the Horn of Africa.
Navigating race relations in the U.S. is a challenging task, particularly for Black migrants and refugees. This project explores how Black migrants in Maine confront racism following their arrival.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are at war, and the consequences—humanitarian above all, but also political and international—are going to be profound.
Amid Puerto Rico's political crisis, Black communities fight for justice against racism, systemic discrimination, police oppression, and economic disparities.
Medill alum Elena Bruess documents the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on a predominantly Latinx community on the Southwest side of Chicago through the lens of a community health center.
As much of the world is paralyzed by the coronavirus, an active war has broken out with few people watching and fewer actors to reign it in.
The AP takes a road trip across the United States to talk to Americans as a nation disrupted grapples with COVID-19, an economic meltdown, protests for racial justice, and a turbulent election.
Nate Hegyi reports on American Prairie Reserve, a nonprofit building a privately funded wildlife preserve the size of Connecticut in the Great Plains of Montana.
Natasha S. Alford tells the story of her reporting project on Afro-LatinX identity and social issues in Puerto Rico.
In Juarez, a cobbled-together community of migrants is trapped by U.S. policies in an immigration purgatory. Associated Press reporters Tim Sullivan and Cedar Attanasio spent a week in their world.
Multimedia journalist Melissa Bunni Elian talks about her experience reporting on AFROPUNK as a cultural touchpoint for black identity and the African diaspora.
Photographer Emin Özmen documents the daily lives of Talysh women in Azerbaijan and their complex history of assimilation.
Grantee Chien-Chi Chang investigates the "quiet genocide" against the Lumad people in the Philippines.
Journalists Noah Fowler and Jonathan Kaiman discuss their three-part series on China's growing role in Africa.
Joshua Kucera traveled along the conventional border between Europe and Asia, from Istanbul's Bosphorus to the Russian Arctic—reporting on the people who live between East and West.
China's Muslim minorities make up only two percent of the population, but comprise 20 million people. How do they relate to Islam, the state, the majority Han Chinese and one another?
Christopher de Bellaigue discusses his recent travels to Turkey to shed light on the degeneration of democracy not only in that country, but more widely.
Scott Anderson discusses how he chronicles the lives of six people to tell the story of the collapse of the Middle East. "We're all living with the fall-out of what has happened in this region."
Tina Rosenberg discusses how a measured dose of wine can become the first step towards stability for alcoholics at a shelter for the homeless in Ottawa, Canada.
After reporting in an isolated community, Victoria Mckenzie says it meant a lot to have her effort recognized. Entries are being accepted for the 2021 Breakthrough award.
The event was for Black and Latino Chicagoans, who have been hit hardest by the pandemic.
Grantee Victoria Mckenzie discusses the toll of reporting on emotionally fraught issues, and what winning the inaugural Pulitzer Center award meant to her.
The brutal fighting in the South Caucasus region received scant media attention. Simon Ostrovsky discusses his Pulitzer Center-supported reporting on the conflict.
Over 2,200 students will engage with the material, which is based on a New York Times Magazine initiative that interrogates the legacy of slavery in the United States.
In this webinar, playwright, actress, and youth advocate Liza Jessie Peterson presents and discusses her theatrical work.
New portal showcases reporting about Indigenous communities from around the world
The Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant is a series of reporting grants for freelance photojournalists, in partnership with Diversify Photo.
"Caste in America" wins 2020 Gabriel Award from the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.
The Pulitzer Center and the University of Chicago welcome award-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones for a conversation on The 1619 Project.
The Arnold Newman Prize For New Directions in Photographic Portraiture is awarded yearly to a photographer whose work breaks ground in photographic portraiture.
The Pulitzer Center is partnering with The New York Times Magazine's landmark "1619 Project" on curriculum and outreach.
Students analyze news stories on the COVID-19 pandemic and practice photojournalism skills to compose photo stories on the impacts of the pandemic and elections in their communities.
Students reflect on stories they have seen about migration, and then analyze text and photography from eight short articles about women from different parts of the world who were forced to migrate.
Students will engage with infographics to analyze and communicate global migration trends, and specifically visualize the experience of women who are migrating.
A lesson plan to guide analysis of a video introduction to Nikole Hannah-Jones and The 1619 Project.
In this lesson, students will analyze how photojournalists tell under-reported stories using photography and apply tips for doing so themselves from Pulitzer Center-supported journalists.
Students explore news articles and instructional videos to evaluate how they can find and analyze under-reported stories in the news, and in their own communities
In this lesson, students will analyze data showing that Black and brown people are over-represented in COVID-19 mortality statistics, investigate structural causes, and search for solutions.
Students analyze reporting about Alaska Native women in Nome who are fighting to end impunity for sexual assault, and dive deeper into women's rights advocacy around the world.
Students explore Afropunk as a global social catalyst and consider art and fashion's relationship to identity, culture, and social movements.
Indigenous rights and visual literacy take center stage in these activity ideas and classroom resources, using reporting from six countries by Magnum photographers.
Through these articles, students will explore diverse cultures and connect to pressing issues facing Spanish-speaking communities.
Students analyze why religions have internal conflicts and discuss whether these conflicts are truly religious in nature.