NEW YORK, May 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert F.
Kennedy Human Rights today announced the winners of its 2024 RFK
Book and Journalism Awards during a virtual ceremony with remarks
by president Kerry Kennedy and
featuring special guest presenters Kimberly
Adams, Michael Beschloss,
Margaret Engel, Annette Gordon-Reed, Van
Jones, Rory Kennedy,
Nicholas Kristof, Arantxa Loizaga,
Craig Melvin, Natalie Morales, Amna
Nawaz, Soledad O'Brien,
Symone Sanders, and John Seigenthaler.
Award winners were honored for their work documenting pressing
social issues and human rights abuses. Winning entries were
selected from roughly 400 global submissions.
"Journalists and authors empower change. Their work is a
rallying cry, drawing attention to the abuses and inequities that
cannot be ignored," said Kerry
Kennedy, president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights.
"The writers, photographers, artists, and producers who tell these
stories are critical to preserving democracy and protecting human
rights. We are honored to celebrate them today."
Among the Journalism Award winners:
- Arizona State University won
the College Journalism Award for its project "America After
Roe." Featuring the work of 25 student journalists, the project
examines how the monumental decision has gone beyond abortion bans
and courthouse battles to more broadly affect health care, culture,
policy, and people. "America After Roe" was also named the Grand
Prize Winner.
- The Marshall Project won this year's Criminal Justice
Award for its three-part series "When Guards Abuse Prisoners,"
which investigates how a correctional department disciplines — or
fails to discipline — its officers.
- Netflix and Reveal from The Center for Investigative
Reporting won the Domestic Television Award for their
piece "Victim/Suspect," which documents a shocking nationwide
pattern - young women tell police they've been sexually assaulted,
but instead of finding justice, they're charged with a crime,
arrested, and imprisoned by the very system they believed would
protect them.
- The Associated Press won the International
Photography Award for its coverage of the war in Gaza, with judges praising the skill, empathy,
and experience of staff photographer Fatima Shbair as she covers
the ongoing humanitarian crisis. "War in Gaza" also received the John Seigenthaler
Courage in Journalism Award.
This year's Book Award winner is "Black Folk: The Roots
of the Black Working Class" by acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley.
Spanning two hundred years, "Black Folk" highlights the lives of
the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal
workers who established the Black working class as a force in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Kelley weaves her
ancestors' story into the history, adding a personal, moving, and
very human narrative.
The annual competition, in place since 1969 for journalism
categories and 1980 for the Book Award, highlights exemplary work
that explores issues of human rights, social justice, and the power
of individual action. It is one of the few awards in its field
determined by peers.
We are grateful to Mort Zuckerman
and the Zuckerman Family Foundation for their support of this
year's Robert F. Kennedy Book and
Journalism Awards ceremony. Special thanks to historian and author
Michael Beschloss, head of the
Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
committee, and Margaret Engel,
director of the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation and chair of
the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards committee, as well as the
committees and many volunteer judges who participated this
year.
The full list of honorees for the 2024 RFK Book and Journalism
Awards can be found below.
High School Journalism
The Hidden Homeless
Naperville Central High School
Nathan Yuan
College Journalism and Grand Prize
America After
Roe
Arizona State University
Carnegie-Knight News21
Nontraditional Media
Alone and Exploited
The New York Times
Hannah Dreier
Domestic Print
Inside the Psychiatric Hospitals Where
Foster Kids Are a "Gold Mine"
Mother Jones
Julia Lurie
Domestic Photo
Black Maternal Mortality
The Washington Post
Jahi Chikwendiu
Domestic Television
Victim/Suspect
Netflix and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
Rachel De Leon, Chris Celements,
Nancy Schwartzman, Julie Goldman, Tracy
Elizabeth Jarrett, Amanda
Pike, Alice Henty,
Inbal Lessner, J. Daniel Torres, Sabrina
Schmidt Gordon
International Print
China: The Superpower of Seafood
The Outlaw Ocean Project
Ian Urbina
International Photo and John Seigenthaler Courage in
Journalism Award
War in Gaza
The Associated Press
Fatima Shbair
International Television
Inside the Iranian
Uprising
Frontline (PBS)
Majed Neisi, Sasha Joelle Achilli,
James Allnutt, Dan Edge, Andrew
Metz, Raney Aronson-Rath
Criminal Justice
When Guards Abuse Prisoners
The Marshall Project
Joseph Neff, Alysia Santo
Radio
Hidden Confessions of the Mormon Church
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
Michael Montgomery, Michael Rezendes, Jason
Dearen, Brett Myers,
Tom Berman
Cartoon
Art by Peter
Kuper
Book
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working
Class
Liveright
Blair LM Kelley
About Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights
Robert F. Kennedy
Human Rights is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that has
worked to realize Robert F.
Kennedy's dream of a more just and peaceful world since
1968. In partnership with local activists, RFK Human Rights
advocates for key human rights issues, championing change makers
and pursuing strategic litigation at home and around the world. And
to ensure change that lasts, we foster a social-good approach to
business and investment and educate millions of students about
human rights and social justice.
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