For the month of April 2012, the Maynard Institute celebrates 30 exemplary journalists of color who have won the Pulitzer Prize –– the industry's most coveted and prestigious award.
The contributions that these journalists have made to the field through their courageous and diverse reporting is worthy of celebration and study. The women and men included are beat reporters, investigative journalists, opinion columnists and staff photographers. They remind us of the powerful impact that people of color continue to have in journalism as it's practiced at home and abroad.
This is by no means a definitive or exhaustive listing. It’s a starting point for learning, comment and discussion, in the lead up to the announcement of this year's Pulitzer Prize winners. Be heard. Tell us what you think and what we can learn!
April 7, 2012
John J. Kim has been a staff photographer for the Chicago Sun-Times since February 2004. Previously, Kim worked for five years for the Oakland Tribune and its sister publications in the San Francisco Bay area. Kim was born in Busan, Korea, which he...
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April 8, 2012
Charlie LeDuff is a Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist, writer, and media personality who left The Detroit News in October 2010 after two years and joined Detroit Fox affiliate WJBK Ch. 2 to do on-air journalism.LeDuff is best known for his...
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April 9, 2012
Liz Balmaseda, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, has a gift for breathing human complexity into issues that many see only in black and white. A writer for The Palm Beach Post and former columnist for The Miami Herald, she now ventures into...
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April 10, 2012
Martha Mendoza won the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her AP investigative reporting on flaws in the federal government's wild horses program and as part of a team that examined illegal child labor nationwide. Born in Los Angeles, she is a journalism...
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April 11, 2012
Moneta J. Sleet, Jr. won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for his photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s widow, Coretta Scott King, at Dr. King's funeral. Sleet is the first African American man to win the Pulitzer, and the first...
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April 12, 2012
Pulitzer prize winning newspaper columnist Acel Moore was born on October 5, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Settlement Music School from 1954 to 1958. Moore served in the United States Army until 1962 and attended the Charles Morris...
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April 13, 2012
Ozier Muhammad is a photojournalist who has been on the staff of The New York Times since 1992. He has also worked for Ebony Magazine, The Charlotte Observer, and Newsday. He earned a B.A. in 1972 in photography from Columbia College Chicago. ...
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April 14, 2012
Mireya Navarro is an environmental writer for the New York Times in New York. Before that assignment, she was the West Coast style correspondent for the New York Times, based in Los Angeles, covering lifestyle trends and entertainment.She started...
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April 15, 2012
Sonia Nazario has written about social issues for more than two decades, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She holds the distinctions of winning the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, and of being the youngest...
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April 16, 2012
Mirta Ojito is a Marielito and a newspaper reporter. She is also the author of Finding Mañana, a memoir of the Mariel boatlift.Ojito was born in Havana, Cuba and lived there before emigrating to Miami in 1980 when she was 16 years old1. She was most...
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