Name: Wells, Hannah-Jones awarded Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for journalism
Uploaded: Sat May 09 2020 19:18:19 GMT+0000 (UTC)
Duration: 3 min 46 s
Description: Ida B. Wells and Nikole Hannah-Jones were just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 2020. Both African-America women, Wells received her award posthumously for her coverage of lynching in America during during the late 1800s, while Jones was awarded for her 1619 Project about the legacy of slavery. Michelle Duster, Well’s great-granddaughter, and Jones join Joy Reid to discuss.

May 9, 202003:46

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