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By Savannah Powell 12th grade, Herriman High School, UT With lines from “‘Look After My Babies’: in Ethiopia, a Tigray Families Quest” by Cara Anna and Nariman El-Mofty When blood of Tigrayan red became a crime, We learned to paint our faces Our children are re-taught to introduce themselves

By Kavana Anklekar 12th grade, The Orbis School, India With lines from “‘Look After My Babies': In Ethiopia, A TigrayFamily's Quest” by Cara Anna and Nariman El-Mofty, a Pulitzer Center reporting project In Ethiopia, the cradle of humanity, Abraha gently caresses his wife’s pregnant belly. “Tell me

By Shirzad Mustafa 11th grade, Westfield High School, NJ With lines from “Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a Colonial Curriculum” by Jennifer Ann Thomas, a Pulitzer Center reporting project You would have us vanish, yet we are here, to prove that we exist incarnation of ancestral ways etched

By Zina Parker 8th grade, North Branch School, VA With lines from "Ballet and Bullets: Dancing out of the Favela" by Frederick Bernas and Rayan Hindi, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Bullets in the atmosphere, cutting short a flourishing career. Without letting her head drop, she continues on

By Emma Karn 12th grade, Sacred Heart Academy, PA 2nd place contest winner With lines from “‘Buzz of a Mosquito...But With the Sound of Grief’: The Lives of India’s Women Prisoners” by Jahnavi Sen, a Pulitzer Center reporting project A callous optimization problem: to fit 45 women in a room so small

By Mary Roche 11th grade, Eastchester High School, NY With lines from "The Farmer Trying to Save Italy’s Ancient Olive Trees" by Agostino Petroni, a Pulitzer Center reporting project Step into the ghost forest. The unearthly woodland is not haunted, Just dead. How do you kill the unkillable? The

By Emma Lee 9th grade, Stanton College Preparatory School, FL With lines from “Finding Moments of Grace and Gold in the Midst of a Pandemic” by Naomi Marcus, a Pulitzer Center reporting project i. a lukewarm berry engorged by a sticky web of dew and tears unfurling with the sour decay of reality

By Jacklyn Vandermel 10th grade, Northern Valley Regional High School, NJ 1st place contest winner With lines from “The Victims and Those Left Behind” by Mary F. Calvert, a Pulitzer Center reporting project claim 28 uranium mine, february 2020 bits of rheum like uranium glass form around the navajo

By Ares Bandebo-Cambra 3rd grade, Claire Lilienthal Elementary School, CA With lines from “Cielo’s Story #2: Fighting Loneliness” by Cielo Spini, a Pulitzer Center reporting project So long ago, I don’t remember when friends moved away to open schools and yards. My wings were clipped by zoom calls

The second quarter of 2021 was another period of extraordinary, surprising growth for the Pulitzer Center. Extraordinary given the many different ways we’ve grown. Surprising in that all this activity was taking place—and thriving—under the continued challenges of the pandemic. The 13 full-time

The Pulitzer Center is joining Indigenous Photograph for an open photocall to solicit work from Indigenous photojournalists documenting their experiences with climate change. Apply Now Applications have now closed. Thank you for your interest. The Pulitzer Center is joining Indigenous Photograph for

SECTIONS About the Conference Speakers Day One Day Two Full Schedule Apply for The 1619 Project Education Network https://youtu.be/EPrBz72pi7Y The Pulitzer Center was pleased to host the inaugural 1619 Education Conference on February 19 and 20, 2022. This virtual event, free and open to the public

The Pulitzer Center's Behind the Story series serves as a valuable resource about our grantees and their stories, offering insights into why these underreported topics are important and how the journalists reported them. 'Behind the Story' Videos View All Q&As with Pulitzer Center Grantees Pulitzer

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The Pulitzer Center is committed to building global awareness through education. We work with elementary schools, high schools, and universities to bring pressing international issues, and the journalists who cover them, into the classroom. K-12 Programs and Resources Want to inspire your students

The world is full of stories, both far afield and in your own backyard. What stories tend to go under-reported, and how can we seek them out? What tools does a journalist use to find and tell stories that engage and inform audiences, while uplifting issues that don't often make headlines? This

We will have more information on 1619 Project partnerships starting on February 1, 2021. In the meantime, please contact us with an questions at [email protected].