Award Profile
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Carnegie-Knight News21
Tags Share The full list of honorees for the 2024 RFK 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 Carnegie-Knight News21 Housed at Arizona State University, in partnership with University of Oregon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Florida International University,…
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Blair LM Kelley
Tags Share The 2024 Book Award winner was “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…
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Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson is chair, president, and CEO of The Allstate Corporation, where he has led the company through the global financial crisis, adaptation to climate change, and post-pandemic inflation. Wilson is a public advocate for business playing a broad role in improving society and actively participates in leadership of both business and community organizations. Through…
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Arely Westley
Tags Share A longtime advocate for immigrant, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ communities, Arely Westley works with numerous organizations in New Orleans to uplift LGBTQ+ youth, stop abuses in ICE detention facilities, and expand access to immigrant support services. Recognized for her tireless efforts to combat injustice, Westley joins a distinguished group of more than 50 defenders…
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award-winning songwriter, actor, director, and producer. He is the creator and original star of Broadway’s Hamilton and In the Heights, and the Academy Award-nominated songwriter of Disney’s Moana and Encanto. Miranda and his family are active supporters of initiatives that increase people of color’s representation…
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John W. Rogers, Jr.
John W. Rogers, Jr. serves as Founder, Chairman, Co-CEO and CIO of Ariel Investments. John’s passion for investing began at age 12 when his father began buying him stocks as Christmas and birthday gifts. His interest in equities grew while in college and over the two-plus years he worked as a stockbroker for William Blair…
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Antonio Neri
Antonio Neri is president and CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) where he is responsible for leading the development and delivery of technology solutions and services that help organizations accelerate business outcomes by unlocking value from their data. Under his leadership, HPE has been consistently recognized as a great place to work and was ranked…
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Peniel E. Joseph
Tags Share The 2023 Book Award winner was “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century” by historian Peniel Joseph. The book offers a powerful interpretation of recent history, arguing that the racial reckoning of 2020 marked the climax of a Third Reconstruction: a new struggle for citizenship and dignity for…
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Elizabeth K. Hinton
Tags Share The 2022 RFK Book Award winners were “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” by Heather McGhee and “America on Fire” by Elizabeth Hinton. “America on Fire” presents a new framework for understanding our nation’s broken criminal legal system, tracing the untold history of police violence…
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Heather McGhee
Tags Share The 2022 RFK Book Award winners were “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together” by Heather McGhee and “America on Fire” by Elizabeth Hinton. McGhee embarks on a deeply personal journey across the country from Maine to Mississippi to California, tallying what we lose when we…
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