Book & Journalism Award
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RFKHR Book Club Relives the Decade That Changed Everything with ‘The Movement’: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America
Tags Share On November 14th, RFKHR hosted our most recent book club featuring Clara Bingham, author of The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement takes the audience through a decade of public and private protest, organizing and agitating that expanded the potential…
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RFKHR Book Club Explores The Untold Story of the Ku Klux Klan and the Brave Woman Who Challenged Them
Tags Share On August 27, our latest Book Club conversation featured this year’s Robert F. Kennedy Book and Journalism Award’s Honorable Mention, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, by Timothy Egan. A Fever in the Heartland is a historical thriller by…
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Blair LM Kelley traces the history of the Black working class
Tags Share On Tuesday, July 23rd, RFK Human Rights hosted its July Book Club featuring the recipient of the 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award, Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair LM Kelley and moderated by historian and author Ted Widmer. This work spans two hundred years―from one…
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Shining A Light in the Dark: The 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book and Journalism Awards
Tags Share Journalists and authors, such as those honored in the 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book and Journalism Awards, “empower change. Their work is a rallying cry, drawing attention to abuses and inequities that cannot be ignored,” emphasized Kerry Kennedy in her opening remarks of this year’s award ceremony, moderated by eminent journalists…
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RFKHR Book Club Hosts Dr. Peniel Joseph, Author of “The Third Reconstruction”
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ virtual Book Club on July 18 focused on stories and storytelling – the stories that shape our understanding of the past and our hope for the future. “The most powerful aspect of any society is storytelling,” said Dr. Peniel Joseph, historian, professor, and the recipient of RFKHR’s 2023…
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RFKHR Book Club spotlights Elizabeth Hinton’s ‘America on Fire’
Tags Share Yale professor of Law Elizabeth Hinton has advocated for structural transformation as a more effective solution to violent crimes and improving America’s race-relations. “More police and more prisons doesn’t work to keep people safer,” Hinton said on Friday Sept. 29 while discussing her book, America on Fire at a live virtual event organized…
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Cost of racism dominates Robert F. Kennedy Annual Book and Journalism Awards
Tags Share Two years after America’s great racial reckoning, the societal cost of racism and the decline of democracy continued to dominate the themes of winning entries of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights’ annual Book and Journalism Awards. “We are living in a time that would in many ways make Robert F. Kennedy shudder,” emcee…
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UIC Alumni Win 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award
Tags Share “Brody Ford, a 2020 University of Illinois Chicago graduate in political science and communication, and Nicole Sroka, a 2021 UIC graduate in criminology, law and justice and communication, were among a team of 35 student-journalists from Arizona State University’s Carnegie-Knight News21 program to win the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. The award-winning…
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Documentary on Northshore Recovery School Wins RFK Journalism Award
Tags Share The MTV documentary that chronicled a year in the life of Northshore Recovery High School students and their struggles with addiction has won a 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. The four-part series, “16 and Recovering,” was directed and executive produced by Steve Liss, a filmmaker who lives in Beverly, with help from…
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“Canary: The Washington Post Investigates” Wins RFK Journalism Award
Tags Share Amy Brittain, Reena Flores, and Bishop Sand of the Washington Post have been recognized with a 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in the radio division for their work on the seven-part podcast, “Canary: The Washington Post Investigates.” Canary follows Brittain’s reporting journey documenting failures in the D.C. court system’s handling of a…
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AP Wins Two RFK Journalism Awards
Tags Share An investigation exposing widespread abuse in the palm oil industry and searing photos of Ethiopians fleeing war earned The Associated Press two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards on Thursday. AP investigative reporters Margie Mason and Robin McDowell won the RFK Journalism Award for International Print for a series of stories that uncovered the…
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USA TODAY Network South Wins RFK Journalism Award for ‘Confederate Reckoning’
Tags Share USA TODAY Network newsrooms across the South region won a prestigious journalism award Thursday honoring an ongoing project that explores the long shadow of racism in the American South. “The Confederate Reckoning,” a multimedia series powered by dozens of journalists working across five states, received the grand prize from the 2021 Robert F.…
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