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Members of the Mississippi National Guard prepare to distribute water to Jackson residents at the Mississippi Trade Mart in Jackson, Miss., Thursday, September 1, 2022.
September 14, 2022
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2022 Hillman Prize Winners
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2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Farrar, Straus and Giroux -
2022 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Little, Brown and Company -
2022 Hillman Prize for Broadcast Journalism
Politically Charged
ABC15 Arizona -
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2022 Hillman Prize for Newspaper Journalism
“Behind the Blue Wall”
USA TODAY -
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2022 Sol Stetin Award for Labor HistoryDeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University
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The winners of the 2022 U.S Hillman Prizes and the Sol Stetin Award for Labor History were announced on April 19th and celebrated on May 3. See event photos and videos.
The 2022 Canadian Hillman Prize honourees were announced on March 15. See event photos and videos.
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Hillman judge Katrina vanden Heuvel on the urgent necesssity of public-interest journalism in The Washington Post