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NEW YORK, June 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights announced the winners of its
2021 RFK Book and Journalism Awards on Thursday during a virtual ceremony featuring special guest presenters Norah O Donnell, Hoda Kotb, Katie Couric, Don Lemon, Nick Kristof, Sheinelle Jones, Natalie Morales, Rory Kennedy, Soledad O Brien, Craig Melvin, John Harwood, and Shawn Yancy.
Join Kerry Kennedy and an inspiring line-up of special guest presenters as we celebrate the winners of the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Book and Journalism Awards.
This year s
Claudio Saunt. His work is an unflinching look at the forced migration of 80,000 Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and those who profited from the systematic, and violent, expulsion of Indigenous people. As Saunt traces white Americans stolen wealth, and Native Americans resulting poverty through the ages, he forces readers to reckon with difficult truths; most impo
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On the day of a summer 2019 car-wash fundraiser for the R.C. Striders, a junior track team based in St. Louis, almost everyone from the 20-person squad spent more than five hours in the sweltering sun. They’d qualified for the Junior Olympics and needed funds to help get there. Usually, practice at the Normandy High School track was strenuous, not only from the physical exertion but from the ghosts: Mike Brown was once a student there. His killing by police officer Darren Wilson in 2014 ignited more than “400 days of sustained direct action,” as activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham put it the Ferguson Uprising.