Perseverance leads to Pulitzer Prize for New York Times journalist Share Updated: 12:13 PM PDT Mar 16, 2021
Perseverance leads to Pulitzer Prize for New York Times journalist Share Updated: 12:13 PM PDT Mar 16, 2021
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Show Transcript My name is Nicole Hannah Jones. I m a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine and my American Story is working as a journalist, only wanting to become a journalist because I wanted to write about racism and black folks and 10 years ago nearly being pushed out of the industry because I was told that I was biased and that wanting to write about racism or racial inequality was a sign of my bias and that our readers didn t want to read those types of stories. Um, luckily, I didn t listen to them and eventually wound up at The New York Times, where last year I was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on the same day as my Shiro, Ida B. Wells, both of us for writing the stories about black folks. So that s my Americ
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Only when he began editing
Minari did the writer-director Lee Isaac Chung see exactly how much his cast had done for the story. The film, about a Korean American family starting a farm in 1980s Arkansas, was inspired by his childhood, but Chung told his actors he didn’t want them imitating anyone he knew. So instead, they brought their own interpretations to the characters and made Chung’s tale theirs, too. “It’s easy when you have these actors, and every take is good,” he told me over Zoom last month, chuckling. “You have nothing bad to work with.”
Peoria Riverfront Museum
On this week’s episode of Out and About, Bill Conger joins Jenn Gordon to talk about the reopening of the Peoria Riverfront Museum. Find out about the exciting renovations that have happened during the shutdown, as well as three new exhibits opening on March 6, including
101 Treasure of the Peoria Riverfront Museum,
American Story:
Bronzeville to Harlem, and
American Verses: Terry Adkins, Mark Bradford & Kerry James Marshall. Learn more at The Peoria Riverfront Museum.
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