The 2020 Pulitzer winners were announced Monday. Among the recipients, Nikole Hannah-Jones of The New York Times for her essay as part of the 1619 Project, which reexamines the legacy of slavery. Staff of The Baltimore Sun won for local reporting, and the Anchorage Daily News was awarded the public service prize for its series with ProPublica about law enforcement and sexual crimes in Alaska. Brian Rosenthal won for his New York Times exposé of New York’s taxi industry crisis and the predatory lending that led to it. Yale professor Greg Grandin won the Pulitzer for nonfiction for his book “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.” The book “Solitary” by Albert Woodfox, with Leslie George, was a finalist in the same category of “general nonfiction.” “Solitary” is a memoir by Woodfox, who served the longest time in solitary confinement of any prisoner in the United States. “Ear Hustle,” a podcast out of San Quentin State Prison, was a finalist for the first Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting. And Ida B. Wells received a posthumous special citation for “her outstanding and courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching.”

You can see our interviews with many of the winners and finalists of this year’s Pulitzer Prize, including Greg Grandin, Albert Woodfox and Brian Rosenthal, at democracynow.org.