Social Justice and Equality

As the United States observes Native American Heritage Month, read the classic novel's jury report.

In this week's edition of USA Today's "The Backstory," the paper's Editor-in-Chief and Pulitzer Prize Board member Nicole Carroll spoke to Pulitzer winner David Blight about the life of Anna Murray Douglass, social reformer Frederick Douglass' first wife.

The 1948 Biography winner and protege of fellow Pulitzer winner Allan Nevins scaled the glass ceiling of postwar academia — but never wrote history again.

As part of our ongoing efforts to digitize our archive, read an excerpt from the venerable journalist's Prize-winning memoir of life in apartheid-era South Africa.

As colleagues and friends pay tribute to the multifaceted legend, Newsday has republished a selection of his Pulitzer-winning work.

Trailblazing female columnists Mary McGrory and Meg Greenfield added fresh viewpoints to the Washington press corps — and earned Pulitzers in the process.

As renegade Governor Orval Faubus attempted to block the court-ordered integration of Little Rock's schools, the Arkansas Gazette executive editor declared that "the mobs in front of Central High School have at no time been in any sense representative of the people of Arkansas."

For Black History Month, look back at the work of Pulitzer-winning African-American photojournalists, and prize-winning images documenting pivotal moments in race relations.

Pulitzer winner Leonard Pitts recalls the legacy of a white Alabama woman, who transcended her past as a daughter of segregation to speak with courage on wrongs that were 'a product of her times.'

Despite a clear-eyed critique of affirmative action, a columnist is suspicious of an effort to end it.