Social Justice and Equality

With a measured hand, a columnist adds historical perspective to hypocrisy of the first order.

A Chicago columnist sees the flaws in the Reagan-era gloss on civil rights.

In the creator of 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin,' a critic and a biographer both discover a 19th century author to admire.

Buford Boone of The Tuscaloosa News takes a strong stand on the University of Alabama's admission of its first black student, Autherine Lucy. His critics are not shy about responding to him.

Writers argue that striking the right balance is the key to better lives for people with mental illnesses.

In his crusade against lynching, Louis Isaac Jaffe wasn’t satisfied with a victory in his own state.

1947 Pulitzer winner Edward Folliard chronicled an American pro-Nazi group, the Columbians, in Atlanta. Following the events in Charlottesville, VA., this is a reminder of the role of the press in covering similar events of 71 years ago.

New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin was a champion of his city and its citizens — including on young man with AIDS, whose story is told in this 1985 prize-winning piece. In honor of Pride Month, revisit his story.

The former librarian of the Poynter Institute, a Pulitzer centennial partner, has created a vast online archive of Pulitzer Prize-winning work on Social Justice and Equality.

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man became a classic of American literature. While many critics recognized its quality when it came out in 1952, a Pulitzer Fiction juror went out of his way to trash the book.