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Q3 Brings Growth and Extraordinary Reporting

The third quarter of 2020 saw the Pulitzer Center’s biggest expansion of staff in our history, bringing our total number of team members to 36. In addition, a major investment in COVID-19 coverage resulted in over 200 stories from local, national, and global news organizations, and our K-12 team has redoubled its support for classrooms around the United States in the midst of a challenging time for students. "We are grateful as ever to the individuals and foundations who have sustained our work over nearly 15 years," Executive Director Jon Sawyer wrote in the report's introduction. 
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Revisiting America’s ‘Sundown Towns’ in 2020

The Associated Press’ ongoing Pulitzer Center-supported “AP Road Trip” continues this week with a look at Vienna, Illinois, which once enforced racist “sundown” rules for Black people, allowing access to the town during the day, but subjecting them to arrest and violence after dark. Grantees Noreen Nasir, Tim Sullivan, and Wong Maye-E found many white residents are still in denial of Vienna’s past—and present—while the town’s few Black residents consider leaving. “It’s not by law” that Black people remain a tiny population in many towns, said one local historian. “It’s by tradition.”
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Behind the Story: Poverty and the Pandemic in Mississippi

As the poorest state in the United States, Mississippi has struggled to cope with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has struck many residents, including the state’s Indigenous Choctaw population, especially hard. Pulitzer Center Intern Abigail Gipson recently spoke with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting’s Jerry Mitchell about his Pulitzer Center-supported investigation into the state’s handling of the crisis. “When you don't invest in health care in Mississippi, in these impoverished places, what happens?” said Mitchell. “Well now we're seeing the consequences of that. And so we wanted to document that.”
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