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Brent Staples of The Times’s editorial board has won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. His writing sought to show that the devaluation of black lives that led to slavery still haunts the United States. Here is a selection of @BrentNYT's editorials. nyti.ms/2UJjGh2
News organizations — including The New York Times — shoulder much of the blame for the moral panic that cast mothers with crack addictions as irretrievably depraved and the worst enemies of their children, @BrentNYT wrote last year nyti.ms/2Izwpv6
A recently unearthed burial site in Texas is a reminder of blood-drenched history, Brent Staples wrote in October. When slavery ended, convicts were used as replacement for slave labor in the South, suffering and dying in horrific conditions. nyti.ms/2Pc94AU
The 19th Amendment granted white, middle-class women their voting rights — but left black women disenfranchised in the South, @BrentNYT wrote in July nyti.ms/2IBk49R
The racist ape characterization — which is especially problematic in the criminal justice system — has maintained a grip on the American imagination, Brent Staples wrote after “Roseanne” was canceled nyti.ms/2KG1OyZ
Last year, the Montgomery Advertiser printed an editorial apologizing for lynching coverage that dehumanized black victims. @BrentNYT wrote about the role the white Southern press played in the racial terrorism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. nyti.ms/2Gh19hW
After the release of “Black Panther,” Brent Staples wrote about how the wildly successful film had expanded the ranks of Afrofuturist creators in dramatic fashion nyti.ms/2V1ep3B
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a new museum in Montgomery, represents America’s first major effort to confront the vast scope of the racial-terror lynchings that ravaged the African-American community in the South, @BrentNYT wrote last April nyti.ms/2GeK8os
In July, Brent Staples wrote about a new exhibit at Monticello exploring the legacy of Sally Hemings, who skillfully prevailed on Thomas Jefferson to free from slavery the four Jefferson-Hemings children who lived into adulthood nyti.ms/2Iyy4RF
A newly discovered shipwreck in Alabama summons the ghosts of enslaved Africans, @BrentNYT wrote last year nyti.ms/2InIlRI
Memphis hauled down memorials to its Confederate past, but Tennessee lawmakers could obstruct similar moves in other cities, Brent Staples wrote last January nyti.ms/2Xiy3pl
