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LIVE: 2021 Hillman Prize-winning journalists talk with Hillman judges about their stellar public service reporting and analysis. #Hillman21
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Recapping past Hillman Prize-winners including @rtraister and @Fahrenthold. #hillman21

Hear Alix Freedman in convo with @tplohetski about his exposé of the police killing of Javier Ambler, a Black father who was killed by police, who were egged on by reality TV producers from LivePD

After 6 years in immigration dentition the young woman profiled in Bogado's story is back in Honduras, but she's still adjusting to basic things like hugs, hot showers, and parental authority. But the good news is she's off all the psych meds she needed on the inside. #hillman21

.@aurabogado says of her co-winner @iff_or: "She's not only an incredible data reporter, she's an incredible person." #hillman21

Hillman Prize Web winner @aurabogado says the Biden administration really should have anticipated the influx of child migrants. #hillman21

.@mrdannyglover is very proud to present the special Hillman Officer's Award to his old friend Bob Moses who uses math as an organizing tool to empower Black youth through the Algebra Project.

Officer's Award-winner Bob Moses tells @mrdannyglover how the right to an equal education is a core Constitutional value. #hillman21

Moses combats what he calls "sharecropper education" which means that young people's opportunities are circumscribed by substandard education, so they can only do the job the system assigns them. #hillman21

Hillman judge @KatrinaNation talks with @ddayen, Magazine winner for “Unsanitized,” his multi-faceted daily chronicle of the COVID pandemic. bit.ly/32CcaFY #hillman21

Magazine winner @ddayen talks about how he was driven to continue his COVID chronicles because the pandemic was affecting people lives so profoundly, including banks taking people's stimulus money to pay overdraft accounts. #hillman21

.@ddayen learned from his sources in the banking industry that Trump's Treasury said it was ok to take stimulus $$ to pay off overdrafts even though CARES money was supposed to be for immediate physical needs to support people and bolster the economy, not enriching banks.

Judge @HaroldMeyerson talks with @zachdcarter and @rickperlstein about their Hillman Prize-winning books: A biography of John Maynard Keynes and an epic history of the Carter years and the New Right. #hillman21

At the dawn of WW1 a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law’s motorcycle for a journey to London that changed the course of history... #hillman21

.@zachdcarter explains that Keynes was so much more than a brilliant economist--he was a philosopher with a deep vision about democracy, human freedom, and the nature of the Good Life. #hillman21

Traditional economists say that economics is about scarcity. Keynes said the fundamental problem was that of uncertainty. How do we peruse goals when we don't know what the future brings? #hillman21

.@zachdcarter Keynes is not a deficit therapist. He was a philosopher with a deep anti-authoritarian vision and a desire for all people to know true freedom and aesthetic cultivation. #hillman21

.@rickperlstein explains that his Hillman Prize-winning book Reaganland is the culmination of 24 years of work on the history of the US right. #hillman21

.@rickperlstein argues that Jimmy Carter represents the sense of the exhaustion of the New Deal Paradigm, an age of limits and tradeoffs, where the Dems spending for the common good was somehow a bankrupt notion. #hillman21

Hillman judge Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with Opinion & Analysis winner @jbouie: "I hesitate to even call him a columnist because he's just as much a public historian." #hillman21

The story of child immigration detention at the border began under president Obama. @SethFW won a 2012 Hillman for stories about kids who end up in county foster care systems after their parents were deported.

TNC: The core of the GOP post-Trump is whittling down the electorate to their favored group. Is this a battle over what the franchise will look like in the 21st C? #hillman21

.@jbouie there has always been an element of the US that rejects the idea of equality. They want to keep the power in the hands of conservative white Americans. The Dems haven't really come to grips with the implications of that: #hillman21