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11 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
New York Times wins Pulitzer Prize for public service for coverage of COVID-19. AP awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for photography.

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The Star Tribune of Minneapolis won the breaking news award for its reporting following George Floyd's killing. And the Pulitzer Prizes awarded a special citation to Darnella Frazier, the teen who filmed his killing.

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Louise Erdrich has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "The Night Watchman." Other winners for books included the late Les Payne and daughter Tamara Payne for for their Malcolm X biography “The Dead Are Arising.”

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The Pulitzer Prizes awarded a special citation to Darnella Frazier, the teenager who pulled out her cellphone and recorded the police restraint and death of George Floyd. That video helped launch a global movement against racial injustice.

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26 May
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Tulsa, Oklahoma, will soon begin marking the centennial of its storied and deadly race massacre. In 1921, a white mob carried out a scorched-earth campaign against a city business and residential district known as Black Wall Street. apne.ws/D0CZS43
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18 May
The Fourth Israel-Hamas War:

• Israel carries out a wave of airstrikes, levelling a six-story building in Gaza City.
• Palestinian armed groups fire dozens of rockets into Israel.
• More than 210 Palestinians killed, 10 in Israel, since war began.

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