Honors and Recognition

“Through the year of social distancing, Truthout proved that journalists need not be distant from the people hardest hit by the pandemic, including prisoners and ICE detainees. Its work during 2020 exposed social and racial injustices baked into COVID’s impacts and systemic flaws that worsened the pandemic. Inmate Lacino Hamilton wrote columns for Truthout about COVID in U.S. prisons, and thanks heavily to Truthout’s attention and public platform beginning in 2015, Hamilton won his freedom from the Michigan prison system in September after 26 years of wrongful incarceration for a crime he did not commit.”

“Bernd’s exhaustive interviews and reporting highlight an especially disadvantaged population seeking asylum in the U.S. under increasingly hostile policies. Her story breaks new ground in explaining what is happening at the border, detailing specific injustices, rather than re-explaining arguments that already are well-documented. Bernd’s work struck most closely to the idea of ‘defending the disadvantaged,’ telling an individual family’s story to illustrate the broader effects of U.S. immigration policies and procedures.”

“Disappointed with the lack of media coverage of issues of importance in her community, Candice chose to devote her journalistic expertise to independent media. She has consistently reported on events and issues that truly give a voice to the otherwise voiceless. Her courageous and objective reporting of grassroots activism, injustice, and other progressive topics the media tends to ignore, uplifts all while promoting pathways to peace and reconciliation. We honor Candice for her journalistic excellence and for her heartfelt, humanistic stories of real-life struggles of the people seeking justice and a better life in North Texas and the world.”