Brent Staples of The Times’s editorial board has sought to correct the parts of the national narrative on race that have been sanitized and distorted, to remind Americans that the devaluation of black lives that led to slavery still haunts the country. His editorials on American racial justice and culture were honored today with the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. A selection of those editorials follows. How bad science and a moral panic, fueled in part by the news media, demonized mothers and defamed a generation.

Source: New York Times April 15, 2019 19:07 UTC