In The News

2005 RECIPIENT Jonathan Kozol
Education activist, Jonathan Kozol, recently gave a lecture at Harvard’s Memorial Church to discuss his opposition to the reauthorization of the federal No Child Left Behind program. Learn more...

2003 RECIPIENT David Protess
An investigation started in 1999 by Protess and four of his students aided in the recent decision by an Illinois appeals court to request a new trial for a man imprisoned for murder over 20 years ago. Learn more...

2001 RECIPIENT Robert Parris Moses
On July 13, 2007, NOW on PBS ran a feature on Robert Parris Moses and his work with the Algebra Project in Florida, Mississippi and Maryland. The Algebra Project was founded by Moses as a program “to build demand for math literacy in local sites across the country.” Learn more...

Selected Articles

2006 RECIPIENT Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, wrote in a 2006 article lamenting the prevalence of a "compliant press corps" in the run up to the Iraq War; the existence of which, to her, represents an "access of evil." Learn more...

2004 RECIPIENT Barbara Ehrenreich
In a November 2007 article for The Nation, Ehrenreich joined in solidarity with striking screenwriters and striking Broadway stagehands as two groups willing to "stand up to greedy bosses," and where a victory for either group "raises the prospects for everyone else." Learn more...

2002 RECIPIENT Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union, used her $100,000 Puffin/Nation grant to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation's Organizing Institute. Learn more...