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Carl Chancellor is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has a passion for human rights and social justice issues. For more than 20 years he was a reporter and columnist for the Knight-Ridder news service and its flagship paper, the Akron Beacon Journal. As a reporter he covered criminal justice, social services, features, education, and politics. He was on the campaign trail traveling the country during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. In 1993 he was a lead writer on a yearlong series focusing on race relations—A Question of Color—that won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Meritorious Public Service.
Before coming to American Progress, he was a columnist and blogger for the online advocacy group Change.org writing about issues of race, poverty, and criminal justice. He also taught journalism at Howard University and contributes articles to a number of national publications, including USA Today, BlackAmericaWeb.com, and the website Civil Rights in America.
One black man’s perspective on the cultural impact of Beatlemania in America.
On Wednesday, August 28, 1963, more than a quarter-million people converged on the nation's capital to demand an end to racial discrimination in what historians agree was the ultimate expression of American democracy: citizens petitioning their government for change.
This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we should remember the true Dr. King and free him from a reconstructed history that never was.
The Center for American Progress understands that to be competitive in the global economy America must make investment in education a national priority.
The Center for American Progress understands what unions and our middle class mean to our economy and offer solutions to restore shared prosperity in our country.
The difference in the governing philosophies of presidents Obama and Bush couldn’t be more stark as Hurricane Isaac bears down on New Orleans
Carl Chancellor questions the states’ rights motives of the American Legislative Exchange Council in opposing basic education standards for our kids.
Carl Chancellor marks the anniversary of the swearing-in of the first African American senator and reflects on the nation’s long-running saga of black suffrage, which continues today.
