Jamelle won the prize for opinion and analysis journalism for his thoughtful columns pursuing “social justice and public policy for the common good.” Read more in this note from Kathleen Kingsbury.

Based in Charlottesville, Va., and Washington, Jamelle Bouie became a New York Times Opinion columnist in 2019. Before that he was the chief political correspondent for Slate magazine. Washington Post contributor Jamelle Bouie, or @jbouie, posted the following to a thread in Alex Seitz-Wald’s Twitter feed (or whater it’s called) about my hyphenated-names post from earlier today: Holy crap. That post would have been better if it were just “Look at this Jewry Jew Jew.” To which I responded: I don’t buy into. Not that Trump isn’t trying. In just the last two weeks, he has retweeted a video of a supporter in Florida shouting “white power,” threatened to scrap an Obama-era fair housing rule meant to break patterns of segregation (citing its “devastating impact” on suburbs), promised to veto a defense funding bill that would also take the names of Confederate generals off military bases,.

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19.8k Followers, 605 Following, 2,689 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie). In the New York Times, Jamelle Bouie deftly and succinctly refutes the rest of his own column, which proposes the destruction of the Supreme Court, by laying out a standard that applies perfectly.

I am delighted to share that Jamelle Bouie has won the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.

Since 1950, the Sidney Hillman Foundation has honored “journalists, writers and public figures who pursue social justice and public policy for the common good.” This is a perfect characterization of Jamelle and the work he has done for us and for our readers. Usb portable diskette driver for mac. We are incredibly proud of him. He joins a distinguished list of recent winners, including our own Michelle Goldberg.

In 2020, Jamelle brought his political, historical and personal knowledge to bear on how Covid-19, the tumultuous presidential campaign and the protests and violence after the killing of George Floyd were really one story, intersecting with Black life in America.

“Jamelle never stops learning, never stops thinking, never stops reacting, never stops recalibrating how he sees the world, but at the same time he has a core set of principles that guide everything he does,” said Aaron Retica, Jamelle’s editor. “His profound, always-in-development understanding of American history helps us see what is happening around us more clearly, but he also has the gift of revealing how the present illuminates the past.”

Jamelle turned the tables on a conventional narrative after events like the protests of Floyd’s killing: “If we’re going to speak of rioting protesters, then we need to speak of rioting police as well,” he wrote. He showed how President Trump’s policies and rhetoric reinforced the way that in America, there have long been two classes of citizens, one favored, one dispossessed.

Jamelle revealed the true significance of Juneteenth, and he explored Black identity in the U.S. in a resonant column about attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’s heritage.

And Jamelle refused to let the story be just about Mr. Trump. “What if,” he said after the election, “the thing we need some citizens to give up is a sense of superiority, a sense that they are — or ought to be — first among equals?”

Jamelle, a native of Virginia, became a Times columnist in 2019 after serving as the chief political correspondent for Slate.

Many congratulations, Jamelle, and a toast to many more thoughtful columns to come.

Find the full list of Hillman Prize winners here.

Kathleen

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UPDATE: An exchange between reader Sheila and me in the Comments thread to this post:

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SHEILA: I have a hard time understanding why post generation boomers are so negative about us. We cared about the poor, protested unnecessary wars, protested corruption and actually gave a shit about racism and the environment. Along with women’s rights. And for this we are vilified? It seems the right wing has been allowed to change the narrative to cast us as a bunch of stoned welfare recipients. I am a boomer and I kept my name because we moved to Alaska and I wanted my friends from the Bay Area and Madison to be able to find me . My kids are named after my husband. It honestly did not seem to matter. Traffic boosterdrive more traffic to your site!. At any rate, I am really proud to be of my generation. I only hope that the generations to come eventually emulate us. Sheila

Scripte select. ME: And you think my post is about women who keep their married names after they marry, WHY EXACTLY, Sheila?

Let me spell it out: This post is about people WHO GIVE THEIR KIDS a last name that is: the mother’s last name, a hyphen, father’s last name. This is a tiny segment of upscale people, almost all of them with degrees from fancy universities and from or currently living in a large metro upper-Atlantic coast area. I suspect that you could travel throughout, say, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico, and almost every other non-northeastern or mid-Atlantic state, spending weeks in each, and never encounter a Millenial with a hyphenated mother’s-last-name/father’s-last-name last name. Yet people with those last names are heavily represented in the student body of the most prestigous and expensive private colleges and universities, and in the upper-tier print news media and other no-one-but-people-with-upscale-backgrounds-need-apply professional circles.

To spell it out further: It’s about elitism. It’s about putting a neon sign on your kid that is intended to shout: “Upscale.” “From erudite, highly-educated family.” Exactly the way, back in the early and mid-20th Century, the New England boarding prep schools, the Ivy League, the banking industry, the State Department, and ALL the other pillars of wealth and privilege were stocked with names like McGeorge Bundy, Erskine Bowles, Fill-in-the-Blanks-Wasp-Last-Name-As-First-Name.