Award-winning investigative journalist and Ida B. Wells Society co-founder, Nikole Hannah-Jones will be receiving The Vivian Malone Courage Award on Oct. 1 as part of the 9th annual March on Washington Film Festival. The festival serves as a national platform to explore social and environmental justice through a slate of impactful films and events. Vivian Malone is known for being the first Black student to graduate from The University of Alabama. She and James Hood famously defied Governor George Wallace, who “stood in the school house door” to block them from enrolling at the all-white university.  She passed away in 2005....

Candace Y.A. Montague is an online and print freelance journalist in Washington, DC.  She has written articles about topics including HIV/AIDS advocacy, the effects of homicide, opioids, cancer, re-entering citizens, Black maternal mortality crisis, mental health, Alzheimer's disease, cancer, transgender health, diversity and equity in science and hospital closings. In 2019, Candace, a native Washingtonian, received the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists for her article about the hidden costs and emotional toll on parents who have lost children to homicide in DC. In 2020, she was the recipient of an award...

Ida B. Wells Society co-founder and award-winning journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones, has been named one of the 100 most influential people of the year by Time Magazine.  This year’s list also included Naomi Osaka, Cathy Park Hong, Stacey Abrams and Joe Biden. The article on Hannah-Jones was written by film director and Oscar-winning writer, Barry Jenkins. Jenkins himself was included on the same list in 2017.  “The journalist from Waterloo, Iowa, contains multitudes. She is the most emphatic laugh, the consummate ally, the staunchest critic,” said Jenkins of Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones has been a recent staple in the news for her work on The 1619 Project and its impact in schools and her tenure controversy at the University of North Carolina...