The Sidney Hillman Foundation announces today the winners of the 76^th annual Hillman Prizes for journalism:

• Book – Michelle Adams, The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Newspaper – Lauren Caruba, Marin Wolf, Azul Sordo, Emily Brindley, Michael Hogue and Maria Ramos Pacheco, “Standard of Fear,” The Dallas Morning News
• Magazine – WIRED newsroom, Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government
• Broadcast – Charlotte Kaufman and Andrew Jarecki, The Alabama Solution, The Alabama Film Project and HBO Documentary Films
• Opinion & Analysis – Lydia Polgreen, “The Great Migration,” The New York Times
• The SEIU Award for Reporting on Racial and Economic Justice – Ginger Thompson and Doris Burke, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica

Michelle Adams tells the compelling story of the Supreme Court’s momentous decision in the case of Milliken v. Bradley, in which the justices brought school desegregation to a halt across the North. The “containment” of Blacks to certain disadvantaged neighborhoods and schools happened unofficially, through racially separate real estate brokerages. In The Containment, Adams exposes how this cemented educational inequality in the Northern and Western U.S. and shaped an enduring resistance to affirmative action and civil rights reforms.

The eight-part investigative series “Standard of Fear” describes the widespread collateral damage of…