She is a member of the Board of Contributors for USA Today’s Forum Page, part of the newspaper’s Opinion section, and has been managing editor of Boston magazine. She is a long-time contributor to The New York Times and has written for the op-ed page of USA Today and for Slate, Harper's, Smithsonian, among other publications. She is also the author of A Dream of Freedom, a young adult history of the civil rights movement (Scholastic, 2004). Anthony Lukas Book Prize for Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. In 2002 she was awarded both the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the J. McWhorter has written extensively on race and the struggle for civil rights in the US. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1974. McWhorter is from Birmingham, Alabama, where she attended the Brooke Hill School.
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