The Authentic Voice Web site, like the book and DVD, features stories honored in the annual Let’s Do It Better! Workshop on Journalism, Race and Ethnicity held at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. It allows us to continue the discussions sparked by the newspaper and television stories highlighted in the book and on the DVD.

Rim Of The New World
For more than 18 months, reporter Anne Hull of The Washington Post went looking for the new America that is emerging from large-scale immigration. She found it in unique corners of a city long defined racially and ethnically in two tones: black and white. With more than 200,000 foreign-born people arriving in metropolitan Atlanta in the last decade of the 20th Century, Hull found this "new world in old places." Her series was a 2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist in national reporting. (Photo credit: Sarah L. Voison/The Washington Post)
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Torn From The Land
This Associated Press series, which first appeared in 2001, documents a largely untold chapter of America's violent racial history. Reporters Dolores Barclay, Todd Lewan and editor Bruce DeSilva teach the importance of investigative reporting by proving the complaints about land thefts that are central to the reparations movement. The series unequivocally proves specific land ownership claims, thus documenting a history of racial injustice that continues to have human consequences. (Photo credit: Rogelio Solis/AP)
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Diverse And Divided and Tale Of Two Cultures
Elizabeth Llorente of The Record, in Hackensack, N.J., journeys to the center of seismic demographic shifts, and introduces readers to the next chapter in the country's immigration story -- one in which old tensions and new opportunities roil and blossom in small-town America. Her stories showcase a new way to deploy the prism through which so many journalists look at stories of immigration and other racial/ethnic change. (Photo credit: Danielle P. Richards/The Record)
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Broken Trust
Jodi Rave's series for Lee Enterprise Newspapers is a complicated story about Indian land rights and federal bureaucracy. It's a tale of how discrimination older than the United States conspired with neglect and malfeasance to bleed millions of dollars from a struggling people. Rave provides insights into the universal challenges of swimming through a bureaucratic morass, and the reporting problems specific to Indian country.
(Photo credit: North County Times)
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Additional Stories
The Authentic Voice project also recommends several additional stories from honorees from the "Let's Do It Better!" Workshop representing The Sacramento Bee, The San Jose Mercury News, The Raleigh News & Observer and The Independent. (Photo credit: Bee/Anne Chadwick Williams)
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