And the Pulitzer Prizes also made history this year.

Dana Canedy: “And last, but certainly not least, for music, the prize is awarded to 'DAMN.,' by Kendrick Lamar, a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African-American life.”

Kendrick Lamar is the first non-classical or jazz artist to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He has topped the charts with music that tackles issues of race, politics, religion, mental health and violence, including in his song “Duckworth.”

Kendrick Lamar: “They didn’t kill him; in fact, it look like they’re the last to survive / Pay attention, that one decision changed both of they lives / One curse at a time / Reverse the manifest and good karma, and I’ll tell you why / You take two strangers and put ’em in random predicaments…”

Other Pulitzer Prize winners included journalists behind the The New York Times and New Yorker investigations into how Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein had sexually harassed, assaulted and raped more than 100 women—revelations that helped spark a wave of resistance to sexual assault and harassment in workplaces around the world. And James Forman Jr. has won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his book “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.”