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50 Cent A Word 

This platform is the digital home for Fountain’s individual reporting projects and social commentary that over the last 15 years alone have won the Chicago Headline Club’s Peter Lisagor Award, the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award, the Illinois Associated Press Media Editors Award, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Award, the Chicago Journalists Association’s Dorothy Storck Award, numerous other awards and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. In 2024, 50 Cent A Word Substack and the Sounding Alarm series, which Fountain edited, were Lisagor Award finalists and are also finalists for three NABJ Salute To Excellence Awards. 

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About Us

FountainWorks is an independent journalism and media not-for-profit dedicated to telling the untold stories of marginalized and underserved African-American communities in Chicago and its mostly Black suburbs. Unforgotten Bureau (for Social Justice Journalism) and 50 Cent A Word are branches of FountainWorks NFP

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