Ozier Muhammad

Ozier Muhammad is a photojournalist who has been on the staff of The New York Times since 1992. He has also worked for Ebony Magazine, The Charlotte Observer, and Newsday. He earned a B.A. in 1972 in photography from Columbia College Chicago.^[1]

In 1984, Muhammad won the George Polk Award for News Photography.^[2]

As a photographer for Newsday, Muhammad won the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting in 1985, along with the reporters Josh Friedman and Dennis Bell, for their series on the plight of the hungry in Africa.

He was selected as a photographer for the 1990 project Songs of My People.^[3]

Personal

Muhammad is a grandson of Elijah Muhammad, a founder of the Nation of Islam.^[4]

He was formerly married to Dr. Kimberly Muhammad-Earl, a director of special projects at the Chicago Board of Education.^[5] Ozier is the father of two children. His son Khalil wrote "The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America," and will be the new director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. His daughter Pilar is currently 14.

Notes

1. ^ "Ozier Muhammad". Western Kentucky University. October 25, 2004. http://www.wku.edu/teaching/engagement/speaker.html. Retrieved 2010-04-25. 
2. ^ The George Polk Awards for Journalism
3. ^ University of Missouri. "Songs of My People: A Collection of Photographs from the Museum of Art and Archaeology." Accessed August 7, 2009.
4. ^ Muhammad, Ozier. "How Race is Lived in America: Photographer's Journal: Which Man's Army." New York Times, 2000.
5. ^ "WEDDINGS; Stephanie Lawson, K. G. Muhammad." The New York Times, 1 March 1998.

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