Ozier Muhammad

Ozier Muhammad
Born	United States
Occupation	Photojournalist
Children	Khalil Gibran Muhammad (son)
Relatives	Elijah Muhammad (grandfather)

Ozier Muhammad is an American photojournalist who was on the staff of The New York Times from 1992 to 2014. 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 shared the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with Joshua Friedman and Dennis Bell "for their series on the plight of the hungry in Africa."^[3]

He was selected as a photographer for the 1990 project Songs of My People.^[4]

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Muhammad is a grandson of Elijah Muhammad, a founder of the Nation of Islam.^[5]

He was formerly married to Dr. Kimberly Muhammad-Earl, a director of special projects at the Chicago Board of Education.^[6]

References

^ "Ozier Muhammad". Western Kentucky University. October 25, 2004. Retrieved April 25, 2010.
^ The George Polk Awards for Journalism.
^ "International Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 29, 2013.
^ "Songs of My People: A Collection of Photographs from the Museum of Art and Archaeology" Archived 2010-06-01 at the Wayback Machine. University of Missouri. Retrieved August 7, 2009.
^ Muhammad, Ozier. "How Race is Lived in America: Photographer's Journal: Which Man's Army". The New York Times. 2000.
^ "WEDDINGS; Stephanie Lawson, K. G. Muhammad". The New York Times. March 1, 1998.

External links

Khalil Gibran Muhammad at Library of Congress, with 1 library catalog records

Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting

As Pulitzer Prize for Telegraphic Reporting - International (1942–1947)
1942–1947	Laurence Edmund Allen (1942) Ira Wolfert (1943) Daniel De Luce (1944) Mark S. Watson (1945) Homer Bigart (1946) Eddy Gilmore (1947)

As Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting (1948–present)
1948–1949	Paul W. Ward (1948) Price Day (1949)
1950–1959	Edmund Stevens (1950) Keyes Beech (1951 shared) Homer Bigart (1951 shared) Marguerite Higgins (1951 shared) Relman Morin (1951 shared) Fred Sparks (1951 shared) Don Whitehead (1951 shared) John M. Hightower (1952) Austin Wehrwein (1953) Jim G. Lucas (1954) Harrison E. Salisbury (1955) William Randolph Hearst Jr. (1956 shared) J. Kingsbury-Smith (1956 shared) Frank Conniff (1956 shared) Russell Jones (1957) Staff of The New York Times (1958) Joseph Martin (1959 shared) Philip Santora (1959 shared)
1960–1969	A. M. Rosenthal (1960) Lynn Heinzerling (1961) Walter Lippmann (1962) Hal Hendrix (1963) Malcolm W. Browne (1964 shared) David Halberstam (1964 shared) J. A. Livingston (1965) Peter Arnett (1966) R. John Hughes (1967) Alfred Friendly (1968) William Tuohy (1969)
1970–1979	Seymour M. Hersh (1970) Jimmie Lee Hoagland (1971) Peter R. Kann (1972) Max Frankel (1973) Hedrick Smith (1974) William Mullen (1975 shared) Ovie Carter (1975 shared) Sydney H. Schanberg (1976) Henry Kamm (1978) Richard Ben Cramer (1979)
1980–1989	Joel Brinkley (1980 shared) Jay Mather (1980 shared) Shirley Christian (1981) John Darnton (1982) Thomas L. Friedman (1983 shared) Loren Jenkins (1983 shared) Karen Elliott House (1984 shared) Joshua Friedman (1985 shared) Dennis Bell (1985 shared) Ozier Muhammad (1985 shared) Lewis M. Simons (1986 shared) Pete Carey (1986 shared) Katherine Ellison (1986 shared) Michael Parks (1987) Thomas L. Friedman (1988) Bill Keller (1989 shared) Glenn Frankel (1989 shared)
1990–1999	Nicholas D. Kristof (1990 shared) Sheryl WuDunn (1990 shared) Caryle Murphy (1991 shared) Serge Schmemann (1991 shared) Patrick J. Sloyan (1992) John F. Burns (1993 shared) Roy Gutman (1993 shared) Staff of The Dallas Morning News (1994) Mark Fritz (1995) David Rohde (1996) John F. Burns (1997) Staff of The New York Times (1998) Staff of The Wall Street Journal (1999)
2000–2009	Mark Schoofs (2000) Ian Denis Johnson (2001 shared) Paul Salopek (2001 shared) Barry Bearak (2002) Kevin Sullivan (2003 shared) Mary Jordan (2003 shared) Anthony Shadid (2004) Kim Murphy (2005 shared) Dele Olojede (2005 shared) Joseph Kahn (2006 shared) Jim Yardley (2006 shared) Staff of The Wall Street Journal (2007) Steve Fainaru (2008) Staff of The New York Times (2009)
2010–2020	Anthony Shadid (2010) Clifford J. Levy (2011 shared) Ellen Barry (2011 shared) Jeffrey Gettleman (2012) David Barboza (2013) Jason Szep (2014 shared) Andrew R. C. Marshall (2014 shared) Staff of The New York Times (2015) Alissa J. Rubin (2016) Staff of The New York Times (2017) Clare Baldwin (2018 shared) Andrew R.C. Marshall (2018 shared) Manuel Mogato (2018 shared) Maggie Michael, Maad al-Zikry and Nariman El-Mofty, Staff of Reuters, with notable contributions from Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo (2019) Staff of The New York Times (2020)

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Artists	Museum of Modern Art Photographers' Identities

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