![]() ![]() Working as a journalist for the progressive Texas Observer, Nate Blakeslee investigated a 1999 cocaine drug bust in the small town of Tulia, Texas, in which forty-six people-mostly black-were arrested and several of these were subsequently sentenced to lengthy prison terms. Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town has been optioned for a feature film and for a CBS television movie. Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town, Public Affairs ( New York, NY), 2005.Ĭontributor to the Texas Monthly and Nation. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation, 2006, for Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town. Hefner First Amendment Award, 2004 Soros Justice Media Fellow J. AWARDS, HONORS:įinalist, National Magazine Award, 2000 Hugh M. Texas Observer, Austin, TX, former editor. Education: Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, B.A., 1992. ![]()
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