RFK Award cartoon contest is open for submissions

Submit to the RFK Book and Journalism Awards by January 24, 2027! We invite you to submit your work published or broadcast in 2026.  Each RFK Book and Journalism Award winner will receive a cash prize.  Robert F. Kennedy Book Award The Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was founded in 1980 with the proceeds from Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.’s bestselling biography, Robert Kennedy and His Times. Each year, the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center presents an award to the book that, as Schlesinger said, "most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy’s purposes – his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity." Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards Founded by the reporters who covered Robert F. Kennedy’s historic 1968 presidential campaign, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy’s concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world. Winning entries provide insights into the causes, conditions, and remedies of human rights violations and injustice, and critical analyses of relevant policies, programs, individual actions, and private endeavors that foster positive change.   We are grateful to the Zuckerman Family Foundation for their support of this year’s Book & Journalism Awards.