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Ida B. Wells and Nikole Hannah-Jones were just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism in 2020. Both African-America women, Wells received her award posthumously for her coverage of lynching in America during during the late 1800s, while Jones was awarded for her 1619 Project about the legacy of slavery. Michelle Duster, Well’s great-granddaughter, and Jones, join Joy Reid to discuss. And: Coronavirus-related job losses top 20.5 million, as the unemployment rate reaches almost 15 percent, the highest rate since The Great Depression. Joy Reid and her panel discuss a new ad from The Lincoln Project that details the horrible impact of the mismanagement of the pandemic, and Donald Trump's reaction to the ad. Plus: Shooting death of unarmed, black Georgia man Ahmaud Arbery while he was jogging by two white men with guns raises calls for Georgia to institute hate crime laws. Lawyer for the Arbery family, S. Lee Merritt, Esq., joins Joy Reid to discuss the case. Next: The shooting death of unarmed black man Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia by white men with guns, and the subsequent actions of the criminal justice system in response, are analyzed by experts including historian Jelani Cobb who tells Joy Reid, ‘I think that there is so much about this situation that is horrific.’ Finally: Donald Trump’s White House has rejected CDC guidelines for reopening leaving many doctors and other health care experts appalled at the lack of federal leadership in battling the coronavirus pandemic. All this and more in this Saturday edition of AM JOY on MSNBC.