As a columnist for the New York Daily News, she was awarded the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for "her penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues.
"[4] She is an associate professor at Morgan State University's School of Global Journalism & Communication in Baltimore, Maryland.
[7] Except for a brief stay in public housing, they lacked indoor plumbing and were forced to bring in buckets of water multiple times per day.
Ellen Goodman, in The New York Times Book Review, praised its "thoroughness" and wrote that the authors "chase down every lead, go down every blind alley, talk to every Deep Throat, profile every character in a cast as long and exotic as that of a Solzhenitsyn novel.
[2][13] She also became an assistant professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and was faculty supervisor of the student publication Bronx Beat.
Among the topics she wrote about the year she won the Pulitzer were affirmative action, Johnnie Cochran and the O. J. Simpson murder trial, and the Million Man March.
[16] In 2005, Shipp left Columbia and became the Lawrence Stessin Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.