Background
Eugene Harold Robinson was born on March 12, 1954, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, to Harold I. and Louisa Robinson.
Eugene Robinson
300 College Ave, Orangeburg, SC 29115, United States
Robinson studied at Felton Laboratory School.
500 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
In 1974, Robinson received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan.
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson
500 S State St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
In 1974, Robinson received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan.
300 College Ave, Orangeburg, SC 29115, United States
Robinson studied at Felton Laboratory School.
(A black journalist shares the insights into race and powe...)
A black journalist shares the insights into race and power he found while living in Brazil, a nation plagued with racial divides but lacking the sense of racial identity and pride needed to overcome those problems.
https://www.amazon.com/Coal-Cream-Journey-Beyond-Affirmation/dp/0684857227/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(The African American population in the United States has ...)
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book, Disintegration, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson argues that over decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered.
https://www.amazon.com/Disintegration-Splintering-America-Eugene-Robinson/dp/0767929969/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro ...)
In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself - yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams of his people. Those thoughts and dreams are the basis for what may become a post-Castro Cuba.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009NG2B90/?tag=2022091-20
2012
Eugene Harold Robinson was born on March 12, 1954, in Orangeburg, South Carolina, to Harold I. and Louisa Robinson.
Robinson attended Trinity Methodist Church and studied at Felton Training School (later Felton Laboratory School) on the campus of South Carolina State University. In 1967 Robinson began the tenth grade at Orangeburg High School, becoming one of a handful of black students enrolled in the school only a few years after desegregation.
In 1974, Robinson received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan.
Robinson began his journalistic career at the San Francisco Chronicle where he covered the trial of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. In 1980 Robinson moved to Arlington, Virginia, to begin work at the Washington Post as a reporter covering city hall. He was named an assistant city editor in 1981 and a city editor in 1984.
From 1988 to 1992, he was the Washington Post’s South American correspondent, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. During his tenure in Buenos Aires, Robinson spent time in Brazil - time that eventually led to the material for his first book, Coal to Cream: A Black Man’s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race, published in 1999. The New York Times described the book as a model for discussions of race.
Robinson was named the London bureau chief from 1992 to 1994 before returning to Washington to become the newspaper’s foreign editor. He was promoted to assistant managing editor in 1999 and managed the “Style” section of the newspaper.
Robinson became a regular columnist in 2005, eventually writing a twice-a-week column that reflects on the relationships between politics and culture. He also hosts a weekly online chat session.
Robinson is a regular guest on television shows that focus on political commentary, including The Rachel Maddow Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Morning Joe, and Meet the Press.
Eugene Robinson is particularly known as a journalist, columnist, and editor of The Washington Post. Robinson earned a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for commentary focused on then-Senator Barack Obama in the context of his first presidential campaign. He was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 2013. He was also elected as the chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board and served the board in the position of chair for a year.
(A black journalist shares the insights into race and powe...)
1999(In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro ...)
2012(The African American population in the United States has ...)
2011Robinson frequently poses himself as a liberal political analyst. In his work Last Dance in Havana: The Final Days of Fidel Castro and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution, Robinson anticipates a post-Castro Cuba and notes the embedded role that music and dance play in Cuban culture and politics. Throughout the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries and, later, the presidential campaign, Robinson focused many of his newspaper columns on the rise of Barack Obama. Drawing on the historical context and personal reflection, Robinson’s coverage of the Obama campaign provided a fresh perspective on race and politics while steadfastly avoiding the politics of identity.
Robinson is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the Council on Foreign Relations.
While living in the Haight-Ashbury District of San Francisco, Eugene met his future wife, Avis, originally from Silver Spring, Maryland, who was in San Francisco completing postgraduate work. The couple married on September 23, 1978. They have two children - Aaron E. Robinson and Lowell E. Robinson.
