Background
Dash grew up in New York City and later attended Howard University.
Dash grew up in New York City and later attended Howard University.
Howard University.
On October 31, 2014 the Illinois Executive Ethics Commission found Dash in violation of the Illinois State Employees and Officials Ethics Acting. He spent 1969-1970 as a Peace Corps high school teacher in Kenya. Rosa Lee, which started as an eight-part series for the Washington Post in September 1994, is the story of one woman and her family"s struggle against poverty in the projects of Washington, District of Columbia lieutenant was picked as one of the best 100 pieces in 20th-century American Journalism by New York University"s journalism department.
While living in the inner city of Washington, District of Columbia, for a year, Dash researched teenage pregnancy in black youths for his book, When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing.
The book features conversations with teens and contains stories that contradict the common belief that inadequate birth control and lack of sex education classes are the causes of teenage pregnancy. In 1998 Dash joined the University of Illinois as a professor of Journalism.
He was later named the Swanlund Chair Professor of Journalism, Law, and Afro-American Studies in 2000. Three years later he was made a permanent faculty member in the University"s Center for Advanced Study.
He joined the Washington Post in 1965 where he worked as a member of the special projects unit, as part of the investigative desk, and as the West Africa Bureau Chief.