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Posted: April 20, 2008 |
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NABJ Congratulates Pulitzer Winner Eugene Robinson
Detroit Free Press Staff and Books with African-American themes also Recognized
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) congratulates Eugene Robinson for winning the Pulitzer Prize for his commentaries tracing the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. The Pulitzer Committee commended Robinson’s "eloquent columns” on the election of the nation’s first African-American president showcasing "graceful writing and grasp of the larger historic picture."
"Eugene Robinson charted Barack Obama’s ascendency to the presidency with insight, analysis and sensitivity,” said NABJ President Barbara Ciara. "We are proud that such an esteemed member who was denied professional advancement came back to obtain journalism’s highest honor."
Robinson has reported for The Washington Post for 25 years as a city hall reporter, city editor, foreign correspondent, foreign editor, and assistant managing editor of the The Post’s award-winning Style section. Robinson was passed up for the managing editor position in 2005, when he became a full-time columnist for the paper. Robinson is also a frequent television commentator on the cable news network MSNBC where he provides sharp and unbiased political analysis.
"Robinson now firmly enters the national stage at a defining time in the evolution of media’s new voice,” Ciara said.
In the history category, Annette Gordon-Reed won for her “painstaking exploration of a sprawling multi-generation slave family” in exploring the relationship of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson in “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.”
Douglas A. Blackmon, author of “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II”
also won a Pulitzer Prize in the category of general nonfiction. The committee said Blackman, “rescues a multitude of atrocities from virtual obscurity.
An advocacy group established in 1975 in Washington, D.C., NABJ is the largest organization of journalists of color in the nation, with more than 4,100 members, and provides educational, career development and support to black journalists worldwide.
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