Join us for a conversation with Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a 2011 recipient of a U-M honorary degree.

Eugene Robinson is one of the nation's foremost journalists, offering illumination and insight into pivotal eras of political and social transformation. He attended U-M, becoming the first African-American co-editor-in-chief of the Michigan Daily, and he reported on the impact of the anti-Vietnam War movement on campus, the 1972 presidential race, and the Watergate scandal. He obtained his first professional job as a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he covered the trial that followed the Patricia Hearst kidnapping.

In 1980, Robinson accepted a position at the Washington Post and served in several positions, including foreign correspondent in South America and London bureau chief. He then returned to Washington to become the foreign editor, at which time he was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations. Robinson began to write a regular column for the Op-Ed page in 2005, and in 2009 his keen perception and profound lyricism were honored with a Pulitzer Prize in Commentary.

Robinson appears frequently on MSNBC as a political analyst, on shows such as Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Morning Joe, The Rachel Maddow Show and Hardball with Chris Matthews.

Sponsored by CAAS (The Center for Afroamerican & African Studies) and The Michigan Daily.