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Robin Washington grew up in Chicago in a family of black and Jewish civil rights activists. Participating in sit-ins and protests when he was three years old, today he recalls those events fondly as "family outings."

A nationally award-winning journalist and commentator/guest on National Public Radio, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC News, CNN and the BBC, Washington is news director of Minnesota's Duluth News Tribune, after having served as editorial page editor since 2004. He was previously a columnist for the Boston Herald, authoring the newspaper's popular "Roads Scholar" and "Square Deal" features, and spent two years covering the Catholic Church clergy sexual abuse scandal, on which he still comments for numerous newspapers. He also worked on the Boston Herald sports staff.

Washington's 30-year print and broadcast career includes previous positions as a publisher, editor, producer and on-air reporter.