Speaker: Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson – Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and political analyst at MSNBC – will present the Fall 2025 Manatt-Phelps Lecture.
Robinson began his career at The Washington Post in 1980 as a city hall reporter, eventually serving as assistant city editor, South America correspondent, London bureau chief, and foreign editor. In 2005, he moved to the Post’s Op-Ed page as a politics and culture columnist, a position he held until April 2025. His columns were syndicated to 262 newspapers, and in 2009 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his columns on the presidential election of Barack Obama. Robinson has also been an MSNBC political analyst since 2008 and is a frequent guest on NBC’s Meet the Press, CNN, and other news outlets. He is the author of three books: “Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America” (2010), “Last Dance in Havana” (2004), and “Coal to Cream: A Black Man’s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race” (1999). Robinson earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, where he was the first Black student to serve as co-editor-in-chief of the award-winning student newspaper, The Michigan Daily.