About Roger Wilkins
Civil rights leader, professor of history, attorney, author, and journalist Roger Wilkins is best known for his role as part of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning team of The Washington Post reporters and editors who exposed the Watergate scandal. His more than 30 years in journalism have helped him become a premier media speaker.
Also an insightful human rights speaker, Roger Wilkins began his career as a welfare lawyer, and his legal career included interning with the legendary Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund. He went on to serve as an assistant attorney general in the Johnson administration before embarking on a journalism career that included positions at the Post, The New York Times, and Washington Star. Now a professor of history and American culture at George Mason University, he is a network radio commentator for NPR, and the publisher of the NAACP's journal, Crisis. The author of both an autobiography and Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism, he has written dozens of articles, book reviews, and op-eds for national publications, and conceived, written, and narrated two Frontline television documentaries.
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