Douglas Blackmon Biography

Douglas A. Blackmon is the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II and co-executive producer of the acclaimed PBS documentary of the same name. His is also a contributing editor at The Washington Post and chair and host of Forum a public affairs program produced by the University of Virginia's Miller Center and aired on more than 100 PBS affiliates across the U.S.
Until joining The Washington Post in 2011 Blackmon was the longtime chief of The Wall Street Journal's Atlanta bureau and the paper's Senior National Correspondent.
Blackmon is also a co-founder and board member of two socially and ethnically diverse charter schools serving more than 600 students including his own two children in grades kindergarten through eight in the inner city of Atlanta. He has been honored by the state legislature of Georgia for distinguished scholarship and service to history. In 2010 he received the Grassroots Justice Award from the Georgia Justice Project.

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