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robin washington @robinbirk

Editor-at-Large, the Forward; Host/Producer, Wisconsin Public Radio; Contributing Editor, American City Business Journals; Contributing reporter, GBH.

Joined January 2009
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If you read nothing else today, here's a break from the madness. Thank you, Lenny, for sharing our story for the ages. @jdforward forward.com/culture/792700/j…

When a Jewish paperboy played Santa — and the journalist who never forgot him

A 1967 UPI holiday story resonated far beyond Christmas Eve — for its writer, its subject, and the era they lived through

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Harris 47 would give both sides their choices. @StarTribune startribune.com/lets-make-it…

Let’s make it President Harris after all

If Biden resigned so she could be president, if only for a couple months, it could make it easier for the next woman who pursues the presidency.

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Let’s not forget.
Richard Prince@princeeditor
9 Nov 2024
Reposting for Veterans Day -- Back in Print: What Black WWII Reporters Wrote: 27 Were Sent; Covered Every U.S. Theater of the War bit.ly/40GWDUG #journalismsNEWS #nnpa_blackpress #wwII #VeteransDay2024 #VeteransDay #journalism #WorldWarII @robinbirk #blackhistory
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Surprise breakfast guest forward.com/fast-forward/647… @DNC @jdforward

Tim Walz’s surprise visit to Minnesota delegation breakfast encourages Dems, Jewish members

'He is considered a member of the Jewish community, the way he understands how we look at the world, the way he empathizes with it,' said a lawyer for the state party

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22 Aug 2024
Tim Walz surprises his homefolks at the Minnesota delegation breakfast @DNC
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Richard Prince@princeeditor
22 Apr 2024
Ready to Call Out Backsliders on DEI: Marc Morial, Business Groups Challenged Fortune 500 tinyurl.com/mryzuzz8 #journalismsNEWS #journalismsNEWS #journalism #DEI #diversity @womenjournos @robinbirk #NABJ #NAHJ #AAJA #IndigenousJA @MARCMORIAL @NatUrbanLeague @NAACP
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So who is Kathy Cargill? Not who you thought. My complete story. wpr.org/shows/simply-superio…

An ‘outsider’ on Park Point, Kathy Cargill is actually an Oredocker from Ashland

Kathy Cargill has Ashland roots

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Readers (and Esther fans) praise @JewishPress for a beautiful Black queen. @rishonan @jdforward forward.com/culture/594586/b…

A beautiful, Black, Queen Esther with braids — and readers are liking what they see

Whether intentionally or not, a newspaper geared toward an Orthodox audience makes a diversity statement

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Honored to be included in this - especially at this time.
Stance Podcast@Stancepodcast
19 Jan 2024
What does it mean to be a Jewish person of color in the US? We chat w/ journalist @robinbirk, @jocinitiative CEO Ilana Kaufman, Writer Hanah Bloom on her @hey_alma essay & Professor @lewgord #JewsOfColor Plus, music from Mongolian Jazz vocalist Enji ✨ stancepodcast.com
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Stance Podcast@Stancepodcast
19 Jan 2024
What does it mean to be a Jewish person of color in the US? We chat w/ journalist @robinbirk, @jocinitiative CEO Ilana Kaufman, Writer Hanah Bloom on her @hey_alma essay & Professor @lewgord #JewsOfColor Plus, music from Mongolian Jazz vocalist Enji ✨ stancepodcast.com
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@BostonGlobe
1 Dec 2023
A shooting in 1989 would go on to define so much about Boston: its identity, its politics, its problems. But the story behind it — of Mission Hill and the Stuart case — hasn't been fully told. Until now. Our new series is up today. Read it here. trib.al/UpLcGIr

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If you've seen mention of the @HBO/ @BostonGlobe collaboration about the Stuart Case, here is another element of the story that I don't believe is in their report: My exclusive interview with William Bennett for the @BayStateBanner in 1993. tinyurl.com/3nkbkt2u
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Thanks to @princeeditor for allowing me the opportunity to present the @afronews' extraordinary anthology of Black war correspondents in World War II. It was their war, too.
Richard Prince@princeeditor
10 Nov 2023
Back in Print: What Black WWII Reporters Wrote: 27 Were Sent; Covered Every U.S. Theater of the War tinyurl.com/4v4hbfwk #journalismsNEWS #nnpa_blackpress #racism #wwII #VeteransDay2023 #VeteransDay #journalism #WorldWarII @robinbirk #blackhistory
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My thoughts on the trivial, and the deadly realities today. @jdforward forward.com/opinion/563444/w…

With Israel and Gaza at war, trivial matters can restore our empathy

Like tzitzit, minor irritations of everyday life can be reminders of our place in the world — and to work to repair it.

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Thank you Rabbi Lynn for sharing your story. @jdforward
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27 Sep 2023
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb of Berkeley — one of the first women ordained as a rabbi in the U.S. reflects on her activist career — with no regrets. By @robinbirk interviewed her in @jdforward as she celebrates 50 years in the rabbinate: jweekly.com/2023/09/27/after…
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And audio has indeed been added. Share freely!
scribblesonnapkins@scribblesonnapk
3 Sep 2023
Replying to @robinbirk
The audio is there. wpr.org/shows/free-bus-rides…
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Here is the posting (sans audio) of the program with @scribblesonnapk about battery buses. The audio will be added on Tuesday.
scribblesonnapkins@scribblesonnapk
3 Sep 2023
I was interviewed by @robinbirk about the study describing the battery bus drawbacks last week. Now just days after that aired we have yet another Proterra battery electric bus fire. Keep in mind this model was not fitted with the diesel heaters Duluth uses. 🧵
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So here's what I was doing 60 years ago today: forward.com/opinion/554709/s…

I was a child at a civil rights sit-in. 60 years later, what's changed?

Battle over racially segregated Chicago public schools involved Jewish students as well

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Paul Glader@PaulGlader
29 Jun 2023
It was great to talk with @robinbirk ... and to be quoted in his column in @jdforward about the possibilities and perils of @Wikipedia forward.com/opinion/552514/t…

To fix Wikipedia's Holocaust denial, we must start by naming names

Anonymity on the do-it-yourself encyclopedia fuels constant misinformation

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