Roger Wilkins

Roger Wilkins, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. Department of Justice, is currently Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American Culture at George Mason University. He serves as publisher of The Crisis, the national publication of the NAACP, and has authored several books, most recently Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism (Beacon, 2002).

Published in VQR

• Doing the Work: Why We Need Affirmative Action, Winter 2004