Robert E. Pierre (born 1968 in

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) is a longtime

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.'' Pierre has written articles on adult incarceration,

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and

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, and he was one of 18 writer-contributors to an award-winning series of articlesBeing a Black Man
, ''The Washington Post''. Accessed 9-1-2012. for ''The Washington Post'', later republished in an anthology as ''Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril''.

Kevin Merida Kevin Merida (born January 17, 1957) is an American journalist, author and newspaper editor. He currently serves as executive editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversees and coordinates all news gathering operations, including city and nat ...

, ed.,
Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril
', 2007: Public Affairs, 384 pp., . He and fellow ''Post'' writer Jon Jeter are co-authors of ''A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Post-Racial" America''.Robert Pierre and Jon Jeter,
A Day Late and a Dollar Short: High Hopes and Deferred Dreams in Obama's "Post-Racial" America
', 2009: Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, N.J., 246 pp., .

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