Awards
Roberts, along with co-author Hank Klibanoff (managing editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution), won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History for their book The Race Beat. In it, Roberts and Klibanoff chronicled the civil rights struggle in America and the role the press played in bringing it to the forefront. The book's major contributions included an analysis of Gunnar Myrdal and Ralph Bunche's seminal 1944 book, An American Dilemma, which outlined the problems and possible solutions to American segregation, and a close examination of the contribution of the black press to the Civil Rights movement.
Roberts received the National Press Club's Fourth Estate Award for Distinguished Contributions to Journalism in 1993.
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