Co-presented with the Northwest African American Museum. We join our friends at NAAM in welcoming distinguished Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson to Seattle. Eugene Robinson has worked at the Post since 1980, serving as foreign editor, London bureau chief, associate editor and nationally-syndicated columnist, and receiving a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 along the way, is here this evening to discuss his provocative new book, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America (Doubleday). "In this clear-eyed and compassionate study, Robinson marshals persuasive evidence that the African-American population has splintered into four distinct and increasingly disconnected entities ... Drawing on census records, polling data, sociological studies, and his own experiences growing up in a segregated South Carolina college town in the 1950s, Robinson explores 140 years of black history in America, focusing on how the civil rights movement, desegregation, and affirmative action contributed to the fragmentation ...Robinson notes that despite the enormous strides African-Americans have made in the last 40 years, the problems of poor blacks remain more intractable than ever ..." - Publishers Weekly. Free admission. The Northwest African American Museum is at 2300 South Massachusetts. For more information on this evening, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600 or see www.naamnw.org.