Robert Samuels is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
[1] As an undergraduate, he was the editor of BlackBoard, the black student magazine, but left the job to become the editor-in-chief of The Daily Northwestern.
[2] After working at an internship at The Washington Post, he took a full-time job as a staff writer at The Miami Herald.
In February 2011, he returned to the staff at The Post, where he developed a reputation for doing on-the-ground stories about race, politics and the changing American identity.
[3] With Toluse Olorunnipa, he is the co-author of His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, a 2022 biography about George Floyd.