He has made documentaries about the civil rights movement and the lives of African Americans in the United States.
It is a chronicle of the Journey of Reconciliation, the first Freedom Ride of whites and blacks traveling through the Upper South in 1947 to challenge segregation in the wake of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 ruling in Morgan v. Virginia.
He also covered the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal unfolding in that region and elsewhere.
[1] In April 2021, Robin Washington became the Forward’s new Editor-at-Large, a flagship position aimed at elevating and expanding diverse voices.
Washington is a co-founder, with Michelle Stein-Evers and Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr., of the National Conference of Black Jews, which formed in 1995.