Colbert I. King

Colbert Isaiah King (born September 20, 1939) is an American columnist for The Washington Post and the deputy editor of the Post 's editorial page. In 2003, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. On 20 June 2025, King announced that he would be retiring from The Washington Post in September 2025.

Early life King was born to Amelia Colbert King and Isaiah King III and grew up in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C. He attended Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School, Francis Junior High School, and Paul Laurence Dunbar High School. At Dunbar, he was a member of JROTC as well as the school's championship drill team.

He was a regular television panelist on the weekly political discussion show Inside Washington until the show ceased production in December 2013.

Awards In 2003, King won the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary "for his against-the-grain columns that speak to people in power with ferocity and wisdom". who served as Commissioner of the U.S. Social Security Administration under President George H.W. Bush. They met in the late 1950s at Howard University and married on July 3, 1961,