Adrian Walker is an African American metro columnist for the Boston Globe

The Boston Globe

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. His column appears in the City & Region section of the Globe on Mondays and Thursdays.

He contributed to the Boston Globe's coverage of the clergy sexual abuse scandal

Roman Catholic sex abuse cases

The Catholic sex abuse cases are a series of convictions, trials and ongoing investigations into allegations of sex crimes committed by Catholic priests and members of religious orders. These cases began receiving public attention beginning in the mid-1980s...

, for which the Globe won the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 for Public Service in 2003. On March 2, 2008, he was arrested on charges of driving under the influence.

Walker began his career at The Miami News

The Miami News

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, which folded in 1988.

External links

• http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1077595"Boston Globe scribe nabbed on OUI charge"
• A collection of Adrian Walker's columns and other info