Eric Black is an American journalist based in Minnesota.
He was a longtime reporter for the Minnesota Star Tribune newspaper, and has also been a Twin Cities blogger. He is currently a columnist for online newspaper MinnPost, primarily writing about politics and the historical background of current issues.
Black is the author of a book, Parallel Realities: A Jewish-Arab History of Israel/Palestine. It gives an overview of the two parties of the conflict, with arguments supporting why either side may be in the right, as well as criticizing them. The book also gives a summary of the historical events leading up to the modern day Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In late 2012 Black wrote a multi-part series of columns about the U.S. Constitution entitled "Imperfect Union".
In 2017 the national Society of Professional Journalists presented Black with a Sigma Delta Chi Award for online column writing.