Yohuru Williams
Yohuru Williams is Associate Professor of History and Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University. He received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1998. He is also the Chief Historian for the Jackie Robinson Foundation and Museum in NYC.
Dr. Williams is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven (Blackwell, 2006) and Teaching beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies (Corwin Press, 2008) and the editor of A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1865 to the Present Documents and Essays (Kendall Hunt, 2002). He is the co-editor of In Search of the Black Panther Party, New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Duke, 2006), and Liberated Territory: Toward a Local History of the Black Panther Party (Duke, 2008). He also served as general editor for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's 2002 and 2003 Black History Month publications, The Color Line Revisited (Tapestry Press, 2002) and The Souls of Black Folks: Centennial Reflections (Africa World Press, 2003). Dr. Williams served as an advisor and contributor to the popular civil rights reader Putting the Movement back into teaching Civil Rights.
Dr. Williams has appeared on a variety of local and national radio and television programs most notably EBR Today, Fox Business News, CSPAN, Fresh Outlook, and NPR and is regular political commentator on the Cliff Kelly Show on WVON, Chicago.
Dr. Williams's scholarly articles have appeared in The OAH Magazine of History, Insights on Law and Policy, The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, Pennsylvania History, Delaware History, and the Black History Bulletin. Dr. Williams is also presently finishing a single authored book entitled Six Degrees of Segregation: Lynching, Capital Punishment, and Jim Crow Justice 1865-1930.
Dr. Williams is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven (Blackwell, 2006) and Teaching beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies (Corwin Press, 2008) and the editor of A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1865 to the Present Documents and Essays (Kendall Hunt, 2002). He is the co-editor of In Search of the Black Panther Party, New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Duke, 2006), and Liberated Territory: Toward a Local History of the Black Panther Party (Duke, 2008). He also served as general editor for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's 2002 and 2003 Black History Month publications, The Color Line Revisited (Tapestry Press, 2002) and The Souls of Black Folks: Centennial Reflections (Africa World Press, 2003). Dr. Williams served as an advisor and contributor to the popular civil rights reader Putting the Movement back into teaching Civil Rights.
Dr. Williams has appeared on a variety of local and national radio and television programs most notably EBR Today, Fox Business News, CSPAN, Fresh Outlook, and NPR and is regular political commentator on the Cliff Kelly Show on WVON, Chicago.
Dr. Williams's scholarly articles have appeared in The OAH Magazine of History, Insights on Law and Policy, The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, Pennsylvania History, Delaware History, and the Black History Bulletin. Dr. Williams is also presently finishing a single authored book entitled Six Degrees of Segregation: Lynching, Capital Punishment, and Jim Crow Justice 1865-1930.