Yohuru Williams

Yohuru Williams is a professor of history at Fairfield University and author or co-author of several books on the civil rights and black power movements, including the forthcoming The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution (Nation Books, 2016).

The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution

The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution The Black Panthers’ Overlooked Revolution

Fifty years later, four women who helped build the party look back on the less-attention-grabbing part of its history.

Sep 22, 2016 / Feature / Yohuru Williams and Bryan Shih

Students Protest BLM

The Coming War on ‘Black Nationalists’ The Coming War on ‘Black Nationalists’

A caricature of black radicalism is becoming the pretext for aggressive policing of racial-justice activism. We’ve been here before.

Jul 20, 2016 / Yohuru Williams

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