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Chad Williams is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. He is author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (2011), which received the Liberty Legacy Award from the Organization of American Historians and the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for Military History. He is co-editor of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence (2016) and Major Problems in African American History, second edition (2017). He has received fellowships from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Ford Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He is currently completing a study of W.E.B. Du Bois and World War I, to be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Heather Andrea Williams is Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and a professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She was previously a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (2005), Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (2012), and American Slavery: A Very Short Introduction (2014). She has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. She is currently editing a documentary film about Jamaicans who migrated to the United States in the 1950s and ’60s and is writing a book about violence in the antebellum South. She teaches courses on African American history with an emphasis on slavery and the aftermath of the American Civil War.
Phillip B. Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois, and is the author of the poetry collection Thief in the Interior (2016), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award. He is a recipient of a 2017 Whiting Award and a 2020 Radcliffe Fellowship. He currently teaches at Bennington College and Randolph College’s low-residency MFA.
Raquel Willis is a Black transgender activist, award-winning writer, and media strategist dedicated to elevating the dignity of marginalized people, particularly Black transgender people. She is the director of communications for the Ms. Foundation, the former executive editor of Out magazine, and a former national organizer for Transgender Law Center (TLC). In 2018 she founded Black Trans Circles, a project of TLC focused on developing the leadership of Black trans women in the South and Midwest by creating healing justice spaces to work through oppression-based trauma and by incubating community organizing efforts to address anti-trans murder and violence. During her time at Out, she published the Trans Obituaries Project to highlight the epidemic of violence against trans women of color and developed a community-sourced thirteen-point framework to end the epidemic. This project won a GLAAD Media Award. Willis is a thought leader on gender, race, and intersectionality. She’s experienced in online publications, organizing marginalized communities for social change, and nonprofit media strategy and public speaking while using digital activism as a major tool of resistance and liberation. She will be releasing The Risk It Takes to Bloom, her debut essay collection about her coming of identity and activism, with St. Martin’s Press in 2021.
Kai Wright is host and managing editor of WNYC’s Narrative Unit. He hosts the podcast The United States of Anxiety, and is the former host of There Goes the Neighborhood (2017–19), The Stakes (2019), and the Dupont Award–winning Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice (2018). Before joining WNYC, Wright was an editor and columnist for The Nation, editorial director of Colorlines, and a longtime fellow of Type Investigations. He is the author, most recently, of Drifting toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York (2008).
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BY IBRAM X. KENDI
Be Antiracist
Antiracist Baby
Stamped
How to Be an Antiracist
Stamped from the Beginning
The Black Campus Movement
BY KEISHA N. BLAIN
Until I Am Free
Set the World on Fire
About the Editors
Ibram X. Kendi is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, and the founding director of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. He is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a CBS News Racial Justice contributor. He is the author of many books, including Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016), which won the National Book Award for nonfiction; and three #1 New York Times bestsellers, How to Be an Antiracist (2019); Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (2020), co-authored with Jason Reynolds; and Antiracist Baby (2020), illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky. In 2020 Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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