Media:
Dr. Williams is a research historian on this Documentary Project: “My Buddy: The WWII 369th Documentary Project”, Hawaii News Now story on the project March 6, 2019
Dr. Williams on a Panel with Monmouth Faculty: Beatles Symposium, West Long Branch, New Jersey, 2014.
Dr. Williams interviewed by Mixed Chicks Chat with Heidi Durrow and Fanshen Cox, Episode 257, May 23, 2012
Podcasts Shows:
Dr. Williams is the host of two podcast shows:
This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture
New Books Network Intellectual History Channel
Recent Public Presentations:
African American Women Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement Montclair Public Library, February 14, 2023
Eyes on the Jersey Shore WOBM Interview Black History Month 92.7 FM
Strong Inspirations Interview Black Women and Civil Rights 2022
Drew Talks at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey 2022
Invited Paper, “The Green Movement as a Woman’s Movement in the Writings and Work of Wangari Mathai and Grace Lee Boggs,” Annual Conference of the African American Intellectual History Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 23-25 March, 2019.
Work in Progress Presentation, “Laboratory of Democracy: Black Students at Columbia University before 1954,” Department of History and Anthropology’s Works in Progress Seminar Series, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, 23 January, 2019.
Invited Paper, “Sounding the Trumpet of Democracy: Black Women Intellectuals and the Great War,” at the 103rd Annual Meeting and Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Marriott Hotel in Indianapolis, Indiana, 3-8 October, 2018.
Invited Paper, “Yep, You Done Taken My Blues and Gone”: African American Music, the Beatles, and Whiteness, The Beatles’ The WHITE ALBUM: An International Symposium, at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, 9-11, November, 2018.
Invited Roundtable Participant, “Marion Thompson Wright and New Perspectives on Black Intellectuals in the Early Civil Rights Movement, 1915-1954,” African American Intellectual History Society Special Panel at the Tenth Annual Conference of The Society for U.S. Intellectual History at the historic Warick Allerton Hotel in Chicago Illinois, 8-11 November, 2018.
Invited Paper, “Black Woman Freedom Writer: The Life of and Thought of Anna Arnold Hedgeman,” Annual Conference of the African American Intellectual History Society, Brandeis University, Boston, Massachusetts, 21-23, March, 2018.
Invited Paper, “Outraged Mother: Anna Arnold Hedgeman and the Civil Rights Movement in the North,” Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Hilton Netherlands Plaza Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, 26-30, September, 2017.
Invited Paper, “Didn’t Not Mary Preach the Risen Savior”: African American Women as Prophetesses,” The Feminine Mystic Conference, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA, 9 June, 2017.
Invited Paper, “Going Home: The 369th and Harlem as an Identity-Making Space,” Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region Annual Conference, Columbia University, New York, New York, 28-29 April, 2017.
Invited Presentation, “African American Women and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey,” Women’s History Month Program, Union County College, 30 March 2017.
Paper, “People’s Power: Ernest Thompson, Black Labor-Left Coalition Politics, and the Civil Rights Movement in the North,” Second Annual Conference of the African American Intellectual History Society, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 24-26 March 2017.
Invited Paper, “All that I am or Hope to Be”: Marion Thompson Wright and New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement,” African American Intellectual History Society First Annual Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 10-11 March 2016.
Invited Paper, “Now is the Time to Plan for Your Future: Sara Spencer Washington and the Black Freedom Struggle in New Jersey, 1913-1953,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Centennial Annual Meeting and Conference, Atlanta, Georgia 23-27, September 2015.
Invited Paper, “A Young Colored Girl’s Haven from Prejudice: The Montclair YWCA and the Progressive History of the Y Movement in World History,” The Northeastern History Graduate Student Association’s 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, 21-22, March 2015.
Invited Paper, “Of Pathologies and Loyalties: The Idea of Race and the Emergence of the Prison Industrial Complex in a Cold War Context, (1947-1994),” The 7th Annual American Political History Graduate Conference: Americans and War, Boston University American Political History Institute, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, 20-21, March, 2015.
Invited Paper, “A Young Colored Girl’s Haven from Prejudice: The Montclair YWCA and the Black Intelligentsia in North Jersey, 1912-1946,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Annual Conference, Memphis, Tennessee, 24-28 September 2014.
Invited Paper, “The Georgia of the North: Black Professionals and the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey,” New England Historical Association Annual Conference, Springfield College, Springfield, Massachusetts, 25-26 April 2014.
Invited Paper, “Call Us By Our Name:” Black Women Claiming Voice and the Divine in American History and Culture,” Ways of Knowing Conference at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 25-26 October 2013.
Invited Paper, “The Identity of an American President and Cosmopolitanism,” International Journal of Arts & Sciences Conference for Academic Disciplines, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 26-30 May 2013.
Journalistic Writings:
“Accidental Feminist: Stormy Daniels and Ending the Sound of Silence,” Daring Woman Magazine, March 27, 2018,
“How Trump Became a “Thug Life” Idol,” Huffpost, July 7, 2017. Found at:
“Stop Shooting Us!”: African Americans and the Police Powers of the State in Perspective, The Huffington Post, September 24, 2016.
“Donald Trump’s Art of Politics and White Racial Anxiety in Contemporary America,” The Huffington Post, September 22, 2016.
“Race, Religion, and Respectability in Oprah’s Greenleaf,” The Huffington Post, September 11, 2016
“African Americans and Armed Resistance,” The Huffington Post, September 4, 2016
“Race, Class, and Gender in O.J. Made in America,” The Huffington Post, June 28, 2016
“Dead Presidents: History, Memory, and the Legacies of Once Great Men,” The Huffington Post, June 27, 2017
“White Out at the Oscars Again: Institutional Racism and Racial Anxiety in Contemporary U.S. Society,” The Huffington Post, February 26, 2016
“The Baltimore Uprising and the Civil Rights Movement of the Millennial Generation,” The Huffington Post, May 6, 2015
“The Civil Rights Movement of the Millennial Generation Has Begun,” Op-Ed in the Star Ledger, April 19, 2015
“Everything Old is New Again”: Race and Gender Stereotypes in Fox’s ‘Empire’”, The Huffington Post, March 3, 2015
“Oscar’s Snub of Ava DuVernay: A Pattern of Overlooking Black Women,” The Huffington Post, February 18, 2015