Juan Williams 

This site is intended to serve as a guide to the works of Juan Williams with special emphasis on books and other materials found in the STCC Library. This guide was created to help promote Juan Williams visit to Springfield Technical Community College on February 10, 2009.

The following is adapted from the NPR Biography available here.

Juan Williams is an Emmy winning documentarian, one of America's leading journalists, and a former Washington Post reporter and Op-Ed columnist. He is a highly regarded news analyst, appearing regularly on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and Day to Day newsmagazines

From 2000-2001, Williams hosted NPR's national call-in show Talk of the Nation, which he brought cities and towns across America for monthly radio "town hall" meetings before live audiences. These town hall meetings were a part of "The Changing Face of America," Williams is the author of the critically acclaimed biography Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (available in the STCC Library,) Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, also available here. This text was also the basis for the critically acclaimed television series of the same name (available at the STCC Library).

Another work became the basis of This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience is available in the library as a six-part video series.

Williams became involved with AARP's Voices of Civil Rights project, leading a veteran team of reporters and editors in the production of My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience. Read the eyewitness accounts of some 50 activists who served as foot soldiers and field generals in the Civil Rights Movement. In Enough, Williams makes the case that while there is still racism, it is way past time for black Americans to open their eyes to the "culture of failure" that exists within their community.

Articles by Williams have appeared in magazines ranging from Newsweek, Fortune, and The Atlantic Monthly to Ebony, Gentlemen's Quarterly, and The New Republic. Williams continues to be a contributing political analyst for the Fox News Channel and a regular panelist on Fox News Sunday. He has also appeared on numerous television programs, including Nightline, Washington Week in Review, and Oprah. A graduate of Haverford College, Williams received a B.A. in philosophy in 1976. Currently, he sits on a number of boards, including the Haverford College Board of Trustees, the Aspen Institute of Communications and Society Program, Washington Journalism Center and the New York Civil Rights Coalition.

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