Williams, Yohuru R.

Yohuru Rashied Williams is an associate professor of history at Fairfield University and the vice president for history education of the American Institute for History Education. He is the author of "Black Politics/White Power; "editor of "A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1865 to the Present"; and coeditor of "In Search of the Black Panther "and "Liberated"" Territory"" Toward A Local History of the Black Panther Party."

Williams began his educational career as a high school history teacher in Washington, DC, where he first began to develop many of the ideas included in Te...