Opening General Session with NPR’s Juan Williams

Juan Williams


Juan Williams, one of America's leading journalists, is a senior correspondent for National Public Radio's “Morning Edition” as well as a contributing political analyst for the Fox News channel. He is the author of the critically acclaimed biography, Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary and of the nonfiction bestseller Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965, the companion volume to the critically acclaimed television series. More recently, This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience appeared in February 2003. In 2004, 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.

During his 21-year career at The Washington Post, Williams served as an editorial writer, op-ed columnist, and White House reporter. He has won an Emmy award for TV documentary writing and won widespread critical acclaim for a series of documentaries including Politics - The New Black Power. Articles by Williams have appeared in magazines ranging from Newsweek, Fortune, and the Atlantic Monthly to Ebony, Gentlemen's Quarterly, and the New Republic.

 

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