Yohuru Williams is a professor of history and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. A regular contributor to a variety of media programming on CNN and History, he is the author of numerous books, including Teaching US History Beyond the Textbook; Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter; and More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He lives in Minnesota.
Michael G. Long is the author or editor of several books on Bayard Rustin, nonviolent protests, and civil rights history, including Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter and More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. His commentary about civil rights has appeared in many national media outlets such as the Afro, the Los Angeles Times, and ESPN. He lives in Pennsylvania.
Yohuru Williams is a professor of history and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. A regular contributor to a variety of media programming on CNN and History, he is the author of numerous books, including
Teaching US History Beyond the Textbook,
Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter, and
More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The former chief historian of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, he appeared in Ken Burns’s
Jackie Robinson and was one of the hosts of
Sound Smart, the History Channel’s popular YouTube program. His educational videos on civil rights, social movements, and other historic events have garnered over 1 million views. He lives in Minnesota.
Michael G. Long is the author or editor of several books on politics, nonviolent protests, and civil rights history, including
Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter;
More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom;
Martin Luther King, Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement; and
Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall. His commentary about civil rights has appeared in many national media outlets such as the
Afro, the
Los Angeles Times, and ESPN. Long also served as an expert historian for Ken Burns's documentary on Jackie Robinson. He lives in Pennsylvania.