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About Dr. Zachery Williams
I am an Adjunct Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies at LSU. I am the author of In Search of the Talented Tenth: Howard University Public Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race, 1926-1970 published by University of Missouri Press (2009) and Africana Cultures and Policy Studies: Scholarship and the Transformation of Public Policy (2009). In 2003, I co-founded the Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute, a policy research group focused on connecting African, African American, and Africana Studies to local, regional, national, and global public policy matters.
NBN Episodes hosted by Zachery:
February 28, 2026
Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure
Black Women's Bodily Autonomy, Sexual Freedom, and Pleasure: Explorations of the Hot Girl Movement (Routledge, 2025) explores scholarship, practice, a…
February 6, 2026
The Moving Word
In the 1930s and 1940s, amid intensifying anticolonial activism across the British Empire, dozens of new West African and Caribbean newspapers printed…
September 23, 2025
The Time is Always Now
Nick Bromell is the author of By the Sweat of the Brow: Labor and Literature in Antebellum American Culture and Tomorrow Never Knows: Rock and Psyched…
September 21, 2025
The Plunder of Black America
Dr. J Calvin Schermerhorn is a professor of history in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His…
August 26, 2025
Spell Freedom
Elaine Weiss, acclaimed author of The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, follows that magisterial work with a work of equal scholarly sign…
August 25, 2025
The Path to Paralysis
Much has been written about political polarisation in the United States, but no one has examined it through the lens of recent U.S. history. There is …
August 19, 2025
Unlearning the Hush
In Unlearning the Hush: Oral Histories of Black Female Educators in Mississippi in the Civil Rights Era (University of Illinois Press, 2025), Dr. Mar…
August 18, 2025
Racial Resentment in the Political Mind
In Racial Resentment in the Political Mind, Darren W. Davis and David C. Wilson challenge the commonly held notion that all racial negativity, disagre…
August 1, 2025
Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique
Both new and seasoned psychotherapists wrestle with the relationship between psychological distress and inequality across race, class, gender, and sex…
July 29, 2025
Against!
Against! is the first book-length study of Afro-Caribbean and African immigrant and second-generation writing in the United States. In it, Asha Jeffer…
July 7, 2025
Her Stories
Since the debut of These Are My Children in 1949, the daytime television soap opera has been foundational to the history of the medium as an economic,…