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American Ghosts: Black History, Biden, Adams and Promised Peril to Black New York

New York City and its political landscape is at the uniquely American nexus of amnesia, violence, and sensationalism: the battlefield of…

5 min readFeb 2, 2022

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American Ghosts: Black History, Biden, Adams and Promised Peril to Black New York

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Jawanza James Williams

American Dissonance: An Albatross of the Original Contradiction

Jawanza James Williams is an organizer and PhD student in the Political Science Department at CUNY Graduate Center

11 min readMay 31, 2023

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American Dissonance: An Albatross of the Original Contradiction

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Jawanza James Williams

An Analysis of the Racist Origins of U.S.

Jawanza James Williams is an organizer and PhD student in the Political Science Department at CUNY Graduate Center

14 min readMay 30, 2023

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An Analysis of the Racist Origins of U.S.

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Jawanza James Williams

Synopsis and Reflection on 2023 State of the Union

President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union address focused primarily on reflecting on the work the Biden Administration has done with the…

6 min readFeb 10, 2023

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Synopsis and Reflection on 2023 State of the Union

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Jawanza James Williams

LaSalle’s Failed Confirmation and The Specter of Intraparty Conflict

Politics in New York State are mired in the complexities of Democratic party-rule amid an often contentious spectrum of social and economic…

5 min readFeb 3, 2023

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LaSalle’s Failed Confirmation and The Specter of Intraparty Conflict

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Jawanza James Williams

Father Trump: The Fascist Saint

What do we do when our most beloved saint is a right-wing, capitalist, White Nationalist, near-avowed fascist Donald Trump?

6 min readOct 27, 2022

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Father Trump: The Fascist Saint

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Jawanza James Williams

Anticipated Political Backlash: Lessons Learned from Neoliberal Antagonisms to Defund the Police…

The racial reckoning in the United States during the uprisings of 2020, amid a global pandemic that exposed and exacerbated the…

7 min readDec 16, 2021

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Activists at #OccupyCityHall watch NYC Council Budget Negotiations

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Jawanza James Williams

Black Spring: Severed Spines, Bullet Holes, and the Flames of Unvoiced Trepidation

Originally written April 30th 2015

4 min readDec 14, 2021

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Black Spring: Severed Spines, Bullet Holes, and the Flames of Unvoiced Trepidation

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Jawanza James Williams

I Owe this to Sandra: The Annihilating Horror of a Modern American Lynching

Originally written on Monday, December 21, 2015

2 min readDec 14, 2021

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Jawanza James Williams

Aftermath: The Collective Trauma of Modern American Lynchings

Originally written on Thursday, July 7 2016

4 min readDec 14, 2021

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Jawanza James Williams

Jawanza James Williams

I am a radical Black, Queer, Abolitionist, Socialist, organizer engaged in social critique, local, and state politics in New York.

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