Audio/Video & Print Interviews
At WDET on “Detroit Today” discussing Confederate monuments
Finding Freedom, American History Tellers, September 2022
Teaching Uncomfortable History And Overlooked Stories Of Black Americans Inside Appalachia, Inside Appalachia podcast, March 2022
Reconstructed: The Book of Trayvon, from MSNBC’s Into America podcast, February 2022
Reconstructed: Keep the Faith, Baby, from MSNBC’s Into America podcast, February 2022
Malcolm X Was From Michigan, So Why Isn’t He Remembered with Abundance? Stateside, Michigan Radio, February 2022
The legacy of Reconstruction reverberates. So why aren’t students learning about it?, 1a, WAMU, February 2022
“‘Black Skin Was a Death Warrant’: How the East St. Louis Race Massacre was an Omen for Racial Violence to Come,” Bayeté Ross Smith’s “Red Summers” video series for The Guardian, December 2021
The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Historically Speaking: Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies, October 2021
Learning for Justice’s Teaching Hard History “Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resistance,” October 26, 2021
History Unplugged, “How Ex-Slaves Built New Lives for Themselves – and America – After the Civil War,” August 2021
KPFK’s Freedom Now with Gerald Horne, August 2021
Democracy Works: The Long Road to Multi-racial Democracy
New Podcast “Seizing Freedom” Brings Black Americans’ Civil War Stories To Life, WDET’s Detroit Today, February 2021
The United States of Anxiety: New Hopes, Old Fears January 2021
Capitol attack conjures American legacy of racial violence ABC News January 2021
“What the Capital Riot Says About America” VPM Media January 2021
“Storming the U.S. Capitol may be new to Americans, but the violence is a familiar theme” Philadelphia Inquirer January 2021
The Aftermath, WRVO Public Media’s ‘The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America,’ November 2020
The Cotton Empire and The Second Revolution, Scene on Radio’s The Land That Has Never Been Yet, 2020
As a Weapon, KCRW’s Nocturne, November 13, 2019
Respectfully Yours, Gainer Atkins, in Reflections on Darkness. May 25, 2018
NPR On Point, Alabama Museum Opens in Remembrance of Lynching Victims. April 20, 2018
WMUK’s West Southwest, No, Not You. December 21, 2017
WKAR’s Current State, No, Not You. Dec 16, 2017
How Should We Deal with Monuments to Deeply Flawed Historical Figures? WDET “Detroit Today”
“Why Tyranny Happened” Slate Academy Podcast on Reconstruction
Q & A for America’s Civil War Museum Foundry Series: Combat, Racial Violence, and Resilience
‘The Difference Ten Miles Makes’ in A More Perfect Union?: The Reconstruction Era, interview on Backstory podcast, 2017.
Radical Teacher Interview on the #CharlestonSyllabus
Appearances
NEH Summer Institute at UIC, July 2017
Session on Lynching during the Gilded Age & Progressive Era
“When the Men Came,” Lynchburg College, April 2017
“Never Get Over It,” American Civil War Museum, Richmond May 2017
Keisha Blain, Chad Williams, and I at the College of Charleston’s wonderful Avery Research Center
Keisha Blain, Chad Williams, and I at the Charleston Syllabus Symposium at the University of Georgia September 2016
Charleston Syllabus and the 2016 election, College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center, November 2016
CharlestonSyllabus Symposium, University of Georgia, September 2016
Kidada E. Williams 