A.T. McWILLIAMS
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Former EdTech Startup COO
& Google Program Lead
Politics, Technology and Culture Writer
and Pushcart Prize Nominated Poet
REPORTING, ESSAYS & OP-EDS
Slate: For Black Americans, Using Social Media Means Risking PTSD
Slate: Georgia Can Honor Ahmaud Arbery by Repealing Its Horrible Citizen’s Arrest Statute
The Hill: How Cory Booker's Failed Campaign Spurred Progress for Racial Justice
Washington Post: The case for reparations begins with people like my great-great grandparents
VICE: 'Native Son' Proves How Little Has Changed for Black People in America
The Atlantic: Native Son Gets the James Baldwin Edit
Thrillist: How 'If Beale Street Could Talk' Shows the Power of Black Portraiture
Slate: Kamala Harris Is Going to Need a Better Answer for Questions About Her Prosecutorial Record
Slate: A Facebook Executive Moved to London to Protect Her Son From Police Brutality. Then Her Brother Was Tased to Death by Police.
The New Yorker: What Antwon Rose's Poetry Tells Us About Being Black in America
The Guardian: Sorry to Bother You, black Americans and the power and peril of code-switching
Complex: The Power of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize Win
Mic: Could this California bill start the next evolution of police reform?
Slate: On Being Black in the White Space of Yale.
Huffington Post: Lynching Didn't Disappear. It Just Evolved.
Quartz: Martin Luther King Jr.'s final, lesser-known campaign is more relevant than ever
Blavity: Why We Vote: A Letter to My Nephew
Huffington Post: A Black Passenger Saved My Flight from an Emergency Landing. Here's Why that Matters
Quartz: The Obamas’ stunning portraits are a testament to the importance of identity politics
Huffington Post: The Grammys’ Relationship With Hip-Hop Is America’s Relationship With Blackness
Huffington Post: A Letter To My Nephew, Born on Election Night
A.T. was recently named a finalist in the Write Bloody book publishing contest and the Gold Line Press chapbook contest.
POETRY
Triquarterly Review: American Math
The Missouri Review: What You Never Had (Poem of the Week selection)
Interim Poetics: arrest the cops, what do you want to be for halloween, mr. wilson said
Southern Humanities Review: Affirmative Action Jackson (Print, Winter 2019)
Prelude Magazine: Hear Ye, Hear Ye (Print, Winter 2018)
Main Street Mag: Hip-Hop, A Still Life (Print, Spring 2018)
Main Street Mag: A Gyspy, Cab (Print, Spring 2018)
Storyscape Journal: Buzzfeed Bible
Radius Literary Magazine: Without Sun (2016 Pushcart Prize nominee)
Blunderbuss Magazine: asbestos
Blunderbuss Magazine: mouthfuls
Juked Journal: A Spade, A Spade