Columnist @RTDNEWS. @RNPA_union. @VAUnion1865 @NorthwesternU @MedillSchool. 2000 Harvard University Nieman Fellow. 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary.
Richmond, VA
Joined August 2009
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Still time to register for Dec. 11 free virtual seminar w/ an all-star lineup of speakers! Vanderbilt Sports & Society & the Rev. James Lawson Institute for the Study of Nonviolent Movements partner for a discussion of sports, activism, platforms & power
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Michael Paul Williams retweeted
“#JFK struggled to negotiate the rise of #BlackActivism, passing #CivilRights legislation & losing the South,” says #leadershipstudies prof Julian Hayter via @RTDMPW's column on #JohnFKennedy's legacy 60 years after his assassination. @URNews2use @RTDNews sl.richmond.edu/nU
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
.@RTDMPW column: “@GovernorVa’s clearly banking on ‘Parents Matter’ sloganeering to make him a national darling of the GOP. But the entire movement is built on a lie.” richmond.com/opinion/columni…
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
Important from @RTDMPW - and not just because he quotes me🤪 ‘Teachers have always welcomed parents as key in their children’s education…notion that we’re somehow pitting parents against teachers is absolutely antithetical to student success.” richmond.com/opinion/columni…
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
#Leadershipstudies professor and historian Julian Hayter weighs in on the debate about #teaching the #history of #race and #racism in American #PublicSchools. #K12 #BlackHistory #censorship @RTDMPW @RTDOpinions @URNews2Use sl.richmond.edu/mp
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
“I really have a problem with a mayor and City Council that says for developers to get what they need, they can come to the bargaining table and get millions of our money…but for South Side to get child care they have to go to the blackjack table.” richmond.com/opinion/columni…
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
Come thruuuuu @RTDMPW Make it make sense shawty.
“Hickory Hill lies in a documented heat island that hastens illness and shortens life spans. The fire facility and burn tower provide no intrinsic value to a neighborhood that needs cleaner air and greener spaces — not smoke and mirrors.” 🔥 @RTDMPW
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Michael Paul Williams retweeted
“Hickory Hill lies in a documented heat island that hastens illness and shortens life spans. The fire facility and burn tower provide no intrinsic value to a neighborhood that needs cleaner air and greener spaces — not smoke and mirrors.” 🔥 @RTDMPW
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Michael Paul Williams retweeted
Thrilled for the city to hire its first urban forester! This is the success of collective advocacy and elected officials prioritizing climate action.
Shoutout to @reforestrva, @SierraClubVirg1 and @SouthsideReleaf for leading this effort.
We’re happy to announce and introduce Michael Webb as the City’s first Urban Forester! Michael will work with the community and stakeholders to develop the City’s Urban Forestry Master Plan. We’re excited to have him join our team. Get more details: tinyurl.com/4kyb7298 #1RVA
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
The Youngkin administration has three times stripped the state health department website of information: on abortion, sexual health and now LGBTQ+ youth resources.
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Michael Paul Williams retweeted
Always an honor to have a critical conversation on religion, politics, and American democracy with @PulitzerPrizes winning columist @RTDMPW. "Pat Robertson transformed American religion and politics for the worse" | richmond.com/opinion/columni… via @RTDOpinions
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
Latest @RTDMPW Williams column: @UVA's tracking of political ideology is 'McCarthyite' richmond.com/opinion/columni…
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
I appreciated this evening’s thoughtful discussion about the common grounds of experience among the Black and Jewish Communities. Thank you to Initiatives of Change and the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond for hosting such an excellent panel conversation.
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
#HarryBelafonte "was more committed to the cause of civil rights than his own career development,” said #leadershipstudies prof Julian Hayter. A @RTDMPW column remembers the iconic singer, actor, & #civilrights activist, who died Tues. @RTDNEWS @URNews2Use sl.richmond.edu/iO
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
.@RTDMPW on @GovernorVa’s slowdown on restoring voting, civil rights to felons: “If incarceration is a form of penance, this about-face is a hardhearted posture for @GlennYoungkin… whose religious beliefs compelled him to found his own church.” richmond.com/opinion/columni…
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
Will be in Lynchburg this Thursday, 7 pm, at the Jones Memorial Library, talking monuments, memorials and memory with @RTDMPW >>
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Michael Paul Williams retweeted
I am making history, but fighting familiar fights. I spoke with @RTDMPW about historic firsts, my parents' stories, and the meaning of this moment.
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Michael Paul Williams retweeted
In a stunningly callous decision, last week members of a Rules subcommittee of VA’s House of Delegates killed a resolution to acknowledge and apologize for the state-sanctioned medical misuse of Black bodies in Virginia, a common practice in the 19th & 20th centuries. My latest:
COMMENTARY: Let me paraphrase how this message comes across to me, as a Black Virginian: “There are way too many instances of Black people’s human and civil rights being trampled in the dirt for us to acknowledge them all, so we won’t even try.” virginiamercury.com/2023/02/…
Michael Paul Williams retweeted
In the Va. Politics Insider from Team RTD: @mmartzrtd on WH ripping guv over menstrual search bill + 4th Dist. election preview; @charlottewords on abortion bills' demise; @DaveRess1 on amendments and budding alliances; + @RTDSchapiro; @RTDMPW + Trivia. richmond.com/newsletter-temp…