Edward Williams

Bio

Edward Williams is currently a 3L at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a 2009 Teach For America Atlanta Corps Member. He graduated from Howard University in 2009 with a BBA in International Business and Finance with honors. He has interned at JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch in their investment banking/sales and trading divisions, and was a 2010 Teach For America Policy and Advocacy Leadership (PALI) Fellow at the National Council on Teacher Quality in Washington, DC. Edward is originally from Savannah, GA.
Jordan Davis Was Killed Because of America's Fear of Young Black Men
By Edward Williams
In November 2012, Michael Dunn, a 47-year-old white male stopped at a local gas station in Jacksonville, Fla. with his then-fiancée. When he pulled up at the gas station parking lot, he parked next to a car full of young, black male teens playing…
Black Gay Dads Shock the Internet by Being Normal
By Edward Williams
This picture of two black, gay fathers preparing their daughters for school one morning has been making its rounds on the Internet over the past few days. Along with the picture was the following caption: Being fathers is getting our daughters up at…
Harry Reid's 'Nuclear Option' is Exactly What the Founding Fathers Had in Mind
By Edward Williams
Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took up a debate to strike down filibuster rules that block presidential nominations. Here's a quick breakdown of how we got here, and why it matters for democracy: The U.S. Constitution Says So The United…
Here's What I Say to My Fellow Black, Gay Men
By Edward Williams
Today is National Coming Out Day, an awareness day established to celebrate the lives and experiences of members of the LGBT community living out and proud. The liberal and gay communities are celebrating, but in the midst of the celebration at…
Civil Rights March: The One Part Of It That No One Remembers
By Edward Williams
Supermarketnews.com - The Industry's Weekly Newspaper Martin Luther King would have been dismayed by the graph above, showing that 15% of all Americans live below the poverty line. But it seems that because most Americans have only listened to the…
George Zimmerman Jury to Black Men in America: You're Second-Class Citizens
By Edward Williams
In W.E.B. DuBois' iconic work The Souls of Black Folk, he wrote the following: "BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.…
Supreme Court Voting Rights Act: Landmark Civil Rights Law Gutted in 5-4 Decision
By Edward Williams
Today, the Supreme Court gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act and made a clear declaration that the court is no longer interested in what it views as racial issues of the past. The Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder was a challenge to…
Fisher v. University of Texas: Supreme Court Calls Halftime in the Affirmative Action Match
By Edward Williams
On Monday, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas ,finding that the the Fifth Circuit did not accurately apply strict scrutiny in the case. Seven justices joined the court in its decision to push the decision back down…
Don Lemon to Millennials: "Get Off My Lawn"
By Edward Williams
During a news segment on the Edward Snowden NSA leak, Don Lemon and guests turned to ridiculous stereotyping of millennials. Here is how the situation unfolded: Guest 1: And Don, Tom’s really correct about this sense of entitlement that many of…
Fisher v. University Of Texas: SCOTUS Decisions Will Be a Turning Point For Our Nation
By Edward Williams
In the next few weeks (and as early as Monday), the Supreme Court will release its decision in Fisher v. University of Texas. The Fisher case is the latest case in a long line of affirmative action cases before the Supreme Court. More details about…