This Week in Black History, Society, and Culture

In this first episode of season three, Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Dr. Pamela Scott-Johnson about her journey in higher education as an African American woman academic and administrator. Dr. Scott-Johnson is the first Black woman Provost of Monmouth University. She earned her M.A. and Ph. D. in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University; and her B.A. from Spelman Coll...

In this bonus episode for season two, Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Melissa Ziobro about African American Public history. Dr. Williams is an Assistant Professor of African American history at Monmouth University and Ziobro is a Specialist Professor in Public history at Monmouth University currently involved in several projects on African American history including the Julian Abele Pub...

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Max Adolf our Monmouth University student podcast editor. Max discusses his life at Monmouth as an advanced student and Music Industry major as well as race/diversity on campus. He also shares some tips on podcasting and provides us with some recommendations on podcast editing software. 

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Rev. Dr. Danielle Hunter of Bethel A.M.E. Church located in Asbury Park, New Jersey about the African American community in Asbury Park and the impact of COVID-19 on this population in the city. Williams is an Assistant Professor of African American history at Monmouth University and Director of the digital history project on Asbury P...

In this episode, Dr. Katherine J. Parkin is in conversation with Dr. Brenna Wynn Greer about her latest work on Black capitalism, media culture and civil rights. Dr. Parkin is the Jules Plangere, Jr. Endowed Chair in American History and Political Studies at Monmouth University and the author of Food is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) a...

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Dr. Anwar Uhuru about their experiences as African Americans in higher education. Williams is an Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and Anthropology at Monmouth University where she teaches courses in African American history, with research interests focused on African American and Black women’s intellectual h...

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. William is in conversation about the Duchess of Sussex, Harry Windsor and their recent interview with Oprah Winfrey with Drs. Zaneta Rago-Craft, Nicole Pulliam and Lacey Hunter. Rago-Craft is the inaugural Director of the Monmouth University Intercultural Center and Pulliam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Monmou...

Episode 9   In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams discusses African Americans in Asbury Park and the impact of COVID-19 on the Black community in the city with community activist Felicia Simmons. This is the second installment in a series on African Americans and the history of Asbury Park including some discussion of the coronavirus. Williams is an Assistant Professor of history at Monmouth Uni...

In this episode, Dr. Nicole Pulliam and Dr. Vernon Smith are in conversation with Will Nicholson about white supremacy and the imposter syndrome fallacy. Dr. Pulliam is an Associate Professor in Educational Counseling at Monmouth University and Vernon Smith is Graduate Program Director and an Assistant Professor of Educational Counseling at Monmouth University. Nicholson is a graduate student in E...

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams interviews Dr. Anne-Marie Angelo about the British Black Panther Party. Angelo is a Senior Lecturer in American history in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex. Her forthcoming book with the University of North Carolina Press is entitled Black Power on the Move: Migration, Internationalism, and the British and Israeli Black Pa...

In this episode, Dr. Maryanne Rhett discusses race and comics in world history with Trevor R. Getz. Dr. Rhett is a Professor of World History at Monmouth University where she is the Director of the Graduate Program in History. She is the author of Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1822 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Getz is a Professor of History in the Department of History at...

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams interviews Dr. Jonathan Daniel Wells about his new book The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War published by Bold Type Books in 2020. Wells is a Professor of History in the Department of Afro American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. This is a stunning book about a network of prominent New Yorke...

In this episode, Dr. Marie Mele discusses race and policing with Dr. Lorenzo Boyd. Dr. Mele is an Assistant Professor at Monmouth University in the Department of Criminal Justice and her research focus is on victimization and intimate partner violence. She also worked for the National Institute of Justice and the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office as a victim advocate. Dr. Boyd is a nationally reco...

In this episode, Dr. Walter D. Greason Dean Emeritus of the Honors School at Monmouth University, Associate Professor, and Chair of the Department of Educational Leadership interviews Grammy Award-winning composer Arturo O’Farrill about the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. The Afro Latin Jazz orchestra is a group led by O’Farrill that includes more than a dozen of the most notable Jazz musicians perform...

This is the first episode of a series of shows on Asbury Park and the impact of COVID-19 on the African American community in New Jersey. The series is part of a larger digital history project on African Americans in the history of Asbury Park, historically, a city with one of the largest Black populations in New Jersey called “Paradoxical Paradise: An African American Oral History and Mapping Pro...

In this inaugural episode of season two, Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Dr. Manuel Chavez, Lecturer in the Department of World Languages and Culture at Monmouth University, about his course Love, Life and Liberty and the philosophical contributions of Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Chavez is also the Director of the Philosophy Program at Monmouth. He uses King's important essay &...

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams, Assistant Professor of African American history at Monmouth University, is in conversation about Black women in STEM with Dr. Nikita Burrows, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, in the Department of Chemistry and Physics, at Monmouth University. Dr. Burrows is a chemist and her research focuses on chemistry education. She takes us through her journey as an in...

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams, Assistant Professor of African American history at Monmouth University, is in conversation with Dr. Shirley Crenshaw, a science professional with several years of experience teaching at the college level, about her life on the pin-up pageant circuit. The vast amount of scholarly literature on pageant culture in the African American experience tends to focus...

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams, Assistant Professor of African American history at Monmouth University, is in conversation with Dr. Karanja Keita Carroll, a social theorist, and lecturer in the Department of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College (CUNY), about Black political prisoners in the United States (U.S.). Carroll goes into some detail about his work as a scholar who takes a m...

In this episode, Dr. Anwar Uhuru interviews Dr. Zaneta Rago-Craft about equity, inclusion and diversity on college campuses. Uhuru is an Assistant Professor of African American Literature in the Department of English at Monmouth University with research interests in Afro-Diaspora literature, critical race theory, and gender/sexuality theory. Rago-Craft is the Director of the Monmouth University In...

In this episode, Monmouth University professors Hettie V. Williams, Walter D. Greason, and Anwar Uhuru discuss race and the U.S. presidential election of 2020. Hettie V. Williams is an Assistant Professor of African American History, Walter D. Greason is an Associate Professor, and Emeritus Dean of the Monmouth University Honor’s School, and Dr. Anwar Uhuru is an Assistant Professor of African Ame...

In this episode, Dr. David Julius Ford, Assistant Professor in the Department of Professional Counseling at Monmouth University, is in conversation with Dr. Rufus Tony Spann, Assistant Professor in the School Counseling Program at the University of Southern California and Dr. Don Trahan, an equity, diversity and inclusion specialist, about racism amid the backdrop of COVID-19. Ford is a Licensed C...

In this episode, Dr. Katherine Parkin, Professor of History at Monmouth University interviews Dr. Traci Parker, Associate Professor in the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst.  Parker is a scholar of women’s history, racism, class, labor, capitalism, and consumer culture.  Lizabeth Cohen called her first book, Department Stores and the Bla...

In this episode, Hettie V. Williams discuses the Black and African American influence on the Beatles with Dr. Kenneth A. Womack one of the nation’s foremost scholars of the band. Ken is a writer, literary critic, and music historian as well as a Professor of English and Popular Music at Monmouth University. He is the author of the bestselling book Solid State: The Story of Abbey Road and the End o...

In this episode, Dr. Walter D. Greason discusses African Americans in the history of New Jersey. Greason is a pioneering scholar in the field of African American history. His groundbreaking book Suburban Erasure: How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey is one of the first complete scholarly surveys on African Americans in the history of New Jersey with a focus on the twentiet...