By: TAKIM WILLIAMS Oscar Arias Sanchez was elected president of Costa Rica in 1986, in the midst of the Cold War. While the United States and the...
Takim Williams
Takim is a 2016 Princeton University graduate with a degree in philosophy and a minor in creative writing. He was a Project Assistant with the Institute during his year as a Blue Ridge Fellow. He continues to think creatively about how he can use his passion for storytelling to improve the world around him.
#InContext: Harriet Tubman
By: TAKIM WILLIAMS Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in 1849. She made her way from her Maryland plantation to the city of Philadelphia, where she...
#InContext: Ronald Reagan
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction,” said Ronald Reagan in a speech to the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce in 1961. “We...
#InContext: Nelson Mandela
In 1918, Nelson Mandela was born into a system of racial segregation and discrimination that would later become known as apartheid....
#InContext: Cornel West
“Justice is what love looks like in public, just like tenderness is what love feels like in private,” said Dr. Cornel West, Professor of Philosophy...
#InContext: Maya Angelou
Over the course of her 86-year life, Maya Angelou was an accomplished singer, actor, dancer, poet, playwright, author, historian, and civil rights...
#InContext: Theodore Parker & Martin Luther King Jr.
The Selma to Montgomery March of 1965 occurred the year after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which did far less to improve the lives of oppressed...
#InContext: Martin Luther King Jr.
Over 200,000 demonstrators joined Martin Luther King, Jr. for the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. The main event was King’s “I Have a...
#InContext: William Wilberforce
By: TAKIM WILLIAMS Between 1640 and 1807, Great Britain was the largest supplier of slaves in the New World, responsible for transporting over 3...
#InContext: President Barack Obama
On September 25, 2012, President Barack Obama addressed attendees at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York. His remarks focused...
#InContext: The Emancipation Proclamation
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as the United States neared its third year of civil...