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Thomas Chatterton
Williams

Writer

Thomas writes about: Culture, Race, Society

Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of Losing My Cool and Self-Portrait in Black and White. He is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine, a columnist at Harper’s, and a 2019 New America Fellow. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the London Review of Books, The Atlantic and elsewhere, and has been collected in The Best American Essays and The Best American Travel Writing. He has received support from Yaddo, MacDowell, and The American Academy in Berlin.

We have a responsibility to remember, yes, but we also have the right and I believe even the duty to continuously remake ourselves anew.

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