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Kidada E. Williams

Kidada E. Williams is an associate professor of history at Wayne State University and author of “They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I,” and a forthcoming book about families attacked by the Ku Klux Klan. Next year, she plans to begin writing a book about Detroit’s rape test kit backlog.

Articles

Raped and left on the road, she said #MeToo. Jurors said ‘No, not you.’

December 14, 2017 Kidada E. Williams, Danielle L. McGuire in

Children & Families

Michigan has made huge strides testing sexual assault evidence. But even in this era of reckoning, black women are deemed unworthy of rape.

Say her name: Shawana Hall. She is a hero.

December 14, 2017 Kidada E. Williams, Danielle L. McGuire in

Children & Families

Shawana Hall had a troubled life but persevered. She spoke up against all odds.