Kam Williams - AALBC.com Reviewer and Interviewer
Voted Best Male Entertainment Journalist of the Decade by the Disilgold Soul Literary Review in 2006, Kam Williams is a syndicated film and book critic who writes for 100+ publications around the U.S. and Canada. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Online, the African-American Film Critics Association, the NAACP Image Awards Nominating Committee, and Rotten Tomatoes.
In addition to a BA in Black Studies from Cornell, he has an MA in English from Brown, an MBA from The Wharton School, and a JD from Boston University. Kam lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife and son.
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Just some of the book reviews and articles on AALBC.com by Kam Williams
Book Reviews
Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof
He Talk Like a White Boy: Reflections on Faith, Family, Politics, and Authenticity by Joseph C. Phillips
Forty Million Dollar Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete by William C. Rhoden
Color Him Father: Stories of Love and Rediscovery of Black Men
Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It by Juan Williams
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life by Tyler Perry
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny by Hill Harper
Stripped Bare: The 12 Truths That Will Help You Land the Very Best Black Man by LaDawn Black
Mixed: My Life in Black and White by Angela Nissel
Out of Bounds: Coming Out of Sexual Abuse, Addiction, and My Life of Lies in the NFL Closet by Roy Simmons
Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Living Black History: How Reimagining the African-American Past Can Remake America's Racial Future by Manning Marable
How To Think Big... When You're Small
Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Life Is Not a Fairy Tale
Creating Black Americans: African American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present
Nell Irvin Painter - (Author Interview)
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
Going Postal: Rage, Murder and Rebellion
Osama Bin Laden: America's Enemy in His Own Words
Social Crisis and Social Demoralization: The Dynamics of Status in American Race Relations
Ronald Kuykendall - (Author Interview)
Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America by Scott Poulson-Bryant
Driven from Within By Michael Jordan
Thru My Eyes: Thoughts on Tupac Amaru Shakur in Pictures and Words By Gobi Foreword by Afeni Shakur
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry Edited by Arnold Rampersad
Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White By Prudence L. Carter
How to Grow as a Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed by Sheila A. Anderson
Sheila E. Anderson - (Author Interview)
Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families By Pamela Paul
Michael Jackson: The Man Behind the Mask An Insider's Story of the King of Pop by Bob Jones with Stacy Brown
What's My Name Fool
Confessions of a Video Vixen
Karrine Steffans - (Author Interview)
Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Real Men Cook: Rites, Rituals, and Recipes for Living by K. Kofi Moyo
Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
Souls for Sale: The Diary of an Ex-Colored Man’Conflict and Compromise of Second Generation Advocacy in the Post Civil Rights Era
50 Years after Brown: The State of Black Equality in America
Righteous Riches: The Word of Faith Movement in Contemporary African-American Religion
The Little Black Book
Hollywood Fantasies of Miscegenation
Liberalism Is a Mental Disorder
Buried by the Times
What's Really Holding You Back?
God's Politics
Born to Win
Do You Speak American?
Before Brown
Blackout
Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?
Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
Bakari Kitwana- (Author Interview)
Descending from the Clouds
Move Reviews
All films are reviewed by Kam Williams are on a 4 Star scale (0 Stars =
Poor, 1 Star = Fair, 2 Stars = Good, 3 Stars = Very Good, 4 Stars = Excellent)
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
Ving Rhames
Tom CruiseThe Vanishing Black Male
Hisani DuBose (Director Interview)Get Rich or Die Tryin'
50 Cent (actor interview)
Jim Sheridan (Director Interview)G
Blair Underwood - (Actor Interview)Crash
Terrence Howard - (Actor Interview)
Thandie Newton - (Actor Interview)The Honeymooners
Cedric the Entertainer - (Actor Interview)
Articles
Obama’s State of the Union Speech - An Oscar-Worthy Performance (2010)
What's Going On? Black-on-Black
Homicide Hits Home (2007)
Best and Worst
of Black Nonfiction Books for 2005
Eva Longoria The Sentinel Interview
Brian Sparks: The Black White Interview
Interviews
Kola Boof
Chris Gardner
2006 NYFCO Movie Awards
The Negro-Cons’ Deal with the Devil
Daryle Jenkins - The Klanbuster Interview
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