Editor’s Note: Like the rest of the world, we mourn the passing of Toni Morrison. She inspired so many thinkers, writers, creatives, and dreamers...
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.
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#InContext: Mary Wollstonecraft
By: TAKIM WILLIAMS Mary Wollstonecraft provocatively compared the women of 18th Century England to slaves in her groundbreaking feminist classic, A...
#InContext: Apostle Paul
In ancient Rome, slavery was common, and running away from your owner was punishable by death. A man named Onesimus did just that in the first...
#InContext: Margaret Mead
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#InContext: Elie Wiesel
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#InContext: Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington D.C. is an experience as much as it is a structure. Granite walls form four open-air...
#InContext: White Helmets
In the war-torn city of Aleppo, Syria, the White Helmets always run toward the bombs and screams. They are the Syrian Civil Defense. Nicknamed for...
#InContext: Frederick Douglass
By: TAKIM WILLIAMS Frederick Douglass was a well-respected abolitionist, social activist, orator, and...
#InContext: Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was a well-respected abolitionist, social activist, orator, and statesman. Born into slavery in Maryland in 1818, his story...
#InContext: Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma meaning “Great Soul,” was born in 1869 to an elite family in northwest India. Influenced by Jainism,...
#InContext: Dwight D. Eisenhower
By: TAKIM WILLIAMS The Cold War was in full swing when Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president of the United States for the second time. Soviet...