Jason Williams

NJ teen motorist in deadly hit-and-run could be charged as an adult — after juvenile charges spark outrage Vinnie Battiloro has been charged as a juvenile with two counts of first-degree murder.

My pal @drjwilliams.bsky.social (Justice Studies) is quoted in this #NewYorkPost article about the 17-year-old accused of a deadly hit-and-run in #Cranford. nypost.com/2025/10/04/u...

NJ governor's race: What's next for mental health response programs? | NJ Spotlight News Next governor will have wide discretion over support for mental health emergency response programs

@drjwilliams.bsky.social (Justice Studies) is quoted in this NJ Spotlight News article about how the state’s governor’s race will impact mental health response programs. www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/10/nj-g...

Transformative Community-Based Education Programs: Reimaging a Sense of Community Through Critically Conscious Programming Historically, Black youth have been labeled as needing to be “saved” and “fixed” because they are “at-risk,” “broken,” and more likely to manifest deviant behavior. This deficit rhetoric frames com...

Proud to share a new publication with Dr. Carrie Bergeson and Dr. Brad Forenza on reimagining community-based education through critical consciousness. Honored to keep building with brilliant minds doing people-centered work.

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NJ teen motorist in deadly hit-and-run could be charged as an adult — after juvenile charges spark outrage Vinnie Battiloro has been charged as a juvenile with two counts of first-degree murder.

Appreciate NY Post journalist Chris Harris for quoting me in his piece on the Cranford hit and run case. A 17-year-old accused of intentionally killing two teens now faces possible adult trial, a case to watch on youth and justice.

Where NJ's governor hopefuls stand on police transparency • New Jersey Monitor Criminal justice reformers warn that neither major-party candidate vying to become NJ's new governor plans to expand police transparency.

@drjwilliams.bsky.social Jason Williams (Justice Studies) is quoted in this New Jersey Monitor article about where New Jersey’s gubernatorial candidates stand on police transparency. newjerseymonitor.com/2025/09/29/w...

Thx so much 🙏🏿😊

Thrilled to share my forthcoming book The Palgrave Handbook of Racial Injustice and Resistance, out Feb 2026 ✨✊🏾. Grateful to my coeditors and contributors who made this radical and uncompromising project possible.

Quoted on the front page of USA Today today on Trump’s plan to send the National Guard into majority-Black cities and those with Black leadership. Thanks to @dberryjourno.bsky.social and Terry Collins for amplifying this critical conversation.

Stopped by campus to check on a book delivery. Instead, I found this oversized hate mail in my university mailbox. They even used the NAACP as the return address.

This is what it means to be a Black scholar who tells the truth. I will not be silenced.

#TruthMatters

Violence intervention programs reel from Trump funding cuts | NJ Spotlight News Some violence intervention programs, including in NJ, have had layoffs or ended services after grant funding was abruptly canceled.

I am a little late sharing this excellent piece written by Bobby Brier. I am happy to have my voice included alongside friends and colleagues.

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Here’s today’s hate mail. It’s likely in response to my quote in USA Today about the reparations bill. When journalists ask for my thoughts, I don’t sanitize the truth. I speak it. Messages like this only prove that honesty still rattles cages. #TruthTeller #Unbothered #StillSpeakingUp

George Floyd’s 2020 murder promised a ‘racial reckoning.’ Instead, we got Trump | Will Bunch Marchers who expected racial progress in the five years since George Floyd's murder instead got a Trump-led white backlash.

A good opinion piece by @willbunch.bsky.social examining the anniversary of George Floyd's death. Happy to have my commentary included.

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Trump’s DEI cuts spark concern among students, faculty at N.J. universities Dozens of students across the state fear losing access to crucial diversity programs and initiatives.

Another very important piece! Kudos to journalist, Deion Johnson for writing it and including my voice 🙏🏿

“Cutting DEI programs doesn’t just affect budgets — it damages the communities we’ve built,” said Montclair State Social Justice Professor Jason Williams.

Does the Civil Rights Act protect or, as Trump says, promote favoritism? The landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act aimed to prevent workplace discrimination. Trump says it promotes bias and will stop enforcing it.

Another crucial piece on the current moment. I’m happy I could lend voice to this timely article. Kudos to @dberryjourno.bsky.social for her wonderful reporting 🙌🏿🙏🏿

Live Updates: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; at least four hospitalized Active shooter reported at Florida State

DEVELOPING: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; at least four people hospitalized, local hospital says; FSU urges students to seek shelter.

In May, I will be moderating a discussion with David Greenberg about his new book, "John Lewis: A Life." This talk is sponsored by the Montclair Literary Festival. If you're interested, please take a look at the flyer below for more details.

'Our dollars do count': These shoppers are using an economic blackout against companies Some shoppers vow to join economic blackouts and other efforts to push back against companies they believe have reneged on diversity initiatives.

Another good story by the great Deborah Barfield-Berry on the “economic blackout”. I’m happy to be quoted in such a very important story.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Look, I’m sorry, but lots of liberals are soft. I don’t mean reasonable. I don’t mean complicated, practical or willing to compromise. I mean *soft*. I mean lots of liberals are motivated by self-regard, group-esteem and pleasure-seeking more than duty, sacrifice and the common good.

The End of the DEI Era As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a newly emboldened anti-DEI bloc has gained powerful allies.

"The New Segregationists" is a more accurate headline.

You could go through nearly this entire article replacing "anti-DEI" with "segregationist," and it would work.

Homogeneity is the opposite of diversity, which is what they aim for.
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Six big US banks quit net zero alliance before Trump inauguration Exodus from target-setting group is attempt to head off ‘anti-woke’ attacks from rightwing politicians, say analysts

The six biggest banks in the U.S. have quit the Net Zero Banking Alliance just before Trump's inauguration.

The alliance was formed with the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Let this serve as another reminder that so-called “corporate social responsibility” is a sham.

Affirmative Action Repeal & Rising White Supremacy The latest Harvard data is a daunting reminder that racist policies are not only systemic in our higher education systems—they're getting worse

My article proves that Legacy Admissions, not Affirmative Action, is the actual racist policy that destroys meritocracy—but since it benefits unqualified white people, it is protected.

It's been shared thousands of times—yet not one rebuttal. Can't imagine why.🤔
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Trump and Republicans better not say shit about government spending or debt when they threw the debt limit into the CR spending bill. They killed their own talking point.

Republicans want to nuke the debt limit so that Trump has free rein to spend unchecked and explode the debt!

The accusations against Liz Cheney are baseless. Persuading a witness to testify truthfully is not a crime. The point is to intimidate and chill free speech. I wish all politicians had Cheney’s courage to speak truth to power.

The GOP Becomes the Pro-Childhood Cancer Party Is This a New Bottom or a Warning Sign?

Some programs are too important to play politics with. Apparently, not everyone agrees."

This Is How Trump’s Department of Justice Spied on Journalists In a new report, the Justice Department’s inspector general found that the agency violated its own rules to snoop on reporters.

“The Inspector General’s revelations are beyond disturbing,” said Sen. Ron Wyden.

The answer to “why doesn’t America have [insert social program every other Western nation has]” is always racism.

After they could no longer legally exclude Black people from receiving them, they nuked them altogether.

Trump Accuses Juror of Misconduct in New Move to Overturn Hush-Money Conviction The president-elect’s latest attempt to overturn his Manhattan conviction was rebuffed by the judge overseeing the case, who called it “mere hearsay and conjecture.”

President-elect Trump’s lawyers claimed to have uncovered “evidence of grave juror misconduct" during the trial that convicted him of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal. The judge overseeing the case called it “mere hearsay and conjecture."

Marc keep saying this! It needs to be heard and felt by all. Sadly, MSM is still failing us even as they’re under attack by Trump.

@marcelias.bsky.social Marc that was a great post on legacy media. Thx you for constantly reminding us!