Juan Williams

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Juan Antonio Williams (born April 10, 1954) is an American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel.

He has worked for several newspapers, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, as well as The Atlantic Monthly and Time Magazine.

From 1999 to 2010, he was a senior news analyst for National Public Radio (NPR).

Williams has been a Washington Post reporter, op-ed columnist, White House correspondent, and national correspondent.

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Early life and education

Williams was born in Colón, Panama, on April 10, 1954, to Alma Géraldine and Rogelio L. Williams. Williams' father was from the West Indies, and his mother was from Panama. His family was Spanish. Williams emigrated from Panama to the United States aboard a banana boat with his mother and his two children when he was four years old, according to a 2018 op-ed. The family lived briefly in Pleasantville, New Jersey, before settling in Brooklyn, New York. Williams was awarded a scholarship to attend Oakwood Friends School, a Quaker school in Poughkeepsie, New York. He was named "student clerk" for his senior year, was the school newspaper's editor, and loved sports while at Oakwood. Williams earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy after graduating from Oakwood in 1972.

Personal life

In July 1978, Williams married Susan Delise. They are the parents of one child, Rae, and two sons, Antonio ("Tony") and Raphael ("Raffi"). Tony, a Senate page and intern for Republican Senator Strom Thurmond from 1996 to 2005, ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Council of Columbia, losing to Tommy Wells. Raffi's younger brother played anthropology and lacrosse at Haverford College, his father's alma mater in Pennsylvania. He has served on the House Rules Committee and as the communications director for Michigan Republican Dan Benishek's 2012 congressional campaign, as well as as a deputy press secretary for the Republican National Committee. Raffi served as Press Secretary to former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.

Pepper and Wesley Williams, Williams' grandfather, are twin girls.

Williams has referred to himself as "a black guy with a Hispanic name" and identifies himself as Afro-Panamanian.

Williams has served on the Board of Governors of Haverford College, as well as in the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Department and in the Washington Journalism Center. He serves on the board of directors of the New York Civil Rights Alliance.

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Career

For 23 years, Williams worked with The Washington Post.

Several female employees of the Post had filed sexual harassment charges against Williams only days after Williams wrote a column opposing Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas against sworn testimony alleging sexual assault by Thomas. Williams was disciplined by the paper and later released an apology by the author. "It pained me to learn during the probe that I had offended some of you," Williams wrote on November 2, 1991. I've posted this message on several occasions over the past few weeks, and I repeat here: some of my verbal behavior was wrong, and I now know it, and I extend my sincere apology to those who have offended."

Williams became the host of NPR's flagship afternoon talk show Talk of the Country in 2000. He was then NPR's senior national correspondent. After Williams' remarks on The O'Reilly Factor, she and NPR's president and CEO Vivian Schiller told Fox News that he should not be identified as an NPR anchor. If she starts speaking, she knows she's the perpetrator, because she's got to start with this blame America. People will go from being the latest Jackie O to being something of an albatross if that stuff comes out. "Williams tend to talk one way on NPR and another on Fox," NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard said.

NPR cut him off two days after he made remarks on The O'Reilly Factor on Wednesday. "Look, Bill, I'm not a bigot," he said. You should know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this world. But when I land on the plane, I have to tell you, if I see people in Muslim garb and you know, they are first and foremost Muslims. "I get anxious." According to NPR, the remarks were "inconsistent with our editorial principles and practices," and they damaged his reputation as a news analyst with NPR. Williams' employment ended because of his dismissal of Williams' tenure, NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller said the following: "News analysts should not take personal positions on controversial topics; doing so undermines their credibility as analysts," Schiller told an audience at the Atlanta Press Club on October 21, 2010. "I spoke hastily and I apologised to Juan and others for my thoughtless remark," Schiller later apologised.

Some commentators have questioned whether NPR fired Williams for making the remarks on Fox News rather than making them in another forum. Both Sherrod and Williams' words were taken out of context and resulted in job loss, according to William Saletan of Slate.com, although Sherrod's case was portrayed by liberals rather than conservatives. Although Williams' complaints of Muslims were "unsettling," Williams' argument that such fears should not be used to restrict the rights of Muslims or anyone else, and that Muslims should not be held accountable for Muslim militants in general, according to Saletan. Williams and others have been chastised for operating a double standard in the firing relative to their not firing Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg, and other NPR journalists and analysts for their opinionated remarks.

Williams has been a Fox News Contributor since 1997. He appeared on Special Report with Bret Baier, FOX News Sunday, and was a regular co-host of The Five until announcing on May 5th, 2021, that he would leave the New-York office to work in the Washington, D.C. office in order to spend more time with his family in Washington, D.C. He appeared on The O'Reilly Factor and occasionally appeared as a guest host in O'Reilly's absence. Following NPR's announcement that he would be fired from their network in October 2010, Fox News gave him a new $2 million (a "significant" raise) three-year deal and a new role at their website, which also included a regular guest-host role on Friday nights.

Williams appeared on The O'Reilly Factor and talked about how his experience at Fox contributed to NPR's decision: "I don't fit in their box." I'm not a predictable black liberal. You [O'Reilly] were exactly correct when you said you knew what this means. Since I'm on Fox News, they're looking for a reason to get rid of me. They don't want me talking to you." "Do you see yourself ever joining the Republican Party?" Fox Business Channel's Stuart Varney asked on December 9, 2016. "I have two sons in the Republican Party," Williams said.

Williams is the recipient of an Emmy Award for his contribution to television documentary writing, Civil Rights, and The Press, a newspaper published in the United States. Politics, A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom, Civil Rights, and Healthcare, Dallas.

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954–65, was published by Williams in 1988 as a companion to the PBS film Eyes on the Prize's first season. This Far by Faith, his 2003 book, is also a companion to a PBS series.

Williams has appeared in many national magazines, including Fortune, The New Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, Ebony magazine, TIME and GQ, and GQ. He has appeared on ABC's Nightline, Washington Week on PBS, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Williams appeared at the Smithsonian's commemoration of the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision, which ended legal segregation in public schools, and was selected by the United States Census Bureau as moderator of the program's first attempt, which began in 2010. Among other organizations, he has received honorary doctorates from Lafayette College, Wittenberg University, and Long Island University.

Four female Washington Post colleagues accused Williams of sexual assault in October 1991. His coworkers recalled him making sexually suggestive remarks about them. William wrote an article apologizing for his remarks.

A Williams' column for The Hill in February 2013 was discovered to contain material that had been plagiarized. Williams claimed that a researcher was to blame for the misattribution, but that he himself had no idea about it.

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