Tag: Will Jawando

  • My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist’s Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole Farrar, Straus and Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan Publishers) 2022-05-03 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780374604875 Audio ISBN: 9781250856319 Digital Audio ISBN: 9781250856326 e-Book ISBN: 9780374604882 Will Jawando, Councilmember Montgomery County, Maryland Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative…

  • Will Jawando Doesn’t Have To Be The Next Obama MTV News 2016-04-18 Jamil Smith, Senior National Correspondent There are rules for knocking on someone’s door while campaigning. And Will Jawando, a few weeks back, broke a big one. “Rule 101 in canvassing,” he told MTV News, “is that you don’t go inside.” This makes sense.…

  • What Makes Black Men Run From the Police? The Root 2015-08-27 Will Jawando Your Take: A good, hard look at the statistics will tell you why African Americans have reason to fear an encounter with police. t’s never much of a surprise when I hear it, but it stings all the same. Freddie Gray would…

  • A Place in Between The Washington Post 2008-08-25 Kevin Merida, Managing Editor Will Jawando sat on a Capitol Hill park bench admiring an unseasonably breezy August afternoon as he told his story of being half black and half white, “kind of a double outsider” in a nation still struggling with difference. His story could easily be…