Keishel Williams

Keishel Williams is a Trinidadian-American editor, literary writer, and book critic. Her work can be found in publications such as Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Literary Hub, NPR, Insider, Rumpus and more.


Articles by Keishel Williams

A collage with two portraits of Black women, one with a hand on her chin, the other with loose hair, beside the blue and yellow cover of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Banned BooksU.S. Free Expression
Monday September 26

Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie’s “Half of A Yellow Sun:” The danger of a single untold story

“Denying students age-appropriate opportunities to read Half of a Yellow Sun in classrooms because the truth is too violent is denying them the opportunity to understand the truth of their friends, their neighbors, and in some cases, their own history.”