Occupation Journalist Known for film criticism | Name Kam Williams Role Journalist | |
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Born December 11, 1952 (age 71) ( 1952-12-11 ) New York City Education Cornell University, Brown University | ||
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Kam Williams (born December 11, 1952) is an African-American journalist, largely known for his work as a film critic, celebrity interviewer and literary critic.
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- Background
- Career
- Honors and recognition
- References
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Background
Williams was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. degree in African American Studies. He later received a Master of Arts in English from Brown University. Williams also holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a law degree from Boston University.
Career
Williams who, according to Rotten Tomatoes, is syndicated in over 100 black newspapers and magazines in the United States, Canada and Caribbean, is the chief critic at NewsBlaze.com, and regularly contributes to the Los Angeles Sentinel, Houston Defender, Baltimore Afro-American, AALBC.com, and the historic Tennessee paper, the Tri-State Defender. He is also a member of the NAACP Image Awards Nominating Committee and New York Film Critics Online. Williams is a "Tomatometer" critic at Rotten Tomatoes.
Williams is also known for his celebrity interviews of black entertainers and luminaries such as Soledad O’Brien, Denzel Washington, LeBron James, and Djimon Hounsou. In 2002, one of his interviews with Spike Lee was featured in an anthology about the African American film director.
Honors and recognition
In 2008, the Dissigold Soul Literary Review voted Williams “Most Outstanding Journalist of the Decade”. In 2012, he was also honored at the United Nations during the Global Forum on Women’s Empowerment for his coverage of African-American entertainment. Williams received the Daniel Pearl Multimedia Award at the 2013 Pocono Mountains Film Festival.