Michael Paul Williams (born 1958) is an American journalist and a regular columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
[1] In 2021, Williams was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for his writing about the protest movements in Richmond in the wake of the murder of George Floyd leading to the removal of many Confederate monuments.
[3] While at Northwestern, Williams contemplated a career in sports journalism, but ultimately pursued hard news.
He worked for 10 years as a news reporter at the Times-Dispatch but stated in an interview that he "did not really find my true sense of mission until I started writing opinion.
[5] Williams spent his early years in the Byrd Park area of Richmond and attended Hermitage High School.