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Carl Lut Williams
President, AZEEZ Communications

Location: Greensboro, NC United States
Birthday: Sep 22nd
Joined: Aug 8th, 2007
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Carl Lut Williams, owner and president of AZEEZ Communications, is a media specialist out of Greensboro, N. C. with extensive experience as a writer and publisher, television producer, radio personality and most recently as a documentary filmmaker concentrating on HBCU sports and athletics.

Lut is best known for the last 21 years as publisher of the Black College Sports Page and as an expert on the black college sports landscape. In that capacity, he publishes a full newspaper page each week (BCSP) covering America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) athletic programs in the four main conferences – the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA), the Mid Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC), the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) and the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) – as well as the HBCUs that are not part of the four conferences.

His publication has appeared in 83 black newspapers over the past 21 years. The BCSP highlights breaking news, scores, standings, schedules, statistics, feature stories, rankings and profiles on players, coaches, teams, conferences and individuals in the black college sports universe. Particular features are national rankings and postseason all-American teams for basketball and football and profiles of black college players in the professional ranks, particularly the NFL but including Major League Baseball, the NBA and the PGA. The BCSP is featured online each week at Black College Sports Online (aka Onnidan.com).

In 1996, he wrote and published The Best of the Black College Sports Page, a 312-page compilation of the first two years of the BCSP.

For the last 15 years, Williams has also written MEAC and SWAC basketball and football season previews for The Sporting News College Basketball and Football Annuals (formely Street & Smith’s). He also wrote stories and served as photo editor for Street & Smith’s Black College Football Magazine, wrote for AOL Black Voices and Black Voices Quarterly and served as black college editor and columnist for AOL Sports,

He has been a guest on a number of national radio programs as an expert on black college sports including a regular segment on “The Two Live Stews Show” syndicated by Sporting News Radio and frequent appearances on The Sports Groove on Sirius/XM Radio, Talking Sports with Roger B. Brown out of Dallas, The Bachelor Pad with L. A. Bachelor, The Coach’s Show with Butch McAdams out of Washington D.C’s WOL and on Sirius/XM Radio.

He was executive producer and production manager for nine televised black college football games involving teams from the SWAC, MEAC and SIAC in 2001 on the MBC Network and in 2005 he and partner Curt Simmons put together a syndicated network to televise and broadcast six MEAC games. He was a guest commentator for the MBC Sports Desk TV show in 2006. He hosted the BNT Sports Report in 2011-12 for Black Network Television of Greensboro, N.C.

In 2009, his company planned and hosted three Event Management Seminars for representatives of the FIFA U-17 World Cup Nigeria

Lut made his first foray into documentary filmmaking with the 2012 production of “The Spirit of Langston Basketball: The Hank Allen Story,” a 75-minute documentary on his high school and its legendary basketball coach, Howard “Hank” Allen, a Hampton alum whose influence was felt by many in his hometown of Danville, Va. Williams served as writer, producer and director on the piece that was finished in June of 2012.

He spent three years an an instructor and media assistant at Bennett College and six years as news director at North Carolina A&T State University.

Lut, a father of four and grandfather to 11, converted to Islam in 1974 while a student at Howard University and has remained active as a Muslim for the last 41 years. He is an alum of Howard University (1972-76) and a 1984 graduate of Averett College (now University) in Danville, Virginia with a B.A. degree in English/Journalism/Communications.
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Howard University class of 1984
Undergrad Major: Journalism
Claim To Fame:
Completed his first documentary, The Spirit of Langston Basketball, in 2012 and is currently pursuing a host of documentary projects.
Experience
I currently work with AZEEZ Communications as President
I have 25 years of experience working in the Publishing industry.
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