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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a co-founder of Hammer & Hope and the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation “Genius Grant” and a Guggenheim fellowship.
She is the author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership and From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation and the editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. Race for Profit was a semi-finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020.
Interview on the current uprising in the US, defunding the police, prison abolition and much more.
The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police
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Evictions and foreclosures in the U.S. could trigger a new wave of infection and illness—but it’s not too late to act
Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it?
The case has never been clearer for a transition to Medicare for All, but its achievement clashes with the Democratic Party’s decades-long hostility to funding the social-welfare state
There was a time in America when being called a socialist could end a political career. Not anymore
Source: Democracy Now! Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor at Princeton University, has just published a book about the racial wealth gap and…
In a single speech, Bernie showed why he’s an existential threat to the political establishment. He decried poverty and exploitation and named capitalism as the culprit and democratic socialism as the solution