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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.
“The fiftieth anniversary of Angela Davis’s historic acquittal of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy, charges that once threatened her execution, was little acknowledged…
The gunman seems motivated by a vision of history, pushed by the right, in which American racism never existed and Black people are undeserving takers
This summer, India Walton looked likely to become the first Black woman to lead Buffalo, and the first socialist mayor of any major American city in decades. Then the sitting Democratic mayor launched a campaign to defeat her
A look at a book by a Black Lives Matter Founder, Alicia Garza: The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
“The impeachment yesterday is a culmination of sorts of the kind of violence and racism that has been at the heart of the Trump administration that finally boiled over”
Activists create a Model for Organizing as Mass Evictions Loom
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
How Racism & Racial Terrorism Fueled Nationwide Anger