Z Needs Your Help!
Howard Zinn’s life was a model for left-wing intellectuals to both produce and take action to transform the world
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.
Lessons of Radical Black Feminism in the Age of Trump
Movements do not come to us from heaven, fully formed and organized. They are built by actual people, with all their political questions, weaknesses and strengths
Black political operatives operate in the same terrain as their white competitors. They compete to stay in the good graces of wealthy donors while maximizing political connections to bolster their campaign war chests
To end police violence, we must end policing as we know it. Coming within days of each other, the grand jury…
It’s clear that nothing other than a mass movement can stop the senseless murder of young African Americans at the hands of American police
African Americans have a rich history of directing their collective anger at inequality and injustice toward institutions that maintain the status quo
While the liberal establishment relished the opportunity to pound on Ryan, Obama continues to get a pass for making the same point