Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Academic, writer and activist
Princeton professor and writer on Black politics, social movements and racial inequality, and author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.
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About Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a writer, scholar and activist from the United States. She holds the Hughes-Rogers professorship in African American Studies at Princeton University. Her scholarship covers present-day Black politics, the past of Black social movements and radicalism, and how public policy relates to racial inequality. From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation came out in 2016, and that year it brought her the Lannan Foundation's Cultural Freedom Award. Her book How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective received the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction in 2018. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in History. Taylor was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2021. She has written opinion pieces for the New York Times and has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker. She also co-publishes Hammer & Hope, an online magazine launched in 2023.