Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a leading scholar and speaker on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is the author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (2019), which was a semifinalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. Her earlier book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016), received the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book. She also edited How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (2012), which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ nonfiction.

Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker, and her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Paris Review, The Guardian, The Nation, Jacobin, and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, among others. She previously served as a Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times.

Recognized for her impact, Taylor was named one of the 100 most influential African Americans by The Root in 2016 and was included in Essence Magazine’s list of top 100 “change makers” in 2018. She has also been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.

Taylor is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

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