Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
OccupationProfessor
AwardsMacArthur Fellow
Academic background
Alma materNortheastern Illinois University (BA)
Northwestern University (MA, PhD)
ThesisRace for Profit: The Political Economy of Black Urban Housing in the 1970's (2013)
Academic work
DisciplineAfrican American Studies
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Notable worksFrom #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an American academic, writer, and activist. She is a professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016).[1][2] For this book, Taylor received the 2016 Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book from the Lannan Foundation.[3] She is a co-publisher of Hammer & Hope, an online magazine that began in 2023.[4]

  1. ^ "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor". Princeton African American Studies. Retrieved February 16, 2020.
  2. ^ Leonard, Sarah (March 1, 2017). "Q&A: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Liberation and the Women's Strike". The Nation. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  3. ^ "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor". Lannan Foundation. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  4. ^ "Hammer and Hope is the new magazine focused on race and class". Teen Vogue. March 2023. Retrieved March 24, 2024.