She is currently a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. She has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians by the Organization of American Historians.įor eight years, Taylor was professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. In 2018 Essence Magazine named her among the top one hundred “change makers” in the county. In 2016, she was named one of the hundred most influential African Americans in the United States by The Root. She is a former Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times.

Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Paris Review, Guardian, The Nation, Jacobin, and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, among others. MacArthur Foundation Taylor is among 25 scientists, artists and scholars across the country who each will receive 625,000 in unrestricted grants over a five-year period from the John D. Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Photo courtesy of the John D. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction in 2018. Her earlier book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is a 2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Race for Profit was a semi-finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020. She is author Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by University of North Carolina Press. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. RT HelenGymPHL: Check out this new poll that shows us TIED for first place, and then sign up to knock doors this weekend It couldn’t be more important that we. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States.

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