Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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). For this book, Taylor received the 2016 Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book from the Lannan Foundation. She is a co-publisher of Hammer & Hope, an online magazine that began in 2023.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | |
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| Occupation | Professor |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellow |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Northeastern Illinois University (BA) Northwestern University (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Race for Profit: The Political Economy of Black Urban Housing in the 1970's (2013) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | African American Studies |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
| Notable works | From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016) |
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