Articles or News by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
As Kamala Harris defines her candidacy, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others will have few options to change it After weeks of debate about the viability of President Joe Biden’s run for reëlection, the mounting pressure...
What explains the student movement against the war in Gaza? Sometimes the correct answer is the one right in front of you. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor May 8, 2024 Read the full article here The New...
For critics of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay, a larger goal was always in sight. Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor January 22, 2024 Read the full article here The New Yorker
Housing is one the building blocks of human life. Why is it so scarce in this country? Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor October 5, 2023 Read the full article here The Nation
Two intellectual and movement leaders talk candidly about the growing mass rejection of capitalism—and the challenges of converting that into real socialist organization. Astra Taylor & Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor September 1, 2023 Read the full...
Officials have described the recent shooting as an aberration in the “City of Good Neighbors.” But this conceals the city’s long-standing racial divisions. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor June 9, 2022 Read the full article here The...
By Jason Beeferman
Read the full article from Chicago Sun Times, here.
Historian and author Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Jacqueline Stewart, who studies the history of cinema, both focus their work on the Black experience and uplifting Black voices. They are among 25 recipients of the no-strings-attached $625,000 fellowships, unofficially dubbed the “genius grants,” announced Tuesday.
Taylor has lived in Chicago for more than a decade. Stewart was born and raised in Hyde Park. Both said their experiences with Chicago’s Black neighborhoods played a pivotal role in their intellectual development.
In a new book, the historian Elizabeth Hinton reveals that, in the late sixties and early seventies, there were hundreds of local rebellions against white violence and racial inequality. Since the declaration of Martin...
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Read the full article from The New Yorker here.
“Our current criminal-justice system is rooted in the assumption that millions of people require policing, surveillance, containment, prison. It is a dark view of humanity. By contrast, Kaba and others in this emergent movement fervently believe in the capacity of people to change in changed conditions. That is the optimism at the heart of the abolitionist project.”
By University of Illinois at Chicago
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“John D. MacArthur Professor Barbara Ransby, director of the University of Illinois Chicago’s Social Justice Initiative, has convened a formidable roster of social justice scholars and writers as the inaugural cohort of Marielle Franco fellows, named after the assassinated Brazilian human rights leader. They are: Angela Y. Davis, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Naomi Klein. The four Franco fellows will participate in curated discussions and public events over the next two years with some of the most influential organizers in the country and scholars whose research wrestles with social and racial justice themes.”