Articles or News by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The administration’s crude vilification of anti-discrimination policies is meant to erase the radical promise of the Black freedom struggle. One year on, the Trump administration’s descent deeper into the gutter of racism no longer...
The gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the U.S. Supreme Court and the vicious attacks on immigrants of color appear to be separate actions—but they are not. They are both acts of voter...
Mass protests have demonstrated a wide range of disagreement with the Trump agenda. But we need smaller local and regional networks to build a more rooted, sustained opposition. Americans roundly oppose Donald Trump’s authoritarian...
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.
