KEEANGA-YAMAHTTA TAYLOR is a professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University and a 2021 MacArthur “genius” fellow. She is author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by University of North Carolina Press. Race for Profit was a semi-finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020.
FeatureElection 2024
Why Didn't the Progressive Movement Challenge Kamala Harris?
Recreating the #Resistance of the first Trump administration with such a fragile coalition will be a monumental task.
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FeatureInterviewThe Socialism Issue
You Can’t Be a Socialist Alone: Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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 and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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Don’t Deride Liberals Who Attended the Women’s March—Recruit Them to Radical Politics
The fact that 3 million people took to the streets to protest President Trump shows that the possibility of a mass Left movement in the U.S. is now very real.
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Dispatch
Fewer Police, Safer Communities?
The tension between safety from police and safety from crime
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In Baltimore and Across the Country, Black Faces in High Places Haven’t Helped Average Black People
Electing African-American political leaders has done little to alleviate the suffering of Black America.
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Donald Sterling Is Only Part of the Problem
Sterling's remarks certainly deserve condemnation, but we can't ignore racism's more harmful effects.
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Viewpoint
Where Obama’s Class Speech Failed
The president claims 'the opportunity gap in America is now as much about class as it is about race.' Is it?
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A Verdict on Racial Profiling?
A judge has ruled stop-and-frisk unconstitutional and racist. But will it stop?
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The Verdict on a ‘Post-Racial’ Society
What the George Zimmerman acquittal says about America.
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