Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
OccupationProfessor
AwardsMacArthur Fellow
Academic background
Alma materNortheastern Illinois University (BA)
Northwestern University (MA, PhD)
ThesisRace for Profit: The Political Economy of Black Urban Housing in the 1970's (2013)
Academic work
DisciplineAfrican American Studies
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Notable worksFrom #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an American academic, writer, and activist. She is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton 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.