Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor – From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation

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Mon, 04/25/2016 - 8:00am to 9:00am
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor – From #Black Lives Matter to Black Liberation


Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod speak with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor who writes on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. Her new book is From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. 
In the book activist and scholar Taylor surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and persistence of structural inequality such as mass incarceration and Black unemployment. In this context, she argues that this new struggle against police violence holds the potential to reignite a broader push for Black liberation.
Taylor's articles have been published in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics,Culture and SocietyJacobinNew Politics, the GuardianIn These TimesBlack Agenda ReportMs.International Socialist ReviewAl Jazeera America, and other publications. Taylor is assistant professor in the department of African American Studies at Princeton University.

 

 

 

From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation
by Keeanga Taylor
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