From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation (Expanded Second Edition) - Keeanga-yamahtta Taylor
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation , which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective , which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBQT nonfiction in 2018. Her third book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership , was a finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. Taylor is a Contributing Opinion Writer for the New York Times and a columnist at The New Yorker . Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times , Boston Review , Paris Review , Guardian , The Nation , Jacobin , and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society , among others.