While the country is struggling with incoherent and inadequate responses to the COVID-19 crisis, far-right terrorism, and an ever-growing housing crisis, local organizers and activists are building networks of community care to meet the needs created by decades of neoliberal policies that have abandoned cities. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor to discuss her journey through academia and the political moment we’re experiencing as a nation. I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. In addition, she is a contributing writer and columnist for the New Yorker. She is the author of the award-winning books Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership and From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, and editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective. She studies racial inequality in public policy as well as Black social movements and community organizing. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a professor in the African-American Studies Department at Princeton University.
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