Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Ph.D.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Ph.D. is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States.

​Taylor is the 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. She is a 2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Taylor is a cofounder of Hammer & Hope and a contributing writer 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. She is a former Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. She has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians by the Organization of American Historians.