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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition
12 May 2021
In the past year or two, the proposition of defunding or abolishing police and prisons has travelled from incarcerated-activist networks into mainstream conversations.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Cancel the Rent
20 May 2020
We have to reverse the strange alchemy where markets turn land, concrete, steel, and glass into money, while turning people out into the streets.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The Black Plague
22 Apr 2020
The rapidity with which the pandemic has consumed black communities provides an unvarnished look into the dynamics of race and class that existed long before it emerged
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Five Years Later, Do Black Lives Matter?
09 Oct 2019
Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Black Awakening, Class Rebellion
11 Jan 2017
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and George Ciccariello-Maher “The Black movement has been and will continue to be the foundation for the emergence of other liberation movements” in the U.S., says Keeanga…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
What Divides Black America?
04 Sep 2014
/*-->*/ by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The eruption of outrage and protest in Ferguson has shown a spotlight on the out-of-touch attitudes and policies of Black political leaders. “When the Black…
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Renters: The Other Housing Crisis
22 Sep 2010
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The more than half of Black Americans that pay rent are the butt end of government housing policy. The U.S. makes a religion out of home ownership, but “only…