Winter Talks: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Join us for a new season of Winter Talks, our lecture series with distinguished speakers pushing forward critical discourse. These evenings invite the public into in-person conversations on cultural issues that are urgent for artists, scholars, and cultural workers. Invited speakers share material in development that bridges art, culture, technology, and economics. This event is free with RSVP.

Award-winning scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor will deliver the season’s final lecture. Dr. Taylor is a Professor in the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, published in 2019 by the University of North Carolina Press, a semi-finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction and a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer in History. Taylor’s book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, 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 LGBTQ nonfiction in 2018. In 2021, Taylor was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship.