Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Class conflict undermines assumptions about political solidarity.

A new book argues that American politics are defined by unfulfilled desire.

Saidiya Hartman’s unrelenting exploration of slavery and freedom in the United States first appeared in 1997 and has lost none of its relevance.

For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?

The right to abortion is an affirmation that women and girls have the right to control their own destiny.

Officials have described the recent shooting as an aberration in the “City of Good Neighbors.” But this conceals the city’s long-standing racial divisions.

As liberation movements bloomed, they offered a vision of reproductive justice that was about equality, not just “choice.”

The King holiday is more than a time for reflection. It’s really a time for provocation.

The Supreme Court, the federal branch with the least public accountability, has historically sided with tradition over more expansive human rights visions.

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.

Barbara Smith and the Black feminist visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.

Five years since its inception, a look at what the Black Lives Matter movement accomplished and the important work it left unfinished.

The reparations struggle is about remembering that America was built on slavery, but also about fighting for all working people.

Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on why it's so important to tell the stories of people who have fueled social justice movements.

As King’s attention drifted to the problems of the urban north, his critiques came to focus on the economic system itself.

Troy Davis' death at the hands of the state on Sept. 21, 2011, transformed Occupy and kindled Black Lives Matter.