A Conversation with Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Jan 27, 2022

4 - 5:30pm EST

Specific location TBD, Homewood Campus Homewood Campus

3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore , Maryland 21218

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This event is free

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Center for Africana Studies

africana.studies@jhu.edu

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Description

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, a scholar of anti-Black racism, public policy, radical politics, and social movements, will give a talk as part of the Center for Africana Studies' Speaker Series: The Challenges of Africana Studies 50+ Years On.

Taylor has written three award-winning books, including Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020. Taylor has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on her next book and is a recipient of the 2021 MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant. Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker.

All in-person events at Johns Hopkins must follow university COVID-19 policies. See current guidelines online. This is a hybrid event; please register to advance to attend virtually.

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