Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Redlining itself cannot explain this persistence of inequality in America's cities.

Even housing policies that sought to create more Black homeowners were stymied by racism and a determination to shrink the government’s presence.

The New Deal's legacies of infrastructure and economic development, and entrenching structural racism, reveal the potential and mistakes to avoid for the Green New Deal.

In "Race for Profit," Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor walks us through the ways racist housing policy survived the abolition of redlining.

Municipal governments today hold around $4 trillion in outstanding debt. The growing costs of simply servicing their debt is cannibalizing their annual budgets.

A conversation with Colin Kaepernick on Black studies, white supremacy, and capitalism.

It would be a mistake to think of the current wave of attacks on “critical race theory” as a culture war. This is a political battle.

In trying to understand one of the key aspects of structural racism, have we constructed a new moralistic story that obscures more than it illuminates?

We will never truly achieve racial justice until we, collectively, learn how to treat and heal the wound of white supremacy.

On the promises and perils of very recent history.

History offers some pointers for government regulators.

Gay marriage was a victory, we’re told—but a victory for what?

America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.

Long after the end of explicit discrimination in the housing market, the federal government continued to manage risk for capital, perpetuating inequality.

One idea inherited from 1960s radicalism is that of “white privilege,” a protean concept invoked to explain wealth, political power, and even cognition.

How today's protests are struggling to reclaim the vision of the great abolitionist leader.

The Combahee River Collective and E. Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie agree that the wealthy and powerful will hijack activist energies for their own ends.

He was a revolutionary, if one committed to nonviolence. But nonviolence does not exhaust his philosophy.

The history of Black Socialism in America.

King should be appreciated in his full complexity.