250 Years of Resistance: Brian Jones and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in Conversation

Take a break from the bizarre and depressing spectacle of Donald Trump presiding over celebrations of the U.S. state’s 250th birthday to join Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Brian Jones for a conversation about the inspiring history and extraordinary capacity of ordinary people to resist and organize for a better world.

Speakers:

Brian Jones is an educator and author. He served as the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools at the New York Public Library and was the associate director of education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Brian is a founding board member and contributing artist to the organization, Voices of a People’s History and the author of two books, The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History, and Black History Is for Everyone.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the co-founder of Hammer & Hope. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book, was recently published in an expanded second edition by Haymarket Books, with a new foreword by Angela Y. Davis. ​Her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership was a semi-finalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and a former Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. In 2021, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. With Colin Kaepernick and Robin D. G. Kelley, she edited Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies. Her latest book is the expanded and updated edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, featuring a new introduction by Taylor and a powerful new interview with Angela Y. Davis.

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