Activist and scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor surveys the history and current realities of US racism. Taylor examines how institutional racism has created and shaped the structural problems that affect Black people, such as mass incarceration and unemployment, even as more Black people hold political office than ever before. She paints a vivid picture of the context for this new struggle against police violence—and shows the potential of the Black Lives Matter movement to reignite and broaden the struggle for liberation.

Sponsored by Haymarket Books and Lannan Foundation

Cosponsored by:
• BYP 100
• Black Lives Matter Chicago
• Northwestern Department of African American Studies
• Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at UChicago
• Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul Unviersity
• Chicago Socialists - ISO
• UIC Social Justice Initiative
• In These Times