Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a graduate of NEIU's University Without Walls nontraditional degree program. On September 15th at 7:00pm in the North Campus Auditorium, she will deliver the 2022 NEIU Presidential Lecture. The Presidential Lecture has been established as a Box Office event. Please reserve your general admission tickets at neiu.edu/tickets. This event is free and open to the public. Dr. Taylor was named one of the hundred most influential African Americans in the United States by The Root. and among the top one hundred “change makers” in the country by Essence Magazine. In 2021 she was a awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" grant. Her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, was a semi-finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2020. Taylor is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Review, Paris Review, Guardian, The Nation, Jacobin, and Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, among others. She is a former Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. She has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians by the Organization of American Historians. For eight years, Taylor was professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is currently a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Northwestern University. | |
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