Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.
Audre Lorde described herself as a ‘Black lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’; she was also a socialist, a writer, a teacher. But she is best known today for slogans taken from her poems, essays and speeches: ‘Your silence will not protect you’; ‘There is no hierarchy of oppression’; ‘The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s...
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor talks to Adam Shatz about the intellectual and historical background to the Black Lives Matter movement, and why she’s optimistic that the current protests might bring change.
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