Brandon M. Terry

Brandon M. Terry is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and author of Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement.

Building a Political Home

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

  • Cathy J. Cohen
  • Brandon M. Terry

Where Do We Go From Here: A Fundraiser for Black Lives

A transcript of our panel discussion on the Black Lives Matter movement.

  • Elizabeth Hinton
  • Robin D. G. Kelley
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Brandon M. Terry
  • Cornel West

The Radical Equality of Lives

Judith Butler talks with Brandon M. Terry about MLK, the grievability of black lives, and how to defend nonviolence today. 

  • Brandon M. Terry
  • Judith Butler

A Revolution in Values

King showed respect through disagreement.

  • Brandon M. Terry

MLK Now

Canonization has prevented a reckoning with the substance of King’s intellectual, ethical, and political commitments.

  • Brandon M. Terry
with responses from
  • Barbara Ransby
  • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Andrew J. Douglas
  • Jeanne Theoharis
  • Elizabeth Hinton
  • Bernard E. Harcourt

The Cost of Canonizing MLK

In these video interviews, Brandon M. Terry explains how MLK’s canonization has come at the expense of taking him seriously as a political thinker.

  • Brandon M. Terry
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