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Robin D. G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA, is author of Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.

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Arts in Society, Race

Ally: From Noun to Verb

Robin D. G. Kelley talks with musician Vijay Iyer about systems of oppression, the responsibility of artists, and how jazz sells proximity to blackness to white people.

Robin D. G. Kelley, Vijay Iyer

Arts in Society, Race

Sorry, Not Sorry

Boots Riley's new film roasts racial capitalism and issues an unapologetic call for revolution.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Editors' Note

Why I Support Boston Review

Boston Review deserves your support; they have earned it.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Race

Coates and West in Jackson

America loves pitting black intellectuals against each other, but today's activists need both Coates and West.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Politics, Race

One Year Later

We have to do much more than fight back, we have to fight for the world that could liberate and sustain us all when Trump is gone.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Politics, Race

Births of a Nation

Surveying Trumpland with Cedric Robinson

Robin D. G. Kelley

Race

What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?

A critique that anticipated the political currents of contemporary America.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Forum Response

Trump Says Go Back, We Say Fight Back

Economic anxieties are inseparable from whiteness and racism.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Politics, Race

What Does Black Lives Matter Want?

The ideas in the movement’s new manifesto would enrich our practice of democracy.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Forum Response

Robin D. G. Kelley's final response

I offer warm thanks for these thoughtful responses. Each advances this important conversation

Robin D. G. Kelley

Forum

Black Study, Black Struggle

The university is not an engine of social transformation. Activism is.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Politics, Race

Big, Glitzy Marches Are Not Movements

In 1963 and today, the real work happens elsewhere. 

Robin D. G. Kelley

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