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.

Articles

Reversing the Silence

Thelonious Monk lost (and found) in Paris.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Flowers for Farah

In her scholarship, mentoring, and activism, Farah Jasmine Griffin brings a praxis of radical love to an unequal academy.

Robin D. G. Kelley

“Fascism never disappears because people come to their senses.”

Robin D. G. Kelley on the midterm elections.

Robin D. G. Kelly, Deborah Chasman

Twenty Years of Freedom Dreams

Robin D. G. Kelley published his pathbreaking history of the Black radical imagination in 2002. Where are we two decades later?

Robin D. G. Kelley

Abolition Democracy’s Forgotten Founder

While W. E. B. Du Bois praised an expanding penitentiary system, T. Thomas Fortune called for investment in education and a multiracial, working-class movement.

Robin D. G. Kelley

The Invisible Hand of Greg Tate

Robin D. G. Kelley and Bongani Madondo honor the writer's life, work, and legacy.

Bongani Madondo, Robin D. G. Kelley

Why Cornel West’s Tenure Fight Matters

I wrote letters for West’s hire and renewal at Harvard. The school’s administrators completely miss the point of tenure.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Why Black Marxism, Why Now?

The threat of fascism has grown before our eyes. Black Marxism helps us to fight it with greater clarity, with a more expansive conception of the task before us, and with ever more questions.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Births of a Nation, Redux

Surveying Trumpland with Cedric Robinson

Robin D. G. Kelley

Getting to Freedom City

As a culture of protest took hold in 1960s LA, communities of color also prioritized a radical tradition of care, emphasizing mutual aid, community control, and the transformative power of art and politics.

Robin D. G. Kelley