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Mar 17, 2021 · Robin D.G. Kelley: I was a student of Cedric’s. He was on my dissertation committee. I was in awe of him. Reading “Black Marxism” that first time in 1984, it just blew my mind and changed my ...
Aug 31, 2022 · ROBIN D. G. KELLEY: Sure. You know, I thought about this in the wake of the 2020 protests, and also thinking about Occupy, which was a really significant moment in the history of the last 20 years ...
Jun 27, 2020 · Robin D.G. Kelley: Thank you. JS: So I want to begin just with the most recent events. We had Trump on Saturday giving this rally to six thousand people. They had a stadium that could have fit ...
Jul 8, 2020 · Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, UCLA Professor of African American Studies and Distinguished Professor of History & Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, was recently interviewed for Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill. In the podcast episode, Dr. Kelley provides historical context for the current abolitionist movement by discussing numerous key moments and issues, including the Tulsa race massacre, criminalization of community, racial capitalism, a third Reconstruction era, and social justice ...
Mar 20, 2021 · March 20, 2021 Vinson Cunningham L.A. Times. Printer friendly. Robin D.G. Kelley, Marc Monaghan CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Robin D.G. Kelley is, for my money, the great historian of our era. He has written groundbreaking works about, among other things, Alabama’s Communist Party during the Great Depression; the life of Thelonious Monk; and the visions ...
Aug 10, 2020 · Robin D.G. Kelley His books include Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press, 2009); Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (Harvard University Press, 2012); Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (Beacon Press, 2002); Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class (Free Press, 1994); Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!:
May 5, 2022 · Courtesy of George Yancy and Robin Kelley. Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! “I don’t believe universities are inherently sites of opposition, though spaces have been created in the past and present for oppositional work,” historian Robin D.G. Kelley remarked in our recent ...
