Where Do We Go From Here? A conversation with Bill Ayers and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

About the Event

In a time of endless war, institutional collapse, and escalating repression, what is to be done? Join us for a wide-ranging conversation with Bill Ayers and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.

This in-person event will include a reception with light bites after the program.

Speakers:

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and the co-founder of Hammer & Hope. Her book From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book, was recently published in an expanded second edition by Haymarket Books, with a new foreword by Angela Y. Davis. ​Her book Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership was a semi-finalist for the National Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and a former Contributing Opinion Writer for The New York Times. In 2021, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. With Colin Kaepernick and Robin D. G. Kelley, she edited Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies.

Her latest book is the expanded and updated edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, featuring a new introduction by Taylor and a powerful new interview with Angela Y. Davis. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at this event.

Bill Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), has written extensively about social justice and democracy, education and the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. His books include When Freedom is the Question, Abolition is the Answer, A Kind and Just Parent; Teaching toward Freedom; Fugitive Days: A Memoir; Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident; “You can’t fire the bad ones!” And 18 other Myths about Teachers, Teachers’ Unions, and Public Education; To Teach: The Journey, in Comics; Demand the Impossible!; and Race Course: Against White Supremacy.

This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work.