Dismantling Racial Capitalism: In Conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Steve Williams

Our Dismantling Racial Capitalism Series is back!

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the U.S. She is the author of Race for Profit and From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, editor of How We Get Free, and co-editor of Our History Has Always Been Contraband. Taylor is a co-founder of Hammer & Hope and was named one of The Root's 100 most influential African Americans in 2016.

Steve Williams is currently the national secretary of the North Star Socialist Organization. Trained as a community organizer, he worked for more than 20 years at POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) and the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness from the early 1990s until the 2010s. Afterward, Steve co-founded and served on the staff of LeftRoots. Steve has written several articles, a strategy toolkit, and co-authored a book, Towards Land, Work and Power: Charting a Path of Resistance to U.S.-led Imperialism.

Dismantling Racial Capitalism aspires to create space to develop and sharpen our understanding of racial capitalism, how it functions, its horrific consequences, and, most importantly, how we can challenge and dismantle it. We will bring together academics, organizers, policy-makers, students, and change-makers for a deeply-rooted examination of how racial capitalism drives inequality, exploitation, and destruction, and how we can catalyze change.