# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor
# Generated: 2026-08-16T02:16:48.925Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/keeanga-yamahtta-taylor"
name: "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor"
slug: "keeanga-yamahtta-taylor"
description: "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an American academic, writer, and activist. She is a professor of African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016). For this book, Taylor received the 2016 Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book from the Lannan Foundation. She is a co-publisher of Hammer & Hope, an online magazine that began in 2023."
tagline: "American academic of African-American studies"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Keeanga-Yamahtta_Taylor_276674.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1950"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.11
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.981465333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KeeangaYamahtta"
    handle:    "KeeangaYamahtta"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.keeangataylor.com"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeanga-Yamahtta_Taylor"
    title: "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeanga-Yamahtta_Taylor"
    title: "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeanga-Yamahtta_Taylor"
    title: "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeanga-Yamahtta_Taylor"
    title: "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor"
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  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeanga-Yamahtta_Taylor"
    title: "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeanga-Yamahtta_Taylor"
    title: "Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30104171"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump