Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author and assistant professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University. A widely sought-after author and speaker, Taylor was named one of the 100 most influential African Americans in the United States by The Root in 2016. She is the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, which won the Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book in 2016. She is also the editor of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ nonfiction in 2018. Her writing has been published in the New York Times; the Los Angeles Times; Boston Review; Paris Review;Guardian; The Nation; Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society; Jacobin and beyond.
 “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation†– 2019 University of Southern Indiana Nelson Mandela Social Justice Day Keynote Address. This event is free and open to the public, and includes a moderated question and answer period following the address.
 6 p.m. Tuesday, February 26
USI Performance Center. A map of campus featuring the Performance Center can be found on the USI website at USI.edu/map.
PARKING: Media members are free to park in any available parking spot on campus.
NELSON MANDELA SOCIAL JUSTICE DAY: The mission of the Nelson Mandela Social Justice Day and Speaker Series is to raise dialogue at USI around current issues of human and civil rights, public service, and activism through diverse, dynamic, nationally, and internationally known public intellectuals and academics. Keynote speakers are augmented with a day of educational opportunities for the USI community. Previous speakers include Tia Oso, Dr. Cornel West, Tim Wise and Dr. Alex Lichtenstein.
