Keisha N. Blain
MSNBC Columnist
Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian and writer. She is a professor of Africana studies and history at Brown University and has written extensively about race, gender and politics in national and global perspectives. Her most recent book is “Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America.”
Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian and writer. She is a professor of Africana studies and history at Brown University and has written extensively about race, gender and politics in national and global perspectives. Her most recent book is “Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America.”
Latest from Keisha N. Blain
Why 'The Woman King' is a story that Americans need to see
Viola Davis' "The Woman King" is no fairy tale. It highlights African history few Americans know about.
Some think a movie about Emmett Till is unnecessary. Here's why they're wrong.
Emmett Till's lynching death was a major catalyst for the civil rights movement.
Whitewashing slavery isn't education; it's propaganda
The brutality of slavery is well documented in the historical record.
Juneteenth shouldn't be about Black people spending but about Black people getting paid
Juneteenth should cause us to think about how little wealth Black Americans have accrued.
For Black Americans, yesterday's housing discrimination is today's air pollution crisis
Redlining and environmental racism worked in tandem to harm Black communities.
Biden called white supremacy our biggest threat. After Buffalo, he must act like it.
Biden correctly identified the threat of white supremacy but hasn't done enough to combat it.
One answer by Ketanji Brown Jackson all but dooms affirmative action programs
Banning affirmative action would deepen the racial wealth gap.
Any attack on the Voting Rights Act is an attack on the legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer
Fannie Lou Hamer didn't need a good education to know that access to the ballot would mean more power.
'Frontline' film 'American Reckoning' gives a broader view of the civil rights fight
Mainstream narratives characterize the civil rights movement as only utilizing nonviolent tactics.
The Supreme Court killing affirmative action would have devastating consequences
Affirmative action policies have been under attack since their inception.
Pardon for Plessy v. Ferguson's Homer Plessy is an overdue admission of his heroism
In rejecting Plessy’s argument that the Jim Crow law implied Black people were inferior, the Supreme Court upheld the notion of “separate but equal.”
