Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is a professor of History, Race and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global black history. He has appeared in, or consulted on, nearly two dozen documentaries, including the Oscar-nominated 13th and Slavery by Another Name. He is a frequent reviewer and media commentator in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Nation, National Public Radio, PBS Newshour, and MSNBC. He wrote the award-winning The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Harvard), and has received numerous honors including, Ebony Power 100, The Root 100 of Black Influencers, and Crain’s New York Business magazine 40 under 40.

Twitter: @KhalilGMuhammad