Making a Killing

Robin D. G. Kelley is the author of the award-winning biography Thelonious Monk, Race Rebels, Freedom Dreams, and numerous other acclaimed books on radical social movements, labor, music, Black intellectuals, and the African diaspora. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Hammer & Hope, Boston Review, and many other publications. A Guggenheim fellow and Freedom Scholar award recipient, Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History at the University of California, Los Angeles.