Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian and writer. Previously associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh (2017–2022), she is now professor of Africana studies and history at Brown University. Blain is an opinion columnist for MSNBC, and her writing has been featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Nation, Foreign Affairs, and more.
Blain is the author of the multi-prize-winning book Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), and the coeditor (with Ibram X. Kendi) of the #1 New York Times bestseller Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 (Penguin Random House/One World, 2021). Her latest book, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America (Beacon Press, 2021), was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and was selected as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Her project, “A Global Struggle: How Black Women Led the Fight for Human Rights,” offers a new history of human rights framed by the ideas and activism of Black women in the United States from 1865 to the present.
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