Robin D. G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is a professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles. His books include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; and (coedited with Franklin Rosemont) Black, Brown and Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the African Diaspora. His essays have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the Nation, the New York Times, frieze, the New York Review of Books, Hammer and Hope, and the Boston Review, for which he serves as contributing editor.